Damascus-SANA
As soon as you look at one of his sculptures or models and look into its details, you will think of the amount of creativity in selecting its idea and the level of perfecting its performance to be the answer to your question about the employer, “Syrian artist Jamil Qasha.”
Qasha, the son of Hama Governorate, was born in 1958. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 1985. He held many exhibitions in Syria, such as his exhibition in the National Museum in Damascus and another in Aleppo, in addition to several foreign participations in Lebanon, Kuwait and the Netherlands.
Qasha represents the sculptor who tends in most of his ideas to nature and what it contains, considering it the first teacher of man, as he considers it necessary for the artist to deal with it to derive from it the ideas of his works. Ready for war and another on horseback.
In an interview with SANA, Qasha pointed out the specificity of sculpture art in particular because of the pain it contains during the completion period and as it requires more time and effort and data that is unique to other arts, justifying the length of the preparation period for holding any exhibition with the quality and number of pieces in addition to the nature of the general situation of society and the ideas it presents.
Regarding the materials used in his works, Qasha said, “It comes according to the surrounding variables. When you are in a small room, you cannot deal with the stone, despite it being the closest to his heart, and you have to resort to metal, which gives the sculptor greater freedom to reflect the idea on the artistic output more accurately.”
Khader Suleiman
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