Plastic artist Ramadan El-Nazhan: Art is not committed to repeating and simulating reality

Damascus-Sana

The plastic artist Ramadan Al-Nazhan sees that the artist is distinguished by his thinking, feeling and interaction through his creative tools at the moment of confronting the white space in the painting, thus constituting a case of inspiration for him.

Regarding his relationship with his city, Deir Al-Zour, the plastic artist Al-Nizhan said in an interview with SANA: “Deir Al-Zour is the first container for me with its deep historical dimension that extends for thousands of years and its human dimension which is represented in many values ​​of truth, goodness and beauty.” He pointed out that the nature of this city is special through color transformations. In its four seasons, what makes it a distinctive creative source, in addition to the colors it contains in poetry and singing, which elevate feelings and feelings.

And the painting at the exodus is an equation that adopts the indicative form across lines and colors with representation through the subject along with the emotional state that forms the basis in building this painting, pointing out that a simple scene may turn into a group of panels as it constitutes a human condition and a huge amount of artistic output has.

The displacement that drew nature, its richness and diversity, in addition to human situations and the values ​​it carries, is currently working on the subject of waiting and the psychological and sentimental connotation, relying on the woman to be the heroine in these paintings with the highest value she carries in life.

On his relationship to reality, Al-Nishan sees that art is a human world that derives from the artist’s mind, a creativity that is not committed to repeating reality and simulating it literally, but rather introduces it to the world of positive interaction between itself and its subject which it presents in its paintings.

On the reality of the plastic movement in Syria, Al-Nishan indicates that he is witnessing profound transformations in the thought and techniques that he implements, especially with the existence of a quantum of knowledge flowing through social media platforms that have made artists in a state of continuous interaction and communicating with the global artistic development movement and benefiting from these transformations.

And he confirms that the Syrian formation possesses important experiences and creations despite the harsh conditions that our country has gone through and the psychological, social and economic repercussions that the war has brought upon it that made the movement of interaction with the public "retreat somewhat" but that the war years were at the same time a motivation to open new private art galleries that contributed A lot in spreading aesthetic culture and awareness of the need to unite in the face of this crisis.

The plastic artist Al-Nishan expresses his optimism about the future of the Syrian formation and concludes his speech by saying: “In the end the sadness will end and this cloud will leave us and the rainbow will return to shine in the clear skies of art and the souls of the artists will fly everywhere to spread beauty in front of the Syrians eyes in the homeland.”

Ramadan Al-Nuzhan, born in Deir Al-Zour in 1968, graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University, Painting Department in 1994, holds a Postgraduate diploma in 1996 and an educational qualification diploma from the Faculty of Education, University of Damascus and participant in special exhibitions of Deir Al-Zour artists since 1994 and in annual exhibitions and many joint exhibitions And the local collective.

Muhammad Samir Tahan