Emad Dhahir

Deferred Dreams

Emad H. Dhahir- Born in Baghdad-Iraq in 1964; obtained his B.A in sculpture from the University of Baghdad in 1989, lived in Jordan 1994-2005 before moving to Australia in 2005. Al Dhahir has held numerous solo exhibitions 1997-2010 in Amman, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Sydney and Paris and took part of many collective exhibitions 1988-2010 in Rome, Sydney, Merrylands, Fairfield, Beirut, Amman and Baghdad. Winner of the Martyrs Court Monument in 1989, The Award of Youth Festival in 1989 and the first prize for sculpture in the Black Town Centre in years 2007 and 2005,

Art statement-The main source of inspiration for my sculptural body of work comes from the methodology of my own culture; the ancient Mesopotamia which is blended with rituals of my daily life- my dreams and my memories. I borrow the beauty from formal and aesthetic qualities of old ancient sculptures as well as the languages and forms of modern sculpture such as those of Giacometti, transforming them into new contemporary language and spicing them with an "Iraqi Style". This style often contains and interprets serious subject matter in form and content which provide to my sculptures different humanistic and aesthetic qualities. While facing these honestly made small-size sculptures, the viewer should comprehend that they are just a creative and playful foundation for bigger sculptural artistic projects waiting to be created in public spaces.

عماد الظاهر من مواليد بغداد العراق عام 1964، حاصل على بكالوريس الفنون الجميلة من جامعة بغداد . اقام بالاردن من عام 1994 لغاية 2005، في عام 2005 هاجر الى استراليا.
أقام العديد من المعارض الفردية منذ 1997 - 2010 في عمان، أبوظبي، بيروت، سيدني، وباريس. أقام العديد من المعارض المشتركة منذ 1998 - 2010 في روما، سيدني، بيروت، عمان، بغداد. حصل على العديد من الجوائز: جائزة مهرجان الشباب 1989، الجائزة الاولى والثانية في مسابقة النحت في سدني- استراليا، مابين عامي 2007- 2005، وجائزة نصب الشهيد.