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Zaher El-Bizri
is a young Lebanese artist. He specializes
in painting and mixed-media pictorial and
plastic arts. |
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distinguished learned institutions,
including the UNESCO, The Arab
Cultural Club (Beirut), the Centre
Culturel Français, and the Forum de
Beyrouth. He furthermore received
several awards and honorary
citations in recognition of his
artistic talent and the merits of
his oeuvre. His work has also been
communicated in public talks,
reviewed in collective monographs,
and covered by the press, in
addition to various radio and
television interviews.
Besides
his professional practice as an
artist, El-Bizri is a committed
organizer of several social
awareness youth campaigns and
programs, and he is a dedicated
active member of cultural
associations and societies,
including The Lebanese Artists
Association for Painting and
Sculpture, The Youth Association for
Social Awareness (YASA), and
Operation Big Blue. He is also the
Founder and elected President of The
Cultural Street Association (al-Shâri’
al-Thaqâfî), which is a Lebanese
grassroots non-profit, and
non-governmental youth organization,
that aims at promoting popular
expressions of culture and
engagements with the arts in civic
society.
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He developed a
refined expertise in watercolors, in oil
paintings, charcoal drawing, and graphic
design, with a highly skilled use of
Information Technology tools besides
classical artistic media.
El-Bizri focuses
principally on representational and
pictorial depictions of everyday scenes and
quotidian intimate public spaces, of diverse
characters and portraits, while being
particularly inspired by the Levantine
Mediterranean cultural milieu, and
primarily by the architecture of the
medieval quarters of the ancient Lebanese
port city of Sidon (Saida). His
artistic endeavors explore the profound
promising potentials that remain presently
contained within classical styles in
painting, as well as experimenting with
abstract configurations in pictorial art.
His artistic activities are also situated
within urban places, and they act as
inspirational catalysts for stimulating
dynamic cultural practices in the public
domain in the form of installations,
sculptures, and series of murals.
El-Bizri received
his Diploma in Fine Arts (Beaux Arts) in
2000, from the Lebanese University in
Beirut. His prolific artistic productions
and creative works have been exhibited on a
regular basis since 1998 in numerous
prestigious art galleries and venues. He
has been also formally invited to
participate in multiple international and
national artistic events and cultural
festivals organized by art
associations, cultural
societies, and
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