Celebrations of the Absents

Overview

Considered among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Ziad Dalloul has been captivated with natures mortes, or still life, noting that the English word describes his practice more faithfully than the French one. His representational language proposes a re-scaling where inert objects take on a new life when placed in a landscape not conventionally their own.

The depths and perspectives are equally singular, molded from overlaying levels between his signature dark mass and vaporous backgrounds, as if almost washed. His earthen palette, recalling memories of the lands of his childhood in Syria and Algeria, is the artist’s spiritual reckoning of thinking the past in the present.

Presented by Atassi Gallery, Damascus, Syria


April 2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10