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- During the last decade of my experience; i.e. from 1982; I have adopt the idea, or the project which man can call the searching of innocence. It is du to the circumstances we live, this is mixed with details of mythology which can be listed under the unit of world creature, lighted with abstracted region of the same area.
- First artwork of mine was collected by the Modern Art 'Museum Organization year 1966
followed by a lot of collections till the year I left from Iraq 1997 I do not know what has happened to my works which presented a great part of my personal history, after the catastrophe of 2003, as well I do not know about that archive which contents my photo album of my artworks , now I have very little photos of my previous artworks.
Born in Iraq , Studied painting in Baghdad .
At present, I live and work in Sweden .
Great number of my artistic works was exhibited in one man Shows in some distinguished
galleries in Iraq . Jordan , London , and Sweden .
Since the beginning I participated in group and collective exhibitionism Iraq , Moscow , Berlin , Havana , Cairo , Kuwait , Jordan , Finland , Vienna , StPetersburg, Copenhagen , and Sweden .
Najjar Ali
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Meeting Ali Najjar and experiencing his work and world is a spiritual experience in its own right. Najjar has been through the crucible of turbulent Iraq and emerged purified of all the dross accrued around the creative ego. He has transmuted his experience of imprisonment and betrayal, of loss and displacement and of a life threatening illness into a serenity that can only be
described as sublime. Najjar is above all an exquisite artist with immense faith in the healing power of creativity, both for himself and for the world. His
installation and paintings about his experience of cancer is one of the most moving testimonies to the unconquerable and imperishable human spirit that I know. And yet Najjar is quietly animated by a belief that creative passion realises itself in sharing, rather than in possession. His art is an act of faith, multi-sensorious and heart-centred. It addresses and resonates in the deepest recesses of our psyche.
The close attunement with and respect for both the site and the moment of Turku's ancestors arrival is reflected in the design and installation theme, as evidenced notably in his quotation of the distinctive Nordic brow of the settler's boat, itself derived fro in the curved skis of their snow sledges. Rivers have played distinctive roles in the development of human civilisation and
deified the world over. Najjar's installation looks like an offering to the river god. One cannot help thinking that between Najjar's ritualised desire to provide for the people of the world and the attempts elsewhere to privatise the ownership of nature-given grains lay the hungry children of Africa. The hunger for food of all Earth's children should resonate in our hearts because of the empathic requirements of global civilisation now. But also because of the hunger for natural justice residing in each human hearth and that Najjar,s installation awakens gently. Hunger in all its form, for things tangible and intangible, is the most insistent call to the human consciousness for the power of synthesis, and therefore a stimulation for its creativity. Aptly so, at a time when the reversal of the tides of affluence inspires powerful nations to raid the the reversal of weark ones. Global humanity needs to assimilate the lessons of sharing as a condition of its survival, urgently.
Najjar's work speaks of a decentralised self, of its empathic radiation into the world. He inhabits the world through his senses, fully and unobtrusively. He has become a citizen of the world through the entitlement of his own and shared aesthetics. Food reminds us of the impermanence of the sensuous self, reflected in Najjar's locating part of his installation on the water, and of the corresponding permanence of the human spirit and its resonance in the collective self withe whom our ego is twinnend; but it is a pemanence that nevertheless is wholly reliant on the gifts of the environment. Grain, like sand and powder, provide installation artists with accessories and expressive possibilities. Najjar uses it in a more focused way. Indeed, migrants have the habit of carrying seeds from their gardens and orchnrds on their journeys to new homelands. The seeds become emblematic of the seeds of their becoming. Our fatally complete dependency on the complex but capricious global financial industries risks eclipsing the fact that the humble grain is the basic unit of human economy, the building block for all our longings and aspirations. Rice, wheat and Dahl are sacred to billions in our world, in the realm of dreams they feed the soul as well as the body. This defines the reading of Najjar's work, for it is indeed soul-inspired, as his experiences have steered his life closely to his soul. As the sacred texts of many cultures suggest, the deeper symbolism of boat and water require us to think soul-wise, for it takes us into the overlapping areas between existential realms, where we reach the limits of worldly possibilities and the opening onto new ones. Najjar's installation is both an archetypal image of destiny and a reminder of the need to leave the safe centre of individuality and navigate towards the outer limits of possibilities, , in the margins of heresy where the creative seeds of our becoming are to be found.
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Jacques Rangasamy
2011
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