The night in the day (al layl finnahar)

During the twentieth century, artists working in cities across Asia engaged with modernity in ways that were both related to an independent from what was occurring at that time in Europe. Madi was one of a group of Lebanese artists who, living in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, participated actively in the evolution of mid-century abstract painting. He was also an important contributor to the Hurufiyya movement, a movement that began in the 1950s and saw Arabic letterforms as generative elements of modern abstract art.