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“Warning from a black destiny to the mankind”
by @raffitokatlian

68 x 53 x 60 cm | Bronze EA1

”We lost our sight. Then chose artifical guidance.
Wars.
Destruction.
Pollution.
Little by little, we lost everything.
Our bodies deform.
Our sight disappears.
And at the end, we return to loyalty to guide us.
Lead by an artificial leash toward an unknown destination.
Maybe this is not the future anymore.
Maybe it has already begun.” taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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@raffitokatlian
On view till October 24th. taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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“We destroy what was never ours” by renowned by Raffi Tokatlian

205 x 145 cm | Oil on canvas

There is a beautiful deserted garden about one hour walking distance from my mountain house.
For thirteen years, I visited it twice a year.
It was built by human hands.
A small amphitheater.
Huge trees.
A river passing through it.
Over the years,
I created my own mythology around the place.
Maybe an old wealthy man built all of this for his lover..
but died before ever telling her.
Today.
I decided to visit it again,
But on my way there,
I was shocked.
The beautiful fields, the apple trees, the greenery filled with insects and butterflies.
All gone.
Instead, more than thirty giant machines were tearing the earth apart.
Rocks hitting iron.
Ugly sounds.
Chaos.
The lands left behind by villagers from their ancestors were disappearing forever.
I could not even reach the garden.
Now I am sitting in my own garden writing this.
And suddenly I realized something uncomfortable.
Thirteen years ago,
I did the same.
Maybe we were not sent here to protect this planet.
Maybe we were sent to destroy it.
A planet that was never truly ours.

We destroy what was never ours. taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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2 days ago

“Volcanic masses” by renowned artist Raffi Tokatlian

Bronze EA2 | 80 x 82 x 28 cm

This sculpture received First Prize at the Sursock Museum, 31st Salon d’Automne, Beirut, 2011–2012. Also, One of the editions is acquired by MoMa Yerevan.

“He betrayed her.
She knew
She forgave him.
But for her, it was never a game.
For him, it became too late.
He tried everything.
Submission.
Obedience.
Even offering her his own heart.
But some things, once dead inside us, never return.
They remain beside us like spirits. “ taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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🎥Artist Spotlight🎥

Presented by Maya Art Space, @sayed.waked.7 (b. 1976, Egypt) is a contemporary Egyptian glass sculptor. Waked graduated from the Faculty of Specific Art Education at Cairo University in 1998, and is currently an active member of the Egyptian Fine Arts Syndicate. Raised in rural Egypt, his early connection to nature continues to shape his artistic vision.

Working exclusively with glass since 2007, Waked explores the material’s symbolic and emotional potential. His sculptures move between abstraction and figuration, using transparency, light, and color to evoke themes of human connection, transformation, and inner balance. Glass becomes a metaphor for both vulnerability and resilience in the human experience.

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“Learn how to breathe” by renowned artist Raffi Tokatlian

187 x 137 cm | Oil on canvas

Polluted minds.
Polluted bodies.
We cannot breathe.
We cannot think.
What are these tears coming out of our bodies?
Nobody wants them.
Nobody cares.
Take them back.
As long as life exists around us, begging will not help.
We deserve to live, only if we learn how to breathe.
Do not try to find a meaning.
Keep that for human beings.
Instead, learn from other beings.
Learn to respect the same creator of the insect and the human being.

Because perhaps the moment we decided that one creation was more important than another,
was the moment we forgot how to breathe. taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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4 days ago

Texte d’Edgard Davidian

“Raffi Tokatlian: Surprenante plongée dans l’odyssée humaine
Retiré pour quelques années dans sa demeure à Fakra, en haute montagne libanaise au contrefort du mont Sannine, pour réfléchir, mûrir ses pensées, observer et créer, Raffi Tokatlian, artiste-peintre multidisciplinaire est de retour sous la lumière.
Il est actuellement avec ses nouvelles œuvres et quelques-unes anciennes, dont des sculptures remarquables, qui ont fait date et marqué les esprits, sous les spots de l’espace Maya art Spacer au centre-ville à l’avenue Foch.
Premier regard renouvelé sur ces statues en bronze ou en résine sur leur piédestal (mélange de Donatello, Rodin et Giacometti), qui défient l’équilibre et allient grâce, énigme, légèreté, souplesse et élasticité des muscles.
A cet univers s’ajoute aujourd’hui la présence retentissante de méga toiles où la texture est un aimant magnétique autant qu’une vision plus portée aux interrogations profondes à un univers en dérive et chaos qu’a des réponses qu’on voudrait rassurantes ou lénifiantes. Pour cet impénitent lanceur d’alerte, respectueux de la nature, écologiste intransigeant et grand ami des bêtes (domestiques ou pas !) le message est clair. Il faut un sursaut de conscience et un réveil imminent avant un désastre inévitable avec une société insatiable de surconsommation…
Raffi Tokatlian fait feu de tout bois car il est entre songe et cauchemar, beauté absolue et hideuse laideur, entre guerre féroce et paix sereine. Il puise, sans frontière ni limite, son inspiration de tous les mythes. Avec des couleurs sans vulgarité ni fadeur, il emprunte des images saisissantes, à la texture veloutée et lisse d’une peau de serpent (technique imparable acquise récemment en Espagne) à un surréalisme et un onirisme vénéneux et somptueux. Par-delà un univers baroque ou gothique, voilà une plongée, une visite éclair, sans barrière ni crainte du conventionnel et du conformisme, à tous les chemins de traverse d’une odyssée contemporaine, mais aussi de tous les temps… “
- EDGARD DAVIDIAN taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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4 days ago

Glimpses from @raffitokatlian opening exhibition ”The First Step Back” taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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5 days ago

“The place without sky” by renowned artist Raffi Tokatlian

Oil on canvas | 190 x 140 cm

“After moving to my mountain house twelve years ago,
I made the first sketch of this painting.
I was happy. At last, I had found solitude.
Yet something inside me never stopped reminding me how beautiful this land had been before I destroyed part of it.
And before so many others did the same. Some, like me.
Others, for business.
In this painting there is no land. There is no sky. It is an unknown place. Perhaps it
exists only inside our own creations.
The figures seem alive. Yet they are already disappearing.
We believe we are the exception. That we will remain.
The truth is, we disappeared before they did.
We became a spirit, which is also one of our creations.
They do not choose what they will become. But we do.
After we are gone, what remains?
Our writings... or our fears?”

The exhibition will remain on view till October 24th.

Gallery opening hours:
Monday-Saturday | 11:00AM-6:00PM taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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Strength and fragility, movement and stillness — Raffi Tokatlian’s sculpture holds a striking beauty in its tension, as if the figure were suspended between balance and flight. taken in Downtown Beirut by @maya.artspace

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7 days ago

Mina Nassef at 1-54 London.

Maya Art Space is pleased to present Nassef’s playful and surreal visual world, where familiar objects take on unexpected identities and the boundaries between reality and imagination are gently disrupted.

📍 Somerset House, London
📅 15–18 October 2026
📍 Booth W8

#MinaNassef #MayaArtSpace #154ArtFair #154London #ContemporaryArt by @maya.artspace

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Ibrahim Khattab at 1-54 London.

Maya Art Space is pleased to present Khattab’s vibrant and layered practice at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, where colour, memory and imagination come together in richly expressive compositions.

📍 Somerset House, London
📅 15–18 October 2026
📍 Booth W8

#ibrahimkhattab #MayaArtSpace #154ArtFair #154London #ContemporaryArt AfricanContemporaryArt SomersetHouse LondonArtWeek by @maya.artspace

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