Nabil Anani

Palestinian artist

Nabil Anani (Arabic: نبيل عناني born 1943), is a Palestinian artist^[1] and one of the founders of the contemporary Palestinian art movement.^[2]

Biography

After his graduation in 1969, from the faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University,^[3] Anani returned to Palestine to start his career as an artist and trainer at the UN training college in Ramallah.^[4] His first exhibition in Jerusalem was in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. He was appointed in 1998 as the head of the League of Palestinian Artists and was a key player in establishing the first International Academy of Art in Palestine.^[5] Because his art was an expression of collective identity it encountered the military censorship of Israeli authorities, the combined use of four colors of the Palestinian flag was prohibited and he, together with the other members of the league, was subjected to arrest and interrogation.^[6]

Nabil was also awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 by Yasser Arafat.^[7]

Selected exhibitions

2014: "Life before 1948", Zawyeh art gallery, Ramallah^[8]^[9]
2013: "Spirit of the land", Art on 56th, Beirut
2011: "Art Palestine", Meem Gallery, Dubai^[10]
2007: "A Journey into Script", Foyles Gallery, London
2001: Sharjah Biennial
1995: "It’s possible, Palestinian and Israeli artists", National Museum, Washington

Memorials

During his career, Nabil Anani was commissioned to work on building memorials in Palestine:

1986 Statue of aluminum front of the Inash Family Association building, in collaboration with Suleiman Mansour
1987 mural front of Faculty of Educational Sciences and the College of Women's Society, Ramallah
1993 Metal memorial statue in Kaukab Abu al-Hija park, Galilee
2002 Statue of Liberty in Ramallah^[11]

References

^ Semi, Emanuela Trevisan (5 December 2013). Memory and Ethnicity: Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora. p. 140. ISBN 9781443854665.
^ Ankori, Gannit (2006). Palestinian Art. pp. 223. ISBN 978-1861892591.
^ Miller, Jonathan (5 January 2012). "The Art Of Occupation". Gulf Business. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ Art Palestine: Nabil Anani, Tayseer Barakat, Sliman Mansour. Art Advisory Associates Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978-1907051142.
^ Khoury, Maria (23 February 2015). "Celebrate Vinfest in Taybeh, Palestine". The Arab Daily News. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ Mattar, Philip (2005). Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Infobase Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
^ Ovo, Podjeli (22 April 2014). "The Palestine of Nabil Anani: Colorful, but not Happy". Middle East Revised. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014.
^ "Art of Memory: Life Before 1948". Zawyeh. 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ Irving, Sarah (19 December 2014). "Pre-1948 Palestine brought to life in Nabil Anani's paintings". Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ "Art Palestine". Meem Gallery. 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ "Palestinian's protest against U.S. with mock Statue of Liberty". Haaretz. Associated Press. 31 October 2002. Retrieved 12 June 2024.