Project Description

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