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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Zahdi Qadri (1972-) is a Palestinian visual artist, born in Nahf in the Western Galilee . He began studying art in 1995 at Kuban University, and moved on to study art at Saint Petersburg University, where he received a master's degree in mural painting in 1997. He worked as a freelance artist in Saint Petersburg for several years, then returned to Palestine in 2004. A book about him was published by Ismail Al-Nashef, entitled On Palestinian Abstraction: Zahdi Qadri and the Geometric Melody of Late Modernism.
His artistic style
Qadri's work is directly linked to Palestinian history and includes the social and historical issues of the Palestinians, freeing himself from traditional patterns through his use of modern and simple drawing by integrating the Palestinian experience with the Russian artistic heritage. In 2003, he began his artistic project towards the style of abstract painting, through which he questions the aesthetics of art in the Palestinian context under colonialism, and how art can become socially meaningful and preserve the national identity founded on the idea of tragedy and catastrophe.
His artistic topics
In his early works between the years (1996-2003), his theme is the homeland , and this is evident in the painting “Nahf” (1999), a view of the houses of Nahf from outside the village at a distance from the foothills, and we see small houses and the minaret of the mosque that seem to represent nostalgia for the past. He has a series of drawings about olive trees between 2002 and 2003. In this series, he moved from representing a single tree to a number of trees, and the three-dimensional technique was adopted in this series in the form of a square grid. Then, in the subjects of his works after 2002, he moved to the abstract style. In recent years, Qadri has adopted geometric shapes as his artistic language that does not represent reality but aims to present the logic of the composition, materially and formally.
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He held his first exhibition in St. Petersburg in 2002, at the Russian Cultural Center in Jaffa in 2009, an exhibition on abstraction in Umm al-Fahm in 2014, and the exhibition on deconstruction of form at the Zawiya Gallery in Ramallah in 2017.
He participated in a number of group exhibitions, including: Beit Bayout Exhibition in Bethlehem in 2018, Memory of Migration Exhibition in Umm al-Fahm in 2012, Passport Exhibition at Darat al-Funun in Jordan in 2008, and From the Vanguard to the Present Day with the Saint Petersburg Artists Union in 2003.
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