{"id":63986,"date":"2025-10-02T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=63986"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:37:35","slug":"wassef-boutros-ghali-a-retrospective-1965-2016","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/wassef-boutros-ghali-a-retrospective-1965-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective (1965-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the canvases of Wassef Boutros-Ghali, colours informed by a knowledge of unrelenting Mediterranean sunlight flood the flat plane of the canvas; architectural forms emerge, collide and re-engineer themselves without a narrative. Boutros-Ghali\u2019s art speaks to the pure and unrestricted physicality of painting, and his compositions reflect a meticulous yet openhearted response to the human condition \u2013 marvels of reason buoyed by a lifetime\u2019s worth of lyricism.<\/p>\n<p>Wassef Boutros-Ghali passed away in March 2023, aged 98. He was painting right up until his death.<\/p>\n<p>To 5 November. The launch of the <em>Wassef Boutros-Ghali: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9<\/em> published by Skira will be held in conjunction with the opening.<\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Wassef Boutros-Ghali, Horizon VI (2000)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In the canvases of Wassef Boutros-Ghali, colours informed by a knowledge of unrelenting Mediterranean sunlight flood the flat plane of the canvas; architectural forms emerge, collide and re-engineer themselves without a narrative. Boutros-Ghali\u2019s art speaks to the pure and unrestricted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/wassef-boutros-ghali-a-retrospective-1965-2016\/\" title=\"Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective (1965-2016)\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-63986","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63986"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=63986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}