Simone Fattal
Guerriers I, II, IV, V, & VI | 2008
Sandstone. various dimensions.
Simone Fattal, who was initially a painter, became interested in ceramic and clay sculpture after she took a course at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco, in the early 1980s. Since then, she developed a sculptural practice around the figure of a man, a warrior. Mixing multiple influences including ancient Mesopotamian art, the artist insists that the warrior, the hero, lives and dies while standing on his two feet. Like her paintings inspired by the view of Mount Sannine, these Warriors are undoubtedly linked to the image of the combatant during the Lebanese civil war.
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Biography of the artist
Born in Damascus, Syria. 1942
Works and Lives in Paris
Simone Fattal is a painter and ceramics sculptor. She began painting in 1969 when she returned to Beirut after completing her studies in Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1980 she settled in California and founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative, experimental literary work.
She returned to her career as an artist in 1989, through the medium of ceramics sculpture. During this period, she worked at the prestigious workshop of Hans Spinner in Grasse, France. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited widely.
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