Tammam Azzam
Born in Damascus, Syria in 1980, Tammam Azzam received his artistic training from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus with a concentration in oil painting. Alongside a successful career as a painter in Syria, Azzam was a prolific graphic designer, an experience that would inform his digital media work after relocating to Dubai with the start of the country’s conflict.
The initial phase of Azzam’s work was distinguished by a ‘hybrid form’ of painting with applications of various media that allowed him to arrive at tactile interactions between surface and form that multiply as compositions evolve. These semi-abstract works use unconventional materials such as rope, clothespins, and other found objects in order to accentuate the depth, texture, and space of laboured picture planes, creating a visible tension. Although outwardly different in appearance, the series that resulted from these early experiments were inspired by the artist’s changing perceptions of specific urban environments.
Following the start of the uprising in Syria, Azzam turned to digital media and graphic art to create visual composites of the conflict that resonated with international viewers. These widely distributed works are informed by his interest in the interventionist potential of digital photography and street art as powerful and direct forms of protest that are difficult to suppress. In early 2013, Azzam made worldwide headlines when his Freedom Graffiti print went viral on social media.
Recently, he has returned to painting with Storeys, a series of monumental works on canvas that communicate the magnitude of devastation experienced across his native country through expressionist compositions of destroyed cityscapes. Chronicling the current state of his homeland, Azzam delves into a cathartic exercise of reconstruction, storey by storey. Alongside these new paintings, he has produced a significant body of giclée prints and installations that depict the facets of cities through similar themes.
Azzam has contributed to large-scale international exhibitions such as the FUU-Street Art Festival, Sarajevo (2015); Vancouver Biennale, where he was in residence (2014); FotoFest Biennial (2014), Houston; Dak’Art: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2014); Alexandria Biennale (2014); and the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2013).
In recent years, Azzam has participated in solo and group exhibitions at such venues as Bienal del Sur, Caracas (2017); Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn (2017); For-Site Foundation, San Francisco (2017, 2016); European Capital of Culture-Pafos, Pafos (2017); City Museum of Odenburg, Oldenburg (2017); Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden (2016); Columbia University, New York (2016); Tainiothiki Twixtlab, Athens (2016); Ayyam Gallery - 11 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (2016); Banksy’s Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare (2015); Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (2015); Framer Framed in de Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (2015); Forum Factory, Berlin (2014); Lena & Roselli Gallery, Budapest (2014); Liquid Art House, Boston (2014); Rush Arts, New York (2014); Busan Museum of Art, Seoul (2014); 1x1 Art Gallery, New Delhi (2014).
In 2016, Azzam received an artist fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmonhost, Germany.
TA63 Tammam AZZAM 'Metallica Series' 100 X 100 cm. Mixed Media on Canvas 2010Secondo Tammam: “Credo che l’arte non possa salvare il Paese. … Ma credo allo stesso tempo che tutti i tipi di cultura, arte o scrittura, cinema o fotografia , possano ricostruire qualcosa in futuro .”
Un equilibrato messaggio di speranza, quindi.
Pretendere che l’Arte cambi letteralmente il mondo è troppo, ma può segnare ed influenzare le coscienze e la sensibilità delle persone, arrivando ad un miglioramento progressivo della Società.
Infatti, l’arte produce immagini che hanno una funzione educativa, critica ed eversiva, sono dirette ed incisive e possono pertanto contribuire significativamente ad un determinato cambiamento, tanto più se le si dà il modo di esprimersi in modo nuovo e diverso, di interagire con le persone, di uscire dai consueti spazi dedicati e di non essere limitata, esclusiva ed accessibile solo a certe persone.
