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Jaber Alwan – The Yellow Skirt, 2005

Courtesy: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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Courtesy of Athar Jaber, photographed by Houssen Soufan

Jaber Alwan

Iraq (b.1948)

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Artist Profile: Jaber Alwan

Born in 1948, Jaber Alwan hails from a small, rural village near the ancient city of Babylon, a city which has inspired artists, architects and historians for generations. Alwan was no different: an imaginative and creative visionary from his youth (he would spend hours as a child moulding clay at river banks into small statues), he explored the ruins and imagined the vivid images of its glorious past. The artistic legacy of Babylon stayed with him when he moved to Baghdad in 1966, enrolling in the Institute of Fine Art to study sculpture, which was then Alwan’s primary artistic passion, and was especially reinforced after seeing the works of Jewad Selim upon arriving in Iraq’s capital.

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