Thabat - Persistence
Thabat - Persistence
By Georges Haddad
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Item details:
▸ Features: Unique Piece▸ Art technique: Sculpture
▸ Dimensions (cm): 107.0 x 107.0 x 13.0
▸ Net Weight (kg): 10.0
At first glimpse, it may not mean much for the observer. Maybe just a bunch of scattered pieces of neon tubes. One must take a moment of focus and reflection to realize that these fragmented neons still read BEIRUT. Created after the port explosion, this piece embodies the city’s slashed landscape and its enduring, defiant glow.
Neon:
Dimensions: 95 cm x 80 cm
Color: warm white 2700°K
Diameter: 8 mm
Linear part length: 500 cm
Transformer: 10,000 V – 30 mA
Mounted on a wooden box
Box:
Circular wood box
Diameter: 107.5 cm
Depth: 13 cm
Color: black matte and white glossy
About Georges Haddad
Georges Haddad graduated in advertising from the Lebanese University before beginning his career in a post-production house. Since 2008, he has been dedicated to the neon industry, mastering its techniques and exploring its expressive potential. Over the years, he has created neon works for prominent Lebanese artists such as Raed Yassin, Sirine Fattouh, Vartan Avakian, and Mounira El Qadiri.
For Haddad, neon is not merely a commercial product but a medium unlike any other — capable of conveying human emotions with unique subtlety and flexibility. Even as the industry faces commercial decline, he continues to reveal neon’s capacity to embody both ideas and feelings, challenging its reduction to signage and reclaiming it as an art form.
His practice extends beyond concept and design to include imagination, drawing, computer graphics, and hands-on craftsmanship. It is also inherently collaborative, involving carpenters, metalworkers, and electricians. Each project reflects a broader artisanal process, highlighting the crucial yet often overlooked role of craft and craftsmanship in contemporary society.