"UTOPIA" THE BABYLON SYNDROME
From the Series of  "TEMPLES"
2009-2011


From the Series of  "RED IN THE WHITE DESERT"
2008- 2009

"UTOPIA" THE BABYLON SYNDROME
2006-2008

Painting
Acrylic on wood board, 2000

Painting - Still Life  1990 - 2002

Mixed Media   1997-2000

Assemblage, Mixed-Media   1994 - 1996

Mixed Media   1991- 1998

Painting   1990 - 1998

Mixed Media  1989

Drawing, Portrait
32x24 cm, 2000 - 2003

Drawing
48x33 cm , 2002

Mixed Medium 
56x38 cm , 2003

Colored Ink on Cardboard
56 X 38 cm,  1996

Portrait - Gouache on Cardboard
24x17 cm,  1994

Water Color on Paper
24x17 cm,  1992

Mixed Medium on Paper
48x33 cm,  1992

Structure
1993- 2009


Le Tourbillon -  1995 

Conceptuel structure: computers, key boards, monitors, printers, scanners, chairs, hard drives, wiring connections, floppy disks, CDrom, telephones...
and other electronical stuff mounted on a metallic cyclonic structure, (gray color).
height: approx 7 m Diameter: approx 4 m , El Mina, Tripoli - Lebanon
Near the sea in Mina, Tripoli, stands a work of art composed of 70 computer components and 40 chairs. The jumble of monitors, key boards, chairs, hard drives, printers and wiring connections, all caught in a cyclonic curve of grey cement, rises seven meters up into the sea-salted air.
The artist, Mario Saba, says it is a ''conceptual sculpture'' intended to comment on those amazing tools of communication that increasingly penetrate every corner of our lives. For want of a better interpretation, I would say it was a technological tower of Babel designed for worship in the new millennium.
Article by Gabriela Schaubs: Hard-Hitting Tools of Communication Daily Star, June 6, 1997

Installation


The Knowledge Tree
2010, Katzen Museum, Washington DC 
2011  MENASArt Fair

The Temple, from the concept of UTOPIA THE BABYLON SYNDROME.

Saba uses metal, electronic appliances, video and sound to create utopias of war that reference ancient myths, in this instance the story of the city of Babylon.

Influenced by the passing time and its ways of putting real and virtual traces in our memories as well as physical traces on the surrounding we live in.

The five elements of the installation:
- New tree of knowledge assembled from a vast variety of our time production, from usual to finest high tech.
- Projected symbols, signs and language reflecting ideas and illusions
- Different kind of sounds, music and speeches.
- Icons made from collage of prints and mixed-media
- Ruins of dreams and ambitions...

& You, I and all of us  called humans (now)….. Mario Saba


The End Of The Beginning - 2000
Trace of a civilization marked by architectural remains.
Hillock of objects: doors, portals, bell, windows, smithy ironwork, bed, table, stool, chairs, ancient coffer, candles, radios, CD Rom, floppy disks, rope, palette and paint tubes, brushes, nails, ancient instruments, and tools,.....


Studies - 2004 

Conceptual art installation,  International Fair, Tripoli - Lebanon. 
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