Young Collectors Auction - exhibit-E

AsaadARABI1941Lot 043'Daily Dispute' Signed, Dated144 X 72 cm. Acrylic on Canvas 2007Estimate (US$ 6,500 - 8,000)Born in Damascus in 1941, Asaad Arabi has been recognized as a prominent contemporaryArab artist since the 1980s. Featured in countless exhibitions throughout the region andabroad, his works are housed in several prestigious collections, most notably the ArabWorld Institute in Paris, the Barcelona Contemporary Museum of Art, and South Korea’sMuseum in Seoul.His most recent exhibitions include a handful of well-received solo and group shows withAyyam Gallery to which he has contributed a variety of canvases and has demonstratedan impressive range of painting. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, Arabiwent on to receive a diploma in painting from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Paris in1983 and later earned a PhD in aesthetics from the distinguished Sorbonne University in1987. He has been residing in France since 1975 where he has undertaken extensive artresearch and has penned a significant collection of art writings in both French and Arabic.As such, he is also widely revered as a prominent aesthetic theorist.Beginning his career at the end of Syria’s modernist period, his paintings span decades ofart and include numerous styles. Although he began depicting the old streets of Damascuswith an acute sense of realism, this quickly gave way to figurative portrayals that reliedheavily on elements of Cubism and abstraction.From a method of painting that delved into the realm of geometric abstraction to thevibrant form of Expressionism that characterizes his canvases today, Arabi’s work hassuccessfully traversed multiple international developments in art.