Caty Cordahi
Caty Cordahi offers a collection of inviting and pleasing works. By showing expressionist representations which are full of local individuals from Oman and the UAE, easily recognized from their local attire, Caty generates in the viewers' mind a series of questions pertaining to the identity and diversity of the local populations and the relationship between local and expatriate populations.
At the outset, Caty simply aimed at immortalizing common and touristic photos into a piece of art. To achieve this, she decided to incorporate some of her pictures (of people, landscapes, and urban views) into her canvases, and build expressionism around and over them. Many of her paintings of Oman and the UAE work therefore in layers, with selected photos underneath colours, shades, and textures.
A French artist now residing in Oman, Caty Cordahi attended Fine Art classes from 1993 to 1998. She was also studying in an expressionism studio (ATEXFO) during the same period. After extensive practice in the years that followed and relocation to Oman more recently, Caty decided to translate her perception of her new host region onto the canvas.
List of past exhibitions:
Muscat, Oman
March/April 2017: Personal exhibition in the French Omani cultural center.
October 2016: City Seasons Hotel Muscat
From June 2016: Al Madina art Gallery
Dubai, UAE
September 2014: Personal exhibition in Alliance Française gallery
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2012: Personal exhibition in Lotus compound
France
1994: Show of artistic creation – Chinon (France)
1997: Personal exhibition– Paris
1998 to 2000: Art & Creation market (all Sundays in Montparnasse)– Paris
1998: Salon d’Automne de la Peinture Contemporaine – Paris
1998: Public sales of contemporary art in Hôtel des Ventes de Drouot – Paris
1998: Exhibition in Galerie Matignon - Paris
1999: Exhibition in Galerie l’Area – Paris
Belgium
1994: Art & Creation market – Trott’art – Bruxelles
Germany
1997: Personal exhibition – Freiburg
2000: Personal exhibition (Colors from Paris) in Galerie in der Freibank – Fürth
2000: Exhibition in the head office of Siemens (Mécénat)
United Kingdom
2003: Personal exhibition in private art studio - London