Jad Salman

Jad Salman Mouse (2007)

Palestinian Painter & Sculptor
PARIS - France
00 33 6 42 78 36 16
www.jadsalman.ps

Life, studies and work in Paris - 2007 - ongoing

Since Jad Salman has settled down in his studio near LaPlace, he has been mainly writing his thesis about wall murals as they exist in Palestine and how these murals are reflected in his work. At the same time, he has been experimentating as of late with colours and working on a larger surface.

In his studio brown paper spans two walls perpendicular to each other. At first he had put it just there to protect the walls against possible splashes of colours but when sitting there and enjoying one of his cigarettes, he kept thinking about this space. Then he could no longer bear the emptiness and started to draw on this paper shapes which resemble blood under the microscope or else cells of plants. The organic sense for life he has from having grown up in Palestine amidst an olive grove and his father showing him everything from plants to birds.

Studies at Saint Denis University, Paris

Prof. Monique Kissel, Art Professor in Picasso's atelier, Nov. 1, 2010

Starting out from graphic design, he has worked himself over to be only a painter. He studied and lived in Ramallah before coming to Paris. As this meant to him not only attending classes among others those given by Monique Kissel, but visiting exhibitions and getting to know fellow artists while learning the French language, it meant absorbing a lot at one and the same time.

He has a keen sense for painting being like the Arabic way of writing a way to let loose out of the wrist the paint brush. The image of feathers spread out and sometimes distorted due to having become wet, presses upon one's mind when noticing some of these signs in his paintings. Or lines curling back create horns to give shape to the bull very much as did Picasso when transforming objects into something else. This elevation to another level of meaning means the imagination responds to reality and vice versa.

HF 17.4.2010

2005 Torino: Youth festival organized by PEACE WAVES and Poiein kai Prattein - first meeting with Jad Salman while painting with others, including two girls from Israel, a peace mural

2007 ECCM Symposium 'Productivity of Culture' and Kids' Guernica Exhibition held at Zappeion in Athens, June to which Jad Salman brought a small mural painted by Palestinian children in Ramallah