2024 Exhibitions
Usama Alnassar: Life & the Other Forms of Life
6 Jan - 3 March 2024
An exhibition of sculptures and paintings, recently completed by Alnassar.
About the artist:
Alnassar was born in Damascus in 1975. He comes from a family of artists, both his maternal uncles are famous sculptors. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Damascus and in 1999 he arrived in Italy to finish his studies at the Accademia di Carrara.
Like many other sculptors before him, he chose the Apuan mountain as the ideal place to work and develop his artistic talent. His studio is at the foot of the same mountains in which the quarries used by Michelangelo, " Cave Michelangelo” - a magical place, in the midst of an evocative landscape. It was here that Alnassar constructed an amphitheatre and other inspired construction made with marble.
Alnassar is a visionary artist, he paints and sculpts using different materials. Some of his works reflect his experience as a migrant, coming from Syria to Europe, and bringing with him a world of stories and images. This encounter with other culture fascinated him and made him become sensitive to the changes in humans life and relationships.
Alnassar does not want to immortalise the moment but he wants to record the time.
