Nabil Anani
Nabil Anani 
Palestinian painter, ceramicist, and sculptor
Born in Halhul in 1943. Works and lives in Jerusalem. Nabil's work illustrates the profound relationship between art and nature. Making use of wood, animal skin, and natural dyes the artist is experimenting in this style with new ideas, pieces with smooth curves harmoniously fit together as if in refined large-scale jigsaw puzzle creating subtle compositions.
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Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the past five decades, pioneering the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper. Considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement, Anani's development as an artist has run in parallel with major events in recent Palestinian history. His work reflects the lived Palestinian experience, exhibiting distinctive responses to issues of exile, dislocation, conflict, memory and loss.
ISBN: 9780863561481Publication Date: 2018-10-02
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