Riflessione, 2024

Elias Naman  

Elias Naman was born in Yabroud, Syria, in 1980. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, he came to Italy in 2003 and enrolled at the Carrara Academy, where he earned a four-year diploma in 2009 and a specialization in sculpture in 2011, graduating with highest honors. He has always favored a figurative style and works exclusively with marble by hand, without the aid of machines, just as Michelangelo did more than five hundred years ago.

His method of execution is rooted in tradition and classicism: he works directly from the block of marble without the intermediary of a model or drawings. For Elias Naman, marble is a living, sensitive substance. A voice to be listened to and transmitted to the soul, combining the spirit of classicism with the deepest emotional impulses. Indeed, whether he is carving and shaping the statuary white of Carrara or the gray of Bardiglio, from his hands emerge symphonic delights that unite the spirit of classicism with the emotional stirrings evoked by the state of grace of each era.