01 Painting, Middle East Artists, THE ART OF WAR, Mamdouh Kashlan's Displacement (Al-Nozoh), with Footnotes #79

Mamdouh Kashlan, b. 1929

Displacement (Al-Nozoh), c. 2019

Oil on canvas

174.5 by 199.5 cm. 68½ by 78½ in.

Private collection

Estimate for 12,000 - 18,000 GBP in Oct 2021

"My country is a refugee inside of me

Let my face become a shadow

An eternity of enamoured rocks circles me, for I am fire’s first lover

And fire is pregnant with my days, a rattle ringing on her breast

Her armpit is a well of tears, a lost river. The sun clings to her like a dress,

then falls. A wound she deepened into tributaries with vigor and spices

(Is this your fetus?) My sadness is a rose

I entered the school of grass, my forehead cracked, and my blood stripped of strength

I asked what should I do. Should I ring the city with a belt of bread? I scattered

Myself in fire’s colonnades. We divided the blood of kings and we hungered

We carried the epochs

mixing pebbles and stars

driving clouds

like a herd of fortresses."

ADONIS SELECTED POEMS, TRANSLATED FROM ARABIC BY KHALED MATTAWA, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN AND LONDON, 2010

Mamdouh Kashlan (1929 – 29 August 2022) was a Syrian painter. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome, Italy from 1952 to 1959, where he obtained a diploma with specialisation in painting. He held more than 300 exhibitions in Syria and around the world and many of his paintings are on display in the National museums of Damascus, Aleppo and Deir Atieh and the presidential palace. His work is also on displayed in the Sursock Museum in Beirut, Lebanon, Modern art museum in Cairo, Egypt and has work has been displayed in Sofia, Bulgaria, Paris and Seinajoki, Finland. In 1996 he was awarded the pioneers prize from the ministry of culture. Kashlan was born in Damascus in 1929. He died there on 29 August 2022. More on Mamdouh Kashlan

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