Mohamed Al Jaloos passe le plus clair de son temps à peindre et à repeindre des toiles qu’il a conçu auparavant. Il détruit des formes qu’il a créées pour mieux en explorer les profondeurs, tant qu’elles sont encore accessibles. Un détail manquant l’y attire inexorablement. Ces yeux sont incapables de se détourner de ce détail…

My art has enjoyed an interesting evolution over the years, guided by my absolute faith in abstraction. To me, abstraction is returning to Nature as a reference, and it is a joy that I practice in everything I do. The various subtle elements of this abstraction has had a clear presence in my art since…

In this exhibition, I look for a relationship which has remained as an ambiguousarea through many years, between a past when I painted faces which were familiar to me surrounded by squares from all sides, then soon these faces turned outof their strict geometric dimensions toa free space for a particular body which does not…

Dear Mohammad, In each new methodical shift, you grant me the words which I did not tell you as if I borrow them from our mutual past. It is a friendshipduring which you’ve been the title of faithfulness. I stretch out my hand to your painting then it is hit by air that takes me…

Ali Rasheed Message Body-related Contours, by this title the Formative Artist Mohammad Jaloos wanted to relate the elementary facts of the human being and his speculativemethod in a celebration where the Artist introduces his visual memory, where the body is a contourand the painting is an imaginary womb, where the artist spreads out roominess which…

My Dear Friend, I was very happy that you showed me part of the works of your new exhibition; it was a pure pleasure Oh the painter of pure pleasure, as the critic Farouq Yousef likes to call you. During our recent conversation, my attention was not drawn to your talk about the body in…

Mohammad Al-Jaloos: The painter of the pure pleasure By: Farouq Yousef Mohammad Al-Jaloos spends most of his time erasing what he has previously painted. He dismantles shapes that he has imagined in order to infiltrate through its depths which are still soft. Something missing in the painting that continues to drag him towards these depths.…

By Ica Wahbeh AMMAN – Mohammad Jaloos’ squares look like the multiplying cells of a zygote that later become life, or like myriad windows, onto the outside world or into the soul. He has been painting them for a while now because they give him “inside peace and balance or form, lines and colour”. They…

By Ica Wahbeh AMMAN – Documenting towns for posterity is normally the job of ethnographers, historians, archaeologists or maybe photographers. The reason they do it is to restore history and recreate lifestyles, immortalise times or secure information for future generations. Painter Mohammad Jaloos had that and other reasons in mind when he took it upon himself…

by Mohammed Abu Zreiq Palestinian artist, Mohammed Jaloos’ artistic compulsion is to employ his skills as weapon and viewer as target. Some of these works may not necessarily represent the core of his art, but most of them are based on pure artistic vision. This diversity creates an opportunity to coax the best out of…