Fadi Yazigi: One Man Show

Ayyam Gallery, Damascus cordially invites you to Fadi Yazigi's One Man Show exhibition. Signing of his new book that includes a selected collection of his works between 2001-2008 will be on the day of the opening. Yazigi has it all. He owns it all. He possesses his art, design, color, and fame. He is one of very few local living young artists who are able to meet their work with reality without actually imitating reality. In both large and narrow schemes, his work has met reality to the maximum limits. His art scenarios, either in his paintings, sculptures and clays, are simply about ordinary people he meets in his daily life. Yazigi emerges himself in stories; for him there is always a tale that has to be instructed, otherwise he loses the fun of his art making. Nevertheless, it is rare that Yazigi talks about his art as art. When he does, he claims that colors, lines and textures are of a big value to him, or he judges according to whether he "likes" it or not. Yazigi is recounting the old bread story by stamping. In fact, he is stamping "on" a tradition rather than stamping a tradition. He does not need to talk about Palmyra or mention the grand get-together moods and events to clarify his themes. And regardless of his personal passion for ornament, the drawn symbols on his artwork do not seem gathered in a decorative mode. He is in search for his own thing.