Fouad Dahdouh

Born in Damascus in 1956, the artist Fouad Dahdouh graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Damascus University in 1981. He received a diploma from the Higher National School of Art in Paris in 1984. He pursued his study of art in Bologna. and then his doctorate in art science in 1993 served as the head of the sculpture department at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Damascus University, then its dean. Works in the sculpture and photography fields. Dahdouh's sculptural and photographic work embraces accumulated and distinct experiences. He has been in the fields for a long time. Adopting an expressive factual formulation, combining the correct anatomical ratios of the human body, And between a kind of thoughtful reduction and transformation, as well as spontaneity, emotion and high sensitivity, His achievement turned into a glamorous visual feast, celebrating man and nature, within a framework of shaky aesthetics characterized by a mixture of passions of love and fear. joy and sadness, empathy and fatigue, performed by realistic and modified human bodies, which leave them in an open, welcoming vacuum, framing them in prison-like templates, again. Generally speaking, the work of the Dahdouh reflects the situation he is experiencing in the course of his completion, in which he is subjective in objectivity. What makes it a record of his interlocking diaries with compressive exhaustions, nominating to his entity, from a stock of memory full of contradictory images, full of deep anxiety and padded sadness, does not differentiate his entity, despite the joy that he surrounds himself, and deliberately displays (in one form or another) to those around him