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Première exposition personnelle à Rome 2017

Invitation card: Keam Tallaa, “da Damasco a Roma, Pane”, 21 September – 5 October 2017, opening Thursday 21 September 2017 at 7 pm, Stamperia del Tevere, in collaboration with Diagonali and Labor Intus. On the right, a bread print on a blue ground.

First solo exhibition, Rome · 2017

Da Damasco a Roma, Pane · Stamperia del Tevere, Rome · 21 September – 5 October 2017

At the end of the summer of 2017 I was in Rome, preparing a solo exhibition. I made a series of prints of bread dough on paper, for an exhibition titled From Damascus to Rome.

Human existence, like bread, will continue its cycle.

Texte original (français)

À la fin de l’été 2017 je suis à Rome, en train de préparer une exposition personnelle. J’ai réalisé une série de travaux d’impression de pâte à pain sur papier, pour une exposition intitulée « De Damas à Rome ».

L’existence humaine, comme le pain, continuera son cycle.

Exhibition view: a large round black print of bread dough hanging on a white wall; in the foreground, two visitors seen against the light look at it.
The exhibition Da Damasco a Roma, Pane, Stamperia del Tevere, Rome, 2017.

Francesca Pietracci, art critic, introduction to the exhibition

Pane (Bread) is the title of the work of Keam Tallaa, a young Syrian artist from Damascus, and it sets the tone of her new project in Europe. Bread understood as physical and mental nourishment, bread as the essence of survival and of culture. Her arrival in Rome marks a fixed point in her cultural and existential journey: a place where, in a certain way, she finds similarities with her native city, thanks to the ancient stones embedded in today’s city and to the open, warm character of its inhabitants. A unique occasion, then, to meet in person an artist and a woman who has much to tell about the meaning of art.

Her work Pane is made with flour, water and colour, with which she has developed a new printmaking technique. Her bread is made of matter and of writing: abstract signs, engraved from memory, reaching back to the cultural heritage of her land, more than 5,000 years old. The Stamperia del Tevere will show her works as a symbol of dialogue between peoples and cultures, a commitment that has marked the work of young and exemplary printmakers for several years, with projects in Italy and abroad.

Testo originale (italiano)

Si intitola “Pane” l’opera di Keam Tallaa, giovane artista siriana proveniente da Damasco, che segna la cifra del suo nuovo progetto di lavoro in Europa. Pane inteso come alimento fisico e mentale, pane come essenza di sopravvivenza e di cultura. Il suo arrivo a Roma segna un punto fermo del suo itinerario culturale ed esistenziale, un luogo dove riesce, in un certo modo, a trovare similitudini con la sua città natale, grazie alle pietre millenarie inglobate nel centro abitato attuale e al carattere aperto e cordiale dei suoi abitanti. Un’occasione unica, dunque per incontrare personalmente un’artista e una donna che ha molto da raccontare sul significato di arte.

La sua opera “Pane” è realizzata attraverso farina, acqua e colore, con i quali è riuscita a realizzare una nuova tecnica incisoria. Il suo pane è costituito di materia e di scrittura. Si tratta di cifre astratte, incise a memoria e risalenti al patrimonio culturale della sua terra risalente a oltre 5.000 anni fa. La Stamperia del Tevere esporrà le sue opere come simbolo di dialogo tra popoli e culture, impegno che caratterizza il lavoro di giovani ed esemplari incisori da diversi anni con progetti sia in Italia che all’estero.