Artist: Ziad Dalloul
Title: Celebration of the Absents The Evening’s Prelude
Year: 2015
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 195 × 390 cm
Courtesy: The Atassi Foundation

Celebration of the Absents The Evening’s Prelude, 2015

Ziad Dalloul

Based in Paris since the 1980s, Ziad Dalloul is one of Syria’s leading artists. His oeuvre includes paintings and etchings, and he is best known for his depictions. The landscapes in his work are associated with his homeland of Syria. He furthered his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, from which he graduated in 1977 and went on to attend the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris.

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The Atassi Foundation

Founded in 2016, Atassi Foundation is a non-profit arts initiative that aims to: preserve and promote modern and contemporary art and archives from Syria; foster critical thinking and research through knowledge production; advance the Syrian artistic scene through capacity building; and create a bridge between the past and the future of art production.