From August 26 to September 13, Ayyam Gallery DIFC will present a special preseason pop up exhibition, 'Buried in Tradition' for late Syrian artist Moustafa Fathi.
Born in Deraa, Fathi received a Diploma in Engraving from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 1966 and a Diploma in Engraving and Lithography from the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1978.
Throughout his career he exhibited regularly at home and abroad, most notably in a number of important French institutions, including the Picasso Museum in Antibes, which acquired one of his works. Between 1966 and 1987, he was a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts, a position that intensified his contributions to the Damascus art scene.
A prominent figure, as both an academic and practicing artist, Fathi worked not only amidst Syria's heyday in modernism but during its establishment of new formalistic and theoretical frontiers. As such, his work possesses elements of modernist approaches blended with recent experiments in art, a combination that furthered the country's contemporary painting.With a rich artistic life that spanned four decades and two continents, Fathi labored intensely on a painting style that was in line with developments in both Arab and international art.
