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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Zuhdi 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 fine arts 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 and returned to Palestine in 2004. A book about him, by Ismail Al-Nashef, was published entitled On Palestinian Abstraction: Zuhdi Qadri and the Geometric Melody of Late Modernism.
His artistic style
Qadri's work is directly linked to Palestinian history and incorporates the social and historical issues of Palestinians, breaking free from traditional patterns through his use of modern and simple painting, integrating the Palestinian experience with Russian artistic heritage. In 2003, he began his artistic project towards an abstract painting style, 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 the Nakba.
His artistic themes
In his early works, from 1996 to 2003, his theme was the homeland . This is evident in the painting "Nahf" (1999), a view of the houses of Nahf from outside the village, at a distance from the hillside. We see small houses and the minaret of the mosque, which seem to represent nostalgia for the past. He also made a series of drawings of 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 used in this series in the form of a square grid. After 2002, he moved to an abstract style in the themes of his works. In recent years, Qadri has adopted geometric shapes as his artistic language, which does not represent reality but rather aims to present the logic of composition, both materially and formally.
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He held his first exhibition in Saint 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 Avant-Garde to the Present Day with the Saint Petersburg Artists Union in 2003.
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