Hakim Jama'in is one of Jordan's most prominent contemporary artists. He studied drawing and anatomy at the Pietro Vannucci Academy in Perugia, Italy, then graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 1995, he obtained a high diploma from the Cova School of Art in Milan, and in 2003 he graduated from the Royal Academy in Milan. The Hague, Netherlands, majoring in engraving and printing, where he also studied architecture and design.
He published eight hand-printed books using engraving techniques on lithograph, zinc, wood, and silk screen. He held 11 personal exhibitions and participated in many international exhibitions.
Regarding his experience, the Jordanian critic Hassan Dasa believes that Hakim Jamaben is considered a graphic magician and one who opens up amazement with color. He enchants you. He is accustomed to delving into the experience of magic. This is because he started and continues to the present exhibition, with a dialectical vision in understanding beauty, beyond modernity, and aesthetic philosophy, which goes beyond contemporary times.
“Hakim” captures the physical movement of the falls of the soul itself (..) the soul in the identification of longing for fragmented encounters in the connotations of places, terrain, colors, and even trees and stones, all the way to the carpet of the wind, as “Hakim”, the trace of color and line, arranges the moment of aesthetic fall, Sinbad is aligned with a color heritage that is free from the constants of emerging from a state of refusal to fade, to the debate of mastery of the state of eternal travel between the apparent and the hidden.
Dasa continues: We stand in bewilderment at Hakim’s abilities in the “Landstones of the Soul” exhibition. He took us amid the shadows of lines, grass petals, and dust from the heavens. He supports our vision to enter into a dialogue. Landfills of the Soul, which are the destiny of life. We touch the surface of the paintings with complete freedom, exchanging places between color space and aesthetic significance. And other rare spiritual ones. Here is a sage who does not descend without being careful to understand narratives related to creation, cultural heritage, and sacred religious transcendence. At first glance, the apparent edge of color, the edge of the knife, and the edge of aesthetic anxiety push us towards an endless rotation between love and stability.
When you live in the moment with a wise man, you are thrown into the agony of trying to settle down. In the paintings, there is an approach that gives you the freedom to travel, and you say to yourself:
-I turn around in the pictures, preventing myself from falling. This was a survival card. Who can challenge the landings of the soul? It covers me, it is the color of the angelic soul, it protects us according to the principles of beauty from the astonishment of evil and dangers, and keeps the power of sin away from us.
In the initial experiences, what I know of Hakim’s plastic wisdom, that rush towards a specificity that has its own aesthetic structure, whether in graphics, drawing, or collage, is an artist who took on roles in order to lead us in our cultural weakness, revive our frustrations, comfort the troughs of souls in the moment of ban, in Adversity over which beauty triumphed.
A wise man, with a personal human experience, wants in this important exhibition to whisper to us the colors, the magic touches, and some of the frills of the soul, which wavered if we fell due to weakness, hatred, war, or disease.
Al-Hakim summarizes our cultural aesthetic image in three strokes of the brush that traced the depths of the soul, in words drawn as if they were a legacy of the Nile River, the serenity of the ford of the Jordan River, and the serenity of time in Luxor and Petra: “What respect, what love, what trust this depression does not deserve.” from U.S! It is a call to respect their existence, to love because of their feelings, and to trust in their protection... All that descends is a colorful escape, in which is the poet and the lover... when he emerges from the sky of isolation.