Nasser Al-Aswadi
Nasser Al Aswadi (born October 4, 1978) is a visual artist uses Arabic letters and words to create paintings and sculptures. He is from Yemen but lives in France.[1][2][3]
Growth, study, and work
On October 4th, 1978, Nasser was born in a small village called Hujr in Taiz city, Yemen. He studied and graduated from a school in his village. Then, he studied architectural design in Taiz City first, then moved to Sana'a to complete his architectural study. Nasser exhibited his first works in Sana'a in 2001. He moved to France in 2006 where he started practicing etching in Paris.[1][2][3][4]
Art
Nasser Alaswadi’s artwork varies between paintings and sculptures. His art is based on Arabic letters, words, religious and musical sources that are used to express feelings and thoughts without the need to use sentences. Nasser is using interlocking letters to offer an artistic style of his own. He has exhausted all the different styles of Arabic writing to create a world in which his work is abstract and is obviously inspired by Yemen and the memories imprinted in his mind since his childhood as the events of Arab spring, the daily life and concomitantly, the rural landscapes, the architecture, the myths told by old women, the decoration of the domes, and the designs of mosques, and then he emerges the energy and light of the words he selects. Writing is the core of his work, and it strays from the normal usage of those terms to enable others to enter into a world of sign and visual language. The artist mostly uses colors between the white and the black because these two colors were the impact that lasted in his mind of living in a house with no colors in his childhood.[4][5][6][7][8]
Paintings:
As a trained architect, Nasser’s composition of paintings is centered according to geometric ideals theorized by Plato and Arab philosophers. For him, the circle represents fullness since it has neither a beginning nor an end, and it demarcates the maximum surface within a unique stroke the painter privileged with discs, domes, semi-spheres, aggregates, and clouds. Letters are not placed on a straight line or horizontally, but rather transcribed according to their dynamic density or even superposed on each other, and may even be interlaced and labyrinthine in the space that has become imaginary at the abstract. Within vast aerial views, inspired by elemental forms of sacred architecture, the texture is saturated with vibratory signs that are released from their gangue and teeter over the viewer; the stellar and corpuscular beat of the work is revealed, the unveiling of the mirror of the universe does not destroy nature, but it perfects it as the artist uses the energy of words and light.[5]
Sculptures:
Deriving from the words Halal(allowed) and Haram(forbidden), without the viewer being able to explicitly recognize them, the artist arranges a plurality of signs in bronze forming spatial sculptures. Each of them is both macrocosm and microcosm. The concreteness of the metallic signs and the luminous intervals that separate them evoke crystallography, waves cresting, geometric flowers, and silhouettes. The interlacing features spread across the empty and the full, boosting tension to enhance spatial energy contained within it virtually and the metamorphosis to come.[5]
Expositions and participations
Nasser’s first exposition was in 2001 in ONG FRANÇAISE DIA in Sana'a. Since then he has been participating in so many international galleries and exhibitions around the world including Yemen, France, United States, KSA, UK, Oman, Egypt, Luxembourg, Greece, UAE, and Kuwait. He is also represented by Tabari Artspace Dubai, and some of his works are displayed by the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and the Islamic Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur. These participations were varied between solo exhibitions  and group exhibitions.Â.[9][10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Al-Aswadi, Nasser. "BIOGRAPHY". nasseralaswadi.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Al Aswadi, Nasser. "Nasser Al Aswadi". DAR AL FUNOON.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Al Aswadi, Nasser. "La biographie de l'artiste". PATRICK BARTOLI.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Artist Al-Aswadi Shares His Story With National Yemen". National Yemen. By Tamjid Alkohali.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Al-Aswadi, Nasser. "NASSER AL AWADI, THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE". nasseralaswadi.
- ↑ "A combination of history and the sacred, the work of Nasser Al Aswadi stands out, unique. Encounter with the Yemeni artist". artscoops.
- ↑ Al Aswadi, Nasser. "Nasser Al Aswadi". JANET RADY FINE ART.
- ↑ Al Aswadi, Nasser. "Nasser Al Aswadi: Open Horizons". My Art Gides.
- ↑ AL Aswadi, Nasser. "Nasser AL Aswadi". TABARI ARTSPACE.
- ↑ Al-Aswadi, Nasser. "Exhibitions". Mutual Art.
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