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The Spiritual Edifices of Islam
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The Spiritual Edifices of Islam is a collection of graphite drawings by the artist Wahbi Al-Hariri. The Spiritual Edifices of Islam The Classicist Wahbi Al-Hariri has frequently been heralded as a classicist. And what made him so, above all else, is that he was a true master of composition. For composition is not simply about where things are, but equally as important, where they are not. His masterful and truly brilliant compositions force a delicate tension among various elements, evoking emotions for reasons unknown to us. Retrospective Many consider the thirty-three works that comprise The Spiritual Edifices of Islam as the crowning achievement of Wahbi Al-Hariri’s long career as an artist. But the eighteen retrospective works that accompany the Edifices introduce the viewer to the broad artistic range mastered by this gifted artist who very early on in his career composed concertos in pastels and entire symphonies in watercolors and in oil. What the retrospective does not tell us is that Al-Hariri was also an accomplished sculptor, a successful architect, a talented photographer, and an avid student of history. The Collection With the encouragement of his friends and wife, Widad Marachi, Al-Hariri travelled from Spain to China to identify and document the most significant historic mosques of the world. Despite a four-year battle with cancer, he was able to produce in record time a body of work that features over forty historic mosques. The collection known as The Spiritual Edifices of Islam, was completed with the assistance of his son Mokhless Al-Hariri, and embodies the final evolution of his distinctive classical yet contemporary style. Exhibit trust The collection is exhibited by The Georgetown Design Group Exhibits Trust in Washington D.C.GDG Exhibits 
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