TA64 Tammam AZZAM 'Metallica Series' 100 X 100 cm. Mixed Media on Canvas 2010
TA64 Tammam AZZAM 'Metallica Series' 100 X 100 cm. Mixed Media on Canvas 2010
TA65 Tammam AZZAM 'Laundry Series' 180 X 180 cm. Mixed Media on Canvas 2010
TA66 Tammam AZZAM 'Laundry Series' 182 X 182 cm. Mixed Media on Canvas 2010
Untitled, Laundry series, 2011, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 210 cm
Tammam Azzam-Syrian Pawns (Pegni siriani)-Syrian Museum, 2013
Freedom Graffiti, 2013, lightbox, 75 x 75 cm, edition of 5
Untitled, Storeys series, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
Untitled, Storeys series, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 250 cm
Untitled, Storeys series, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 170 x 190 cm
Lighthouse, 2015
Wallpaper, 2015
Tammam Azzam, 'Dali', Syrian Museum series
Tammam Azzam, 'Van Gogh', Syrian Museum series
Tammam Azzam, 'Andy Warhol', Syrian Museum series
Tammam Azzam, 'Goya', Syrian Museum series
An image of a bombed Syrian building against a burning 9/11 tower is one of the works Azzam has donated to exhibition ART4PEACE
Untitled, Storeys series, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 250 cmLighthouse, 2015
Installation view, Our Night is Long, 2017, Dubai (11 Alserkal Avenue)
United Nations, lightbox, 75 x 105 cm
Tammam Azzam, Bleeding Syria, 60X60cm, Archival print on cotton
(Ayyam Gallery)
Tammam Azzam, Well Stay Here.
Tammam Azzam, Syrian Spring, 112X112cm, Archival print on cotton
(Ayyam Gallery)
Tammam Azzam, Syrian Museum, Paul Guaguin's Tahitian Women on the Beach, 45x40cm, Archival print on cotton
(Ayyam Gallery)
United Nations, lightbox, 75 x 105 cm
“I want to discuss how the whole world could be interested in art and on
the other hand two hundred people are killed every day in Syria. Goya
created a work to immortalize [the] killing of hundreds of innocent
Spanish citizens on May 3, 1808. How many May 3rds do we have in Syria
today?”
Da Klimt a Munch, l'arte va tra le macerie della Siria /Foto - Adnkronos
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30 set 2015
E' stato questo l'obiettivo dell'artista siriano Tammam Azzam che, due anni fa, ha realizzato una ...Interview with Tammam Azzam on Vimeo
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23 lug 2015 - Caricato da Vancouver Biennale
A brief interview with Tammam Azzam about his residency experience in Squamish and why suitcases are ...Syria | Tammam Azzam on Vimeo
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02 gen 2013 - Caricato da Ayyam Gallery
Solo exhibition of new works by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam at Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz - Dubai Displaced ...Artist Tammam Azzam takes us on Syria's road into hell - The National
https://www.thenational.ae/.../artist-tammam-azzam-takes-us-on-syri...
24 gen 2016
Syrian artist Tammam Azzam takes us on a bleak, desolate journey through bombed-out buildings and a ...TAMMAM AZZAM Depicts War Torn Syria - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KMN5WBAJLw
07 ott 2014 - Caricato da ڿڰۣ❀ForLOVEoftheARTS❀ڿڰۣ
Syrian artist-in-exile Tammam Azzam, whose romantic yet uncompromising body of work forces us to see the ...Il dolore dei graffiti - le mag - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbqZykZxSw
17 dic 2013 - Caricato da euronews (in Italiano)
L'artista siriano Tammam Azzam mette a reagire le immagini di capolavori occidentali con le scene ...A Syrian artist reflects on war - le mag - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368bEew1FpI
17 dic 2013 - Caricato da euronews (in English)
Tammam Azzam is one of Syria's rising young talents. ... euronews, the most watched news channel in ...The power of love with Tammam Azzam in Dubai - The National
https://www.thenational.ae/.../the-power-of-love-with-tammam-azza...
17 feb 2013
The Dubai-based artist Tammam Azzam's latest work, Freedom Graffiti, went viral last week. He explains what ...Tammam Azzam: Kunst gegen den Krieg | ttt - titel, thesen ...
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22 gen 2017
Der syrische Künstler Tammam Azzam weiß, dass er durch seine Bilder keinen Krieg beenden kann ...Tammam Azzam - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV__CwCBm9U
27 set 2017 - Caricato da Juan Carlos Martínez Salazar
Project of Tammam Azzam ¡ By: JuanCarlos Mtz, Adria Coello, Cesareo Rdz and Orlando Montalvo.
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