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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Suleiman Mansour, a Palestinian plastic artist and sculptor (born in Birzeit, Ramallah in 1947). He used raw materials from the Palestinian environment (clay on wood - antique pottery - henna - built on wood - clay, henna and watercolors - burlap). And Al-Aqsa Rock on his back tied with a rope of misery.
his upbringing
He was born in Birzeit and spent his childhood in the Palestinian countryside between Birzeit and Beit Jala, where he continued his primary education in a boarding school in Beit Jala, due to the death of his father when he was four years old. Before the 1967 war, he joined his mother, who had settled in the suburbs of Jerusalem. After the occupation, he entered the Beit Salal Academy of Arts and Crafts (1967-1970).
Professional life
(1985-1987) He co-authored the book (Palestinian Folk Clothing) and the book (Palestinian Embroidery Guide) published by the Inash Al-Usra Association in Al-Bireh, of which he was a member of its board of directors. He worked in the field of teaching art at the Women's House (UNRWA) in Ramallah (1975-1982), and in the field of developing craft industries at Birzeit University. Member of the Administrative Board of the Palestinian Plastic Artists Association since 1975 and its president in the period (1986-1990). He teaches at the International Academy of Contemporary Arts in Ramallah and is a member of its board of directors.
his art
Mural on the wall of the Family In’ash Foundation, Al-Bireh, Palestine, by Suleiman Mansour and Nabil Anani
He practiced oil painting, drawing political caricatures in the local press, and illustrations in educational books. He also produced gypsum reliefs, hammered on copper, inlaid it, poured enamel on it, burned wood, crafted ceramics, designed political posters, and photographed mosaic murals of ecclesiastical themes. However, his main focus was on oil and mud works, as he began producing mud works in 1989 as part of the harbingers of the first intifada and using local materials as a political stance, as he came to invent ways that enhance self-sufficiency by relying on local resources in all aspects of daily life as a natural extension To boycott Israeli consumer goods and the fact that he acquired from his grandmother in his childhood the craft of building bee houses using a mixture of poplar mud and hay.
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He held several personal exhibitions, including: Gallery 79 - Ramallah, 1981. United Nations Headquarters, New York 1992. Sharjah Biennial 1995 . Stavanger Town Hall, Norway, 1996. The Ninth Cairo Biennale 1998. He participated in several group exhibitions in Palestine, Washington, Beirut, Moscow, Oslo, Kuwait, Morocco, New York, Amman, Stockholm, Paris, Korea, Qatar, Asilah (Morocco).
Achievements and Awards
awards
He won several awards, including: the first prize in the first spring exhibition, Palestine, 1985. And the Palestine Prize for Fine Arts in 1998. The Grand Prize at the Ninth Cairo Biennale in 1998, and the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture for the year 2019.
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