Al Assmaa Essam Takieddine
Syria/Egypt
email:
assmaanoga@hotmail.com
Biography
 A
Syrian artist from a Turkish mother born in Kuwait 1981,
Assmaa graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts
(sculpture) at Helwan University, CAIRO/EGYPT in 2004.
She was fortunate to be trained by leading Egyptian
artists like ABED AL HADY EL WISHAHY , FAROUQ IBRAHIM,
AHMED GAD AND MA’AMON AL SHIKH.
After graduation she started her career as an interior
designer with her family’s owned company (NOKOUSH), a
leading company and design atelier specialized in Arabic
and Islamic interior work and furnishing trying to
revive the Islamic heritage.
She opened her eyes to see the beauty of our Islamic
culture and started to translate that love in to her
paintings, influenced by the Ottoman, Syrian and
Egyptian cultures. She focuses to creating new
techniques by using different kinds of traditional
fabrics such as (brocade)--“Syrian silk on silk textiles
loomed and dyed with all natural pigments hand made in
Syria.” Her works reflect the Arabic traditions with and
oriental spirit using strong powerful colors and several
effects such as hatching and embossing. Her love
for Islamic motifs appears al most in all her work
Assmaa participated in many collective exhibitions like:
-The youth salon (opera house)
2001-2006
-The foreigner salon
2003,2006
-Participated with Dr. AHMED NOWAAR in (Palestine 50
years of occupation ) 2004
-Caravan Festival of the Arts (Harmony--East and West )
at St. John’s Church in Maadi with leading Egyptian and
non-Egyptian artists.
-solo (faces) at NOKOUSH gallery 2007
-solo(suffy)at NOKOUSH gallery 2009
- solo easel and camera art gallery 2010
-solo AL KAHILA art gallery 2010
ASSMAA was chosen by the Tribal Truth (UNICEF)
organization to represent the Middle Eastern women
artists. A lot of Assmaa’s work is held by art lovers in
many parts of the world: USA, FRANCE, CANADA, LONDON,
SPAIN, SYRIA, LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA, DUBAI, BAHRAIN and
KUWAIT.
You can find Assmaa’s work at:
NOKOUSH
7b road 199 Degla Maadi
Tel. 0225191204/ 0225191739
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