Jamal Joratli
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Jamal Joratli is a Greece-based businessman[1] and painter of Syrian origin.
Biography[edit]
Jamal was born in Salamiyah in 1961 and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Aleppo. He now[when?] resides and works in Greece, Athens, which he first visited in 1988.[2] He chose Greece "for its natural light and colors, which cannot be imitated even by the best photoshop application, and for its culture".[3]
Work[edit]
Exhibitions of his work have been held in the United States (New York), Germany (Düsseldorf), Lebanon, Jordan, Dubai, China, and Greece.[4] He held a solo exhibition (The Silk Road) in 2016, first in Athens at the Benaki Museum and then at the Museum of Asian Art of Corfu.[5] In October 2018 the exhibition was transferred to China, at the Dalian Modern Museum.[6]
Style[edit]
According to Klaus Sebastian, Jamal uses tradition as a basis for his powerful paintings, while real-life motifs are turned into "flowing colour energies". With his art, Jamal tries to look behind the surfaces, and to harmonically connect the oriental with the occidental artistic schools.[7]
History of art professor Manos Stefanidis regards Jamal as a "pictor classicus" – in the way Giorgio de Chirico used the term, namely a painter first addressing the problem of positioning the subject in space – who integrates modern European painting in his art, "but with terms of locality and an emphasis on the personal agony of expression".[8] According to Stefanidis, Jamal acts as a defender of "cultural reciprocity" between East and West, leading the artistic revival of the Arab world.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Angelopoulou, Athanasia (4 February 2021). "Corfu: the Emir of Qatar invests 15 more million to Miramare Hotel". iefimerida.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "The Silk Road by Jamal in the Museum of Modern Art". matrix24.gr (in Greek). 13 January 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ Angelopoulou, Athanasia (1 December 2018). "Jamal Joratli: the Arab artist who works in Athens and deifies it". iefimerida.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ Jian et al., p. 101.
- ^ Lymperopoulou, Katerina (1 June 2016). "Jamal: the Silk Road at the Museum of Asian Art of Corfu". thetoc.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ Artemiadi, Anastasia (4 April 2019). "Jamal Joratli: Η επόμενη μέρα μετά την πρόσκληση στην Κίνα" [Jamal Joratli: The next day after the invitation to China]. artviews.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ Jian et al., pp. 18–21.
- ^ Jian et al., pp. 86–88.
- ^ Stefanidis, Manos (12 January 2016). "Jamal – the Silk Road, an allegory for the course of painting". manosstefanidis.blogspot.com (in Greek). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
Bibliography[edit]
- Jian, Chen; Jamal; Moraitou, Mina; Sebastian, Klaus; Stefanidis, Manos. Jamal – The Silk Road. Dalian Modern Museum. [when?]