Master Class
WHEN
March 24, 2022
12-2 PM
WHERE
Zoom Webinar
WHO
al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art and the Atassi Foundation for Art and Culture
Open to the Public
Register to attend this “master class” on the art and ethos of Fateh al-Moudarres (1920-1999)—one of Syria’s most beloved modernist painters, and a deeply complex thinker and educator with a far-reaching yet little understood legacy. Led by artist Issam Kourbaj and art historians Anneka Lenssen and Ambra D’Antone, the class will provide a series of lessons in ways to read the different guises of al-Moudarres. We will incorporate close readings of works, writing, recollections of his teaching, and concepts derived from the artist’s ongoing discussions with Adonis and other cultural figures.
Ambra D'Antone (Research Associate Bilderfahrzeuge, Max Weber Stiftung) will explore the relationship between word and image in al-Moudarres’s work, presenting examples of his distinctive approach to questions of meaning, form and intelligibility.
Issam Kourbaj (Former artist-in-residence, bye-fellow, and lector in art, Christ’s College, Cambridge University) will draw on his experience as a student of al-Moudarres at the College of Fine Arts, Damascus, as well as has own extensive experience teaching artists in the UK, UAE, and elsewhere, to discuss the artist’s different attitudes toward creative being, everyday life, and aesthetic judgment.
Anneka Lenssen (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley / Senior Humanities Fellow, NYU Abu Dhabi) will lead the group through an analysis of al-Moudarres’s selection and use of particular media (paint, sand, ash, other) with a particular focus on the element of chance in his oil painting practice.
Email nyuad.almawrid@nyu.edu for more details.
This is one of two events organized to mark the publication of Fateh-Adonis: Sense and Intuition, the English translation of the famous dialogues between poet Adonis and painter Fateh al-Moudarres first hosted by gallerist Mouna Atassi in Damascus in 1998.
Date: March 23, 2022
Time: 6‐8pm GST
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