 The Sakakini Centre in cooperation with the League of Palestinian Artists presents the artworks of the deceased artist Mustafa Al Hallaj, who has died aged 64 and was Syria’s most famous artists. He was a pioneer who not only devoted himself to the lost homeland- Palestine- but tried to turn Palestine into the form and content of his artistic school. Al Hallaj represents a unique Arab artistic case; Arab critics agreed to nickname Al Hallaj “icon of contemporary Arab graphic arts.” He specialized in research and renewal in the field of graphic art and sculpture. His painting entitled “Improvisations of Life” is a unique case in the history of the plastic arts. The painting is 114 meters long aimed to be visual memories and recollections and a record of the continued civilization days starting from 10000 years ago but still open to where the myths and fertility mix with the Intifada of the Palestinians. Born in Salma, Jaffa region in Palestine in 1938, his family moved to Damascus when he was 10 years old. Mustafa Al-Hallaj studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Cairo and completed his higher studies at Al-Aqsur in 1964. Al-Hallaj won several local and international awards and prizes. Mustafa was generous, open and adept at turning adversity to advantage in art. Mustafa Al-Hallaj, defender of genuine arts, born in 1938, died December 17, 2002, trying to salvage his artworks from burning in his personal studio last January.
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