Untitled
Description
Executed in: 1990
Medium: Gouache on cardboard
Size: 59.5 x 112 cm
Signed and dated lower left
Provenance
Galerie 50 x 70, Beirut. Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Location
Beirut
Favourite
Description
Born in 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq, Dia Azzawi went on to study archaeology at the College of Arts and later at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. In 1976, Azzawi left Iraq for London, where he studied printmaking and began producing work in open response to the conflicts plaguing his homeland. He continues to live and work in London, United Kingdom. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, the Tate Modern in London, and the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, among others.
“From the beginning, Azzawi’s interest in history, folklore, tradition, and the modernist language was bound up with an attempt to understand, and to find a way out of the human experience of injustice. He understood Iraq as the enactment of a constructed memory that is shared communally through a pain and agony that are at time also performative.”
Dr Nada Shabout, A Dialogue with Modernism, essay. In Dia Azzawi, A Retrospective from 1963 until Tomorrow. Mathaf Museum, Qatar, p 24.
Exhibitions
Galerie 50 x 70, Beirut, c. 1990s.
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