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Exhibition of Sculptures by Assem Al Bacha
From March 06, 2013 until May 22, 2013
Casa Árabe will be hosting the exhibition ASSEM AL BACHA. From Within: Sculptures of pain and rebellion. In memory of Namir in Madrid as of March 8. It is comprised of the sculptural work by the Syrian artist residing in Spain, Assem Al Bacha.
The exhibition is made up of 36 works in all, from the sculptor’s different creative periods, including pieces from his beginnings in the seventies, as well as his most recent works, which have been marked by the difficult situation his country of origin is going through. The showing allows us to take a close look at the changes along the artistic path taken by Assem Al Bacha.
The exhibition will be open to the public until May 22 in the (c/Alcalá, 62), Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.; Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m.
The son of Syrian immigrants, he was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, though he returned to Syria with his family when he was just ten years old. He studied at the Damascus School of Philosophy and Fine Arts, having received his university degree in 1977 from the Surikov Advanced Institute of Plastic Arts in Moscow. After his first stay in Spain from 1981 to 1983, he moved to our country permanently in 1987. Since 1991 he has lived in Granada and, in addition to working as a style proofreader for the Arabic Section of the EFE Press Agency, he was the Director of the Cultural Department of the Al-Andalus Legacy Foundation from 1999 to 2001.
His work has been shown at solo and group exhibitions in Damascus, Aleppo, Moscow, Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Madrid, Barcelona, Gerona, Granada, Malaga, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and other European and Arab cities. In addition to his sculpting and painting, the style of which is noted as having a particular somberness and expressive intensity, as well as profound poetics, Assem Al Bacha is also a highly respected translator and Arabic narrator, having published several books of stories and novels, including ... wa-ba'd min ayyam ukhar (... and something from other days, translated into Spanish by Juan Jiménez, Madrid, CantArabia, 1991), as well as his thoughts on art and life collected in al-Shami al-akhir fi Garnata. Yawmiyat fi l-mashgal wa-kitabat tasannat (The Last Syrian in Granada. Diary of the Workshop and Other Tales Which Arose), Abu Dhabi, 2001 (Ibn Battuta Award in the “Diaries” category, 2008-2009).
The exhibition will be open to the public until May 22 in the (c/Alcalá, 62), Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.; Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Assem Al Bacha
The son of Syrian immigrants, he was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, though he returned to Syria with his family when he was just ten years old. He studied at the Damascus School of Philosophy and Fine Arts, having received his university degree in 1977 from the Surikov Advanced Institute of Plastic Arts in Moscow. After his first stay in Spain from 1981 to 1983, he moved to our country permanently in 1987. Since 1991 he has lived in Granada and, in addition to working as a style proofreader for the Arabic Section of the EFE Press Agency, he was the Director of the Cultural Department of the Al-Andalus Legacy Foundation from 1999 to 2001.
His work has been shown at solo and group exhibitions in Damascus, Aleppo, Moscow, Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Madrid, Barcelona, Gerona, Granada, Malaga, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and other European and Arab cities. In addition to his sculpting and painting, the style of which is noted as having a particular somberness and expressive intensity, as well as profound poetics, Assem Al Bacha is also a highly respected translator and Arabic narrator, having published several books of stories and novels, including ... wa-ba'd min ayyam ukhar (... and something from other days, translated into Spanish by Juan Jiménez, Madrid, CantArabia, 1991), as well as his thoughts on art and life collected in al-Shami al-akhir fi Garnata. Yawmiyat fi l-mashgal wa-kitabat tasannat (The Last Syrian in Granada. Diary of the Workshop and Other Tales Which Arose), Abu Dhabi, 2001 (Ibn Battuta Award in the “Diaries” category, 2008-2009).
