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Simone Fattal

SIMONE FATTAL

Au bord du Barada Galerie Lelong 14 January–27 February 2021 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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Simone Fattal was thinking of her home city of Damascus when she worked on huge copper structures in the Tazé studio in Paris, thanks to the funding received from LaM (the museum of metropolitan Lille). The first test prints were presented in October 2018, during the Le monde n’est pas nécessairement un empir exhibition. These engravings have now been published by Lelong Editions.

The silhouette of a city, some of its monuments, the banks of a river, and soaring trees have been worked with a brush, using sugar-lift aquatint or an acid wash. Printed in black, sepia or blue, the calm assurance of these sensitive and vibrant images, loaded with emotion, generates engagement. These are the first of Simone Fattal’s etchings to be edited.

Born in Damascus, Simone Fattal is a Lebanese-American sculptor, ceramicist and painter who lives and works in Paris. She spent many years in California, where in 1982 she founded The Post-Apollo Press, which has published many contemporary poets, mainly from America and the Middle East.

A retrospective, Works and Days, at the MoMA PS1 (New York) in 2019, afforded international recognition of her art. Her works are included in many private and public collections, including most recently the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, when the Friends of the Museum acquired the Guerrier IV glazed sandstone sculpture.

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About the Artist

Simone Fattal is a Lebanese-American artist known for her ceramic sculptures, paintings, and collages that merge history and personal memory to examine the theme of displacement. Simplistic and abstract in form, Fattal’s sculptures evoke artefacts from archaeological sites while often drawing from religious texts, poetry, and ancient tales such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and Dhat al-Himma.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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13 rue de Téhéran
Paris
France
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Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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Paris 13 rue de Téhéran
Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

Opening hours
Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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