Untitled (2005)
Description
Size: 175 x 151 cm; 68.9 x 59.4 in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the reverse
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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Description
Born in 1972 in Al-Hasakah, near the Syrian-Iraqi border, Sabhan Adam is a self-taught artist. After promising beginnings in his hometown, he moved to Damascus and started displaying his work in his early twenties with a debut solo show at the Goethe Institute in 1994. A year later he had his first show outside his homeland at Agial Art Gallery in Beirut.
Sabhan Adam is broadly known for painting human figures which are often qualified as “monstrous”, “ugly”, and “terrifying”. As Adonis wrote, “the disfigurement projects a particular aesthetics of protest, provocation and insurrection”. The poet adds that “his artistic force does not reside in his capacity to represent, but rather in his capacity to reveal the ambiguousness in this frail and fragile “reed” we call man.”
Depicting a crowned head placed on the handle of a baby carriage, this piece brings together violent historical events with references to childhood. The red monochrome background enhances the dramatic mood. In 2012, Adam exhibited at Mark Hachem Gallery, Beirut, a series of similarly constructed paintings that were his interpretations of “Little Miss Red Riding Hood.”
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