Adeeb Makhzoum

Adeeb Makhzoum
Artist, visual critic and music historian
Founding member of the Society of Critics and Researchers
• In 2010, he published a book (Currents of Modernity in the Syrian Formation), which is an encyclopedic and critical volume, elegant and luxurious printing, coated paper and colors, in which he documented 100 years of modern and contemporary Syrian plastic art.
• Published a collection of poetry (I love you more in the blackness of the coming time) 2013.
• Participated since the end of the seventies in a wide range of exhibitions and festivals inside and outside Syria (including some sessions of the annual general exhibition of Syrian artists autumn exhibition).
• A group of joint exhibitions with artists Ahmed Mualla and Imad Mahmoud at the Cultural Center in Tartous at the end of the seventies.
Solo exhibition at the Opera House in summer 2016
• Solo exhibition at the Opera House Spring 2020
• Solo exhibition at Al Riwaq Hall 2021
• Solo exhibition in the Social Forum Hall 2022
• Joint exhibition in Al-Riwaq gallery, with the artist Ayman Fadda Radwan 2016.
• Participated in the (Pablo Picasso) International Exhibition in (Spain, Málaga) on the occasion of his birth anniversary on October 25, 2020.
• Held four archival musical and lyrical exhibitions (Opera House 2015, Cultural Abu Rummaneh Cultural 20152017 Kafr Sousse 2020).
• Member of the Syrian Plastic Artists Union.
• Member of the Union of Arab Journalists.
• Founding member of the Association of Critics and Plastic Researchers, emanating from the Union of Artists.
• Holder of a certificate of appreciation from the Ministry of Culture 2019.
• Holder of the shield of the Directorate of Culture of Damascus 2019.
• Holder of a certificate of appreciation from the Fine Arts Syndicate 1996.
• KINGDOM UNITED WORLD MEDIA DIALOQUE CERTIFIED
• Some graduate students, inside and outside Syria, used his writings in the steps of preparing theses, master’s and doctoral degrees, in plastic art
• He has thousands of studies, articles, angles and dialogues published in Arab newspapers and magazines (the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir Herald Middle East, which is issued in Sydney, Australia, the Syrian Plastic Life Quarterly Magazine, Dubai Cultural Magazine – Kuwaiti Arts Sharjah Cultural Magazine, the Syrian Revolution Newspaper, and others) • He has hundreds of interviews, appearances and critical participations, in television and radio programs. He also has dozens of lectures and participation in conferences, festivals and art seminars. He has taken the initiative to organize and hold several exhibitions and seminars in honor, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.
• Some of his paintings have been included in the holdings of the Opera House, the Ministry of Culture, the Artists Union, and in private collections, inside and outside Syria.
• He has a wide interest in musical and lyrical art and owns more than a thousand old records for all peoples’ music, along with thousands of old art magazines, covers and historical photosRare, for the top stars of music and singing in the East and West.
• Met with some of the top stars of music and singing in the Arab world in lengthy dialogues.
• He has several books in formation and music under print.
• His partner in the journey of life, Maysa Daghma, and he has a son and daughter (Rani graduated from the Institute of Teacher Training in Tartous, Art Education) and (Marilyn, a student at the University of Tartous, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Engineering, third year).

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