The Green Art Gallery Dubai to Feature Syrian painter Ziad Dalloul

Written by Corinne Westinghouse Friday, 11 November 2011 22:57

Dubai.- The Green Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the UAE for renowned Syrian painter Ziad Dalloul. Organized in collaboration with Atassi Gallery, Damascus, the exhibition opens on November 13th and will be on view until January 5th 2012. A reception will be held on the 13th of November from 7 - 9 pm in the presence of the artist. The show will feature several large-scale paintings including a triptych, which was featured in this year’s Sharjah Biennial, works on paper, and a series of etchings from the artist book entitled “The Book of Cities“ made in collaboration with Syrian poet Adonis. Considered to be among the most accomplished Arab painters and printmakers, Dallloul’s works merge contemporary disciplines with traditional materials such as ink, sepia and handmade paper.

The subjects of his work involve stagnant, commonplace domestic objects such as chairs and tables, which are placed on the foreground of landscapes depicting nature’s virility in some form. The landscapes depicted in the works, often recollections of those found in his birthplace Syria, are however accompanied by characteristic dark masses of color. Through exploring the dichotomy between that which is still and that which is ever-changing Dalloul challenges convenient definitions associated with both the Orient and the Occident while simultaneously referencing art history’s relationship to still-life. Ziad Dalloul (b.1953) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus in 1977. He  went on to study at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he now works and lives. His work  has  been widely exhibited in Europe and the Middle East including the Sharjah Biennial (2011),  L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2005) and the Shoman Foundation in Amman (1997).


Green Art Gallery was founded in 1995 and was amongst the first galleries to exhibit Arab art in Dubai. The Gallery became a primary establishment to nurture the city's earliest art collector base by promoting pioneering artists from across the Middle East and North Africa. In 2008, leveraging its long and rich history in the market, Green Art Gallery also began to represent and showcase contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. In this manner the Gallery would become one of the few spaces whose knowledge and expertise has spanned the Arab art movement from modernism and will continue to promote the newest tendencies in the regional contemporary art practices. In December 2010, Green Art Gallery moved to its new 3,000 square feet space in Al Serkal Avenue in al Quoz, the new up-and-coming art district in Dubai. The new space reflects the Gallery’s commitment to its artists and its focus on curatorial programming from the region. Amongst the artist represented by the gallery are Jaber Al Azmeh, Shadi Habib Allah, Kamrooz Aram, Hakim Ghazali, Ahmad Moualla, Laila Muraywid, Hale Tenger and Nazif Topcuoglu. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.gagallery.com/

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