Ziad Dalloul born in Syria in 1953, started painting and writing at a very young age. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 1977 then studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Dalloul has held solo and group exhibitions in Europe and various Arab countries. He has produced several print portfolios with Syrian poet Adonis. In 1994, he was awarded the Gold Medal at the International Egyptian Printing Triennial. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1984.
“In colour and through colour, Ziad Dalloul travels towards objects and within them. He moves among its gradations and layers, exploring its mysteries.
His colors do not merely question nature but also carry a preoccupation with research—a singular and particular preoccupation through which the senses acquire intellect, and matter has feeling. The latter seems to be inhabited by ghosts of his childhood, by the smells of its fields, its clouds, by memories and traces, as well as a climate through which seeps air, water, fire and earth. As if, in fact, color becomes personified.”
Adonis
Syrian poet
https://www.nabadartgallery.com/?q=node/68
"Painting a landscape on one's canvas is not an end-in-itself, says Ziad Dalloul. You have to step into the landscape to see it from the inside, deconstruct it in order to reconstruct it in accordance with our fantasies and memory which is inseparable from the representation of any work of art.
Based on a pantheist concept of painting, where nature is everything, Dalloul rejects the <Nature morte> [<Still life>, or literally <Dead Nature>] Instead he prefers the expression <Nature silencieuse> [<Silent nature>] taken from the Arabic. Silent like the objects laid out in this studio right in the centre of the city, yet treated as a garden. No logs in the fireplace, but climbing plants spreading out across the walls. Squash, pomegranate and nuts scattered on the tables are to be found on the canvas in the form of hatchings or patches of color.
<Things at rest> [<Le repos des choses>] explains the master of the house.
Ziad Dalloul arranges nature so as to render it accessible to nostalgic dreamers who yearn for a planet unspoilt by man."
- Excerpt from 'Things at Rest' by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Ziad Dalloul - Célébration des absents, published by Galerie Claude Bernard, 2015
From The Khalid Shoman Foundation. Darat al Funun Amman,Jordan website
http://daratalfunun.org/?artist=ziad-dalloul
http://daratalfunun.org/?event=artist-talk-ziad-dalloul-bady-dalloul
During the visit the artist presented Ibrahimi collection with a copy of his book and one of his artwork which he sketched during the visit .
Then Ibrahimi collection arange for a dinner in honor of the artist and his family which was also attended by Writer May Muzafar .
