Abdalsalam Al-Aboud

Syrian Arab Republic • 1964

"Restoring beauty to life"

Biography

A graduate of the Damascus School of Fine Arts, Abdalsalam Al-Aboud has been painting for over forty years. He has exhibited throughout the Middle East, and many of his paintings are on the walls of the region's various ministries of culture. In Europe, he became known in Germany and won an award in Berlin. Alongside his practice, he taught art in the United Arab Emirates and Syria, which he had to leave in 2017, leaving behind his art school and many paintings.

Now settled in France, he continues his work which he defines as an aesthete: "Restoring beauty to life, making Art a lifestyle in order to contribute to an aesthetic vision of the world, based on love in a simple, beautiful, spontaneous and human way."

Nationality

Syrian