Etel Adnan
Simone Fattal
1925 - 2021
Born in Beirut (LB), died in Paris (FR).
Etel Adnan is a polymath – at once a philosopher, poet, writer and visual artist. Having lived in Lebanon, America and France, Adnan’s art and writing have typically considered such subjects as conflict, belief, nature and the human condition. Adnan’s works as a visual artist, specifically her ‘leporello’ folded-paper works, combine text with vivid imagery. Floating between sculpture and painting, poetry and image, these works defy easy categorisation.
Works
>Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose, 1982.Artist Novel, ink, paper, 14.61 x 18.42 cm, 106 p., language : English, publisher : The Post-Apollo Press, Sausalito, CA, ISBN : 978-0942996333.
>Etel Adnan, Untitled (Album à dessin), 1990.Drawing, crayon, pencil, watercolour on paper, 24 x 31.2 x 3 cm.
>Etel Adnan, Paris, When It's Naked, 1993.Artist Novel, ink, paper, 13.97 x 20.32 cm, 115 p., language : English, publisher : Post Apollo Press, ISBN : 978-0942996203.
>Etel Adnan, Forêts, 2000-2005.Other, watercolor and china ink on paper (leporello), (32 x 32 cm) x 26 pages.
>Etel Adnan, Freedom of People, Freedom of Plants, Freedom of Nature, 2011.Realized Work, leporello: ink, color and oil pastels, 18.1 x 285.6 cm .
>Etel Adnan, Kassaed Bain Chajer (Poetry between Trees), 2012.Realized Work, leporello: japanese ink, 24.5 x 504 cm .
>Etel Adnan, Phoenician Alphabet II, 2017.Drawing, china ink on paper, 37 x 60 cm.
>Etel Adnan, Surge, 2018.Artist Novel, ink, paper, 13.97 x 20.96 cm, 56 p., language : English, publisher : Nightboat Books, ISBN : 9781937658854.
>Etel Adnan, Les oliviers III, 2019.Drawing, pencil and ink on booklet, 18 x 12 cm .
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. 08 October 2021 - 23 January 2022.
> Exhibition: Museum in Motion. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Etel Adnan. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.