Untitled
Description
Executed in: 2020
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 198 x 150 cm
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by the Saleh Barakat Gallery.
Location
Beirut
Description
Tagreed Darghouth is a Lebanese painter. She obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut, as well as a diploma in Art Education. She participated in the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000 and 2001, which was led by the Syrian-German artist Marwan Kassab Bachi. She then went on to study Space Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
In painting Darghouth’s body of work reflects on the feebleness of humanity by tackling themes such as popular culture and socio-political issues. Darghouth delves into universal concerns in an abstract expressionist style by addressing mortality, violence, and war through the painting of skulls and nuclear explosions. Since 2010 she has been portraying human skulls against ornamental backgrounds made of roses, suns, stars, and bunnies to bring attention to the morbidity in their contrast. This preoccupation with the notion of ‘Memento mori’ is clearly expanded on in the work Untitled, a timeless and universal concern that transcends time and space.
Dargouth has had several solo and group exhibitions around the world, in Al-Sharjah, Amman, Beirut, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Doha, Dubai, Jordan, Istanbul, London, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, and Singapore. She has also received several prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Ayloul Summer Academy exhibition in Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000, the 1st prize at the cm3 exhibition in Cité International Universitaire de Paris in 2003, and the Boghossian prize for a young Lebanese artist in the category of painting in 2012. She currently lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.
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