12 November 2019
Bahrain Culture Authority Honors Abdullah Youssef’s Exhibition “ Retrospective”
Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities, in honor of talented Bahrain artist Abdullah Youssef, inaugurates an outstanding full-fledged art exhibition titled “ Abdullah Youssef- a Retrospective”, on 13 November 2019 at 7:00 pm at the Art Center. The exhibition will run until January 2020.
The exhibition showcases an array of art experiences by Bahraini artist Abdullah Yousif, by highlighting major milestones in his career starting with visual arts and how it lead to the world of theatre, how the life on stage took him to television and how radio came to complete the circle. Artist Abdullah Yousef directed many theater shows, such Actors Throwing Stones, Al-Baraha, “The Path of Justice”, children's plays “Homeland of the Bird” and “Laila and the Wolf” in 1982, “The Story of Bobby” 1983, “The Girl of Al-Nokhetha” 1086, “Hadeeth al-Deera” 1988 The children's play “Batout” in 1992, 1998, and a play in the State of Kuwait in 1999 entitled “Santron Bantrun”. In 1997, artist Abdullah Youssef designed and executed the joint exhibition “Faces”, a major cultural event gathering artist painter, Ibrahim Bu-Saad, the poet Qassem Haddad and the outstanding musician Khaled El Sheikh. He also directed a play of the same title in the same year about the poems of the poet Qassem Haddad. In 1999, he also won the Best Scenography Award for the play “Day of Our Fellows” by Saadallah Wannous, which was presented at the 6th GCC Theater Festival in Muscat. In 2001, he directed the series “Lail Al Banader” by Salah TV Bahrain, as well as “Aweisha” during 2003 and 2004, and recently designed the logo and decor of Bahrain International Music Festival, in 2004.
Multi-disciplined Bahrain artist Abdullah Youssef was born in 1948, is also founding member of Awal Theater and the Bahrain Society of Fine Arts. He is a theater and television director and a plastic artist who has participated in many internal and external exhibitions and won several first prizes. He is also a theater and television producer, commentator and presenter of radio and television programs, serials and dramas in Bahrain and Kuwait.
