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Sculpture by Assem Al Bacha in Cordoba
From May 30, 2013 until September 22, 2013
As of June 6 at its Cordoba headquarters, Casa Árabe will be hosting the exhibition ASSEM AL BACHA. From Within: Sculptures of pain and rebellion. In memory of Namir. 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 opening ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., and after that date the exhibition will remain open to the public in the Exhibition Rooms of Casa Árabe (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) Mondays through Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 to 6:30 p.m., and on Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. 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 opening ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., and after that date the exhibition will remain open to the public in the Exhibition Rooms of Casa Árabe (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) Mondays through Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 to 6:30 p.m., and on Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. 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).
