Nabil Anani
Palestine, Land and People
Nabil Anani, Barghouti Mourid, Makhoul Bashir, Anani Rana, Sherwell Tina, Shabout Nada, Khaldi Lara, Shehada Housni Alkhateeb
By Nabil Anani
Contributions by Barghouti Mourid, Makhoul Bashir, Anani Rana, Sherwell Tina, Shabout Nada, Khaldi Lara and Shehada Housni Alkhateeb
About the Book
Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the past five decades, pioneering the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper.
Considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement, Anani’s development as an artist has run in parallel with major events in recent Palestinian history. His work reflects the lived Palestinian experience, exhibiting distinctive responses to issues of exile, dislocation, conflict, memory and loss. Anani’s artistic vision restores and celebrates a denied and often-forgotten reality, his work re-igniting memory.
Bringing together more than 150 of Nabil Anani’s works, this monograph also includes contributions from acclaimed Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti as well as from leading Middle Eastern art historians, Rana Anani, Lara Khaldi, Bashir Makhoul, Nada Shabout, Housni Alkhateeb Shehadeh and Tina Sherwell.