Mohammad Zaza

Mohammad Zaza, Syrian artist, was born in Riyadh in 1987. Growing up in an artistic family, he started drawing and painting at an early age. After completing high school in Saudi Arabia, he moved to Syria in 2006 to study at the faculty of Fine Arts in Aleppo University. He held his first solo exhibition in 2008 and, after his graduation in 2010, was appointed as a painting teacher assistant at the University until 2012. Besides painting on big size canvases mainly, he also works on illustrations and animations.

In his artworks, Mohammad Zaza focuses on the movement that lies behind fixed scenes, enhancing the subject in order to open new scopes of reality. Because his paintings aspire to work as a window to another dimension of life, his shapes emphasize the unity of the source of thoughts, allowing the viewer to apprehend with him the Origins.

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Exhibition: Mohammad Zaza – The earth is blue like an orange
Opening: Thursday 21 April, 18:30
Dates: 22 April 2016 – 18 May 2016

“The earth is blue like an orange”, the words of the French surrealist writer Paul Eluard appear as an invitation to set our minds free from all their inner limits. They reflect the idea that the poetic image is a pure creation of the mind, in which the unconscious travels beyond the traditional borders. Listening to the voices of these less known territories magnify our perceptions and unravel the feelings hidden behind our visible realities. Any thoughts are possible for people who manage to adopt an alternative and less conventional look at things and experiences.

Living and working in Istanbul for almost two years Mohammad Zaza have been dealing with this idea of resourcefulness and creativity for a long time. He pushes the viewer to delve into a world full of untold stories, a space where each painting connects with everyone’s personal wanderings. Topics such as nature, humanity and spirituality are involved, all of them creating a universal dimension to his work. With a solid background and a strong artistic identity, Zaza wishes to share with its public a new dimension of visual experience, outweighing any predetermined concepts, ideas and rules.

Mohammad Zaza was born in Riyadh in 1987. Growing up in an artistic family, he started drawing and painting at an early age. After completing high school in Saudi Arabia, he moved to his homeland Syria in 2006 to study at the faculty of Fine Arts in Aleppo University. He held his first solo exhibition in 2008 and, after his graduation in 2010, was appointed as a painting teacher assistant at the University until 2012. Besides painting on big size canvases mainly, he also works on illustrations and animations.

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