Farid text Liberation

Selections from multiple series of drawings (in graphite, gouache, pencil), and lithographs, prefigure his later works on color and geometric abstraction. While Haddad’s early works evince his interest in minimalism and constructivism, they also reveal his own reckoning with the political sentiment in Lebanon and the Arab world during that time, as expressed in the titles of his works: LIBERATION, OPPOSITION, FLAG, AFFILIATION, …  Those words are rendered typographically through stenciling, and are combined with symbols, e.g., a French flag, a black square, and rough gouache and graphite rendering.