
Nima Sagharchi
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La présente oeuvre est vendue par le Fonds Claude et France Lemand au profit des Artistes et de l'Institut du Monde Arabe
Né en 1985 à Misyaf, nord-ouest de la Syrie, Khaled Dawwa est diplômé des Beaux-Arts de Damas en 2007, section Sculpture. Dans son projet de fin d'études, intitulé « L'Attente», apparaissaient déjà en esquisse les personnages qui vont, jusqu'à aujourd'hui dominer son travail artistique. On y pressent alors également l'importance des thèmes socio-politiques à venir, opposant le peuple au pouvoir.
Dans le contexte actuel, au cœur des changements sociaux et politiques que vivent les pays arabes, y compris la Syrie, Khaled Dawwa ne cesse de réfléchir sur le rôle et l'impact de l'art sur la société. Il souhaite que les thèmes de ses œuvres, utilisant des techniques simples et parfois traditionnelles, offrent au public un axe de réflexion.
Début 2011, Khaled Dawwa participe activement à la création et la mise en œuvre à Damas de l'atelier Al-Boustan. En 2013 il se trouve obligé de fuir vers le Liban où il poursuit son activité artistique en exposant son travail sur sa page Facebook (Clay&Knife).
Fin 2014, il s'installe en France où il reprend une activité publique, au-delà de l'espace virtuel. Il continue à aborder les thèmes socio-politiques, mais dans une vision plus globale, comme le montrent ses expositions personnelles « Compressé » (2015) et « Debout! » (2017). Il participe aussi à des expositions collectives en France et en Europe. Khaled Dawwa quitte Marseille et s'établit à Paris où il crée son atelier de sculpture.
Khaled Dawwa is a Syrian artist and sculptor based in France since 2014. He was born in 1985 in the city of Masyaf, west of Syria, and completed his university studies in Damascus where he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department in 2007. Since his early childhood, Khaled has been interested in the concepts of mass and dimensions, and has begun to experiment with the use of available tools. This encouraged him to complete his secondary education in the professional field, where he gained considerable technical expertise and supported his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
The core characters to Khaled's work began to crystallize with his graduation project from the Faculty of Fine Arts, which was titled "In Waiting" for the political and social subject to dominate later. During his graduation project, which coincided with major political and social transformations in Arab societies, including Syria, Khaled's obsession with the role and impact of art in people's lives dominated his approach. Later, Khaled joined the "Al Bustan" cultural group in Damascus in early 2011, where he helped establish and equip the centre. He continued to work there until 2013. He then travelled to Lebanon where he spent a year hiding, working secretly and continuing his art through the creation of the clay and knife Facebook page. Khaled currently lives in Paris and continues to work at his studio there.
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