Damascus-SANA
This evening, Damascus Gallery was flooded with visitors to the retrospective exhibition of the international artist, Dr. Ezz El-Din Shamout, to announce its strong entry into the Syrian fine arts scene in its first artistic activities.
The exhibition included 12 oil paintings and 8 paintings using printing and engraving techniques, summarizing several stages of the experience of the artist Shammout, born in Damascus in 1940, and showing the intellectual and aesthetic richness that his works enjoyed throughout his rich artistic career.
About the exhibition, the artist and researcher Shammout said in a statement to SANA reporter: The exhibition summarizes my artistic experience over more than sixty years, and the works are selected from several artistic stages, and from groups present in more than one Arab and foreign country, and this required research and study to intensify all these experiences throughout my career. Artistry, indicating that there is no end to the experience of any artist as long as he is still drawing and learning something new every day.
The artist, a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1966, explained that his long artistic career was characterized by constant research and experimentation in methods and techniques, with one painting containing symbols from several civilizations, and relying on different artistic schools depending on the visual memory that incites the formulation of artwork in a different way, pointing out that Most of his paintings are based on previous prepared sketches that are formulated together at the moment of the painting's birth, without prior knowledge of the final result of the work, with the possibility of returning to complete or modify the painting after several years.
A graduate of the Bouzar School in Paris in 1974 indicated that the artistic research journey evolved from the past after the various techniques were readily available, which allowed the artist to devote himself more to the stage of creativity and to express his ideas in a creative artistic and aesthetic way, expressing his optimism about the future of Syrian plastic art, which began to repeat His prosperity that he reached ten years ago, stressing that the renaissance will be quick to reach an advanced stage at the level of the region and the world.
In her turn, Nour Salman, the director of the gallery, explained that the artist Ezz El-Din Shammout has a distinguished and rich artistic experience that spans more than sixty years, through which he was a contemporary of the Syrian plastic movement, which prompted them to choose him and hold a retrospective of his works to celebrate his experience as the first event to be held in the gallery, with the aim of contributing to the new renaissance of art. Syrian artist.
Plastic artist Nagham Ballan, who is preparing for a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Damascus, has made it clear that she will devote her academic research in cooperation with the Damascus Gallery, to presenting Syrian artwork in a contemporary museum way, in addition to holding seminars, events and academic artistic workshops to serve Syrian art locally and globally.
Muhammad Samir Tahan
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