Reports | 25 05 2020
The British National Museum possessed two works of the visual artist Khalil Yunis about the Syrian Revolution, the Syrian artist said that the ownership process took almost a year and a half, pointing to the importance of the presence of Syria's name in a place like the British Museum for all Syrians.
In a telephone interview with Rozana, the Syrian artist Younis said "The British National Museum expressed interest in owning a number of Syrian plastic works, specifically about the Syrian revolution."
He added: the works that has been owned by the museum is part of the art collection called "the revolution of 2011," which he began painting since the beginning of the revolution, and did not over yet, but he is still boosting it with other new works permanently.
As for the two works which were owned by the British Museum, the first one name is "I am from Syria," and the other named "Saw" and the both are talking about facts and real people and events have occurred since the beginning of the outbreak of the revolution, and still occur even today.
The visual artist noted to "the importance of Syria's name presence as an ancient country, in a place like the British Museum, for all the Syrians now and for future generations as well, for what it holds of documentation and the identity and history."
Yunus also noted that it was not him the only the Syrian artist whose works was owned by the museum, but it possessed works of other Syrian artists, like “Mohammed Omran” and “Muzaffar Salman”.
He pointed to the existence of many Syrian Antiquities at the British Museum, but they were the first Syrian visual artists who were honored by containing their works in the museum.