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A deeply personal look at trailblazing artist, publisher, and philosopher Simone Fattal. Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) was raised in Lebanon, where she studied philosophy at the École des Lettres in Beirut. She moved to Paris in the early 1960s, where she continued her philosophical pursuits at the Sorbonne. In 1969, she returned to Beirut and began working as a visual artist, primarily a painter, exhibiting her works throughout the Middle East and North Africa until the start of the Lebanese Civil War. In 1980, she settled in California with her partner, the late artist and poet, Etel Adnan, where she founded Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. In 1988, she enrolled to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, which prompted a return to her artistic practice and a newfound dedication to making sculpture and ceramics. In the intervening years she has come to global renown as one of the most significant artists of her generation with solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London; MoMA PS1, and the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. In this volume, close friend, confidante, and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist delves into the artist's past--unearthing stories from her personal archives, and memory. An essay by curator, Dr. Omar Kholeif situates Fattal's early artistic practice in the broader schema of art to emerge from the "Arab world," and an afterword by author and filmmaker, Rasha Salti delves into the mythological aspects in Fattal's artmaking. Published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with artPost21
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Obrist, Hans-Ulrich
- ISBN: 9781915609359
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 144
- Publication Year: 2025
Language:
English