Strokes of brilliance

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Pedro Barbosa is a Brazilian art collector gaining a reputation as an aspiring trendsetter in the international art scene as he amasses pieces from young and trendy artists, primarily fraom Brazil. Last year, he decided to go global and started collecting from artists around the world, among them 29-year-old emerging Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet. More and more eyes, both at home and beyond, are turning to Lebanon’s local talent. Fueled by support from local galleries as well as a host of private institutions looking to replace the void left by the lack of public sector backing, Lebanese talent is increasingly gaining recognition this year. Bringing politics to art Represented by the Qarantina based Sfeir-Semler gallery, Tabet’s name popped onto the local scene in the spring of 2013 following his solo exhibition, “The Shortest Distance Between Two Points” which retraced Lebanon’s historic role in the transportation of oil through the story