Nizar Al Hattab | Nostalgia. 2021

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Dr. Nizar Al Hattab

Nizar Al Hattab is a Syrian visual artist born in 1969 in Aleppo. Based in the Netherlands since 2019, he lives and works in Gouda.
Hattab is an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and graduated from the Schools of the Sons of Martyrs and the Beirut School of Fine Arts. Between 1993 and 1998, he worked as a teacher of aesthetics and visual communication in the schools of the sons of martyrs in Aleppo. He is an art restorer and interior designer.
From 2003 to 2019, he worked as a fingerprint and fraud detection expert at the Syrian Ministry of Justice.
Nizar Al Hattab was assigned as an ambassador of Arab heritage and visual arts for the World Peace Academy.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions both in his country, Syria and in Arab countries and Europe. He received numerous distinctions and honorary medals. Over time, he became a master and an essential reference in the world of art.

Nizar El Hattab cherishes his country, Syria because it is a cradle of civilizations. Unfortunately, it is currently being ruined by hatred and greed. He paints to express the concerns of the poor, tortured Syrian man as well as the tormented human being, Arab and international, who only dreams of inner peace. His artistic ambition is the human aspiration towards peace for all the oppressed on earth and to spread love in the Arab world, which unfortunately is far from love and humanity.
The main source that inspires it is the emotion and human feeling of the mother towards her children. The mother generally symbolizes the homeland. But his country is wounded like the other tormented countries on our earth. His painting style can be classified into the schools of expressionism and surrealism.

Based in Gouda in the Netherlands since 2019, his works are appreciated in Europe. His paintings exude passion and emotion. Every square centimeter tells the story of a people. Nizar Al Hattab paints with his soul. The woman, omnipresent in her works, carries within herself all the symbolism of femininity, the earth, the mother, the homeland, beauty, freedom, and hope. With him, the feminine is always sublimated.
After everything he has experienced and lost, he manages to explode his palette to continue celebrating the symphony of life in colors.
The pictorial universe of Nizar Al Hattab carries within it a message, a true symbolic, and a unique imprint. It draws its strength and energy from the roots of an ancestral culture that has become universal.

• Member of the Syrian Plastic Artists Union.
• A judicial technical expert at the Ministry of Justice and the Syrian courts with knowledge of fingerprints, handwriting, signatures, and forgery detection.
• Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts and Aesthetics from Syria.
• An international commercial arbitrator in alternative settlements.
• Solo exhibitions- Over seventy exhibitions in Aleppo, Damascus, and several Arab and Western countries.
• Participated in many exhibitions and art forums since 1997.
• He holds many certificates of appreciation and medals.