Fadia Haddad at Galerie Alice Mogabgab

Fadia Haddad was born in Lebanon in 1959, she lives and works in France. She began studying painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. She received a French government scholarship in 1985, which allowed her to continue her training at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1988. In France, her work stands out from its inception, including the Salons of new realities for Young Painters, at Mont Rouge and other contemporary art events like Art in Paris, Brussels or art exhibition in institutes from Arab World.
She participates regularly in group exhibitions in Lebanon, the United States and Europe. Since 1995, the gallery Alice Mogabgab have regularly been in Beirut, Paris, London and Brussels. In 2003, the gallery publishes a book for bibliophiles Bird Stories, pictures and feelings, including ninety original paintings by the artist with texts by Harry Bellet, art critic for Le Monde.
In this series of painted masks in Lebanon during the summer of 2009, the artist shows a great economy of means. On white canvases, she puts her colorful works spontaneously and with quick movements and safety. The result, sometimes delicate and sometimes crude, reaching unprecedented simplicity in her work. Masks, flowers, masks, uterus, face-masks, crucifixes or birds, Fadia Haddad attempts to express the mystery and power of these themes that haunts her.