Jamil Malaaib... The era of painting and the city over half a century

Al Anbaa: “Journeys of Cities” is the title artist Jamil Malaaib gave his ongoing new exhibition at Galerie Janine Rubeiz in Beirut until the end of this month. Although the paintings are fragmented scenes, some seem like a historical accumulation, like an overlapping epic; nevertheless, the artist attributes them, one after another, to a particular country. Thus…