The esteemed Galerie Janine Rubeiz is adding a little colour to the art scene this November with a lively solo show from Beirut artist Alain Vassoyan. ‘In this exhibition, the character behaves with its own construction as the animal would do with the nature that surrounds him...' says Vassoyan in his artist’s statement. 'This construction serves him as a refuge, the character mingles with it, and its architecture the extension of his own body.'

Vassoyan, who previously showed at Janine Rubeiz in 2009 with a series of personal works entitled ‘Djoudou City’, will transform the gallery space into a ‘hybrid city’, using a mix of sculpture, sounds and video. ‘Bird’s Maze’ takes Vassoyan’s trademark sculptural installations on an exploration into the worlds of the human and the animal, the organic and the mechanic. While the forms are almost comic at times, each work is thoughtfully executed by Vassoyan, who has previously exhibited at various collective and solo shows in Beirut and Montreal, and Hyogo Prefectoral Museum in Kobe, Japan.