Halaby’s first dedicated exhibition in London showcases themes around which the artist hasworked extensively, and for which he has become known: the celebrating of the passing of theseasons, and the olive groves that characterise man’s relationship with nature, civilisation, andthe ancient world.But as the exhibition’s title hints, there are new homages at play in Halaby’s visiting of familiarthemes. Shakespeare’s famous poem laments with aching pathos the passing of time through thechanging of the seasons. A metaphor for the inexorable fading of youth and the perennial urgeto immortalise it in new generations, it is a masterpiece of expression which for Halaby resonatesdeeply with his own artistic intent.
“Shakespeare may or may not have realised that his words were his ‘children’; and that everything he wrote—his own body of work—is the undying summer he left us,” says Halaby. “I would like to believe that the summer I will leave behind is my art.”
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