 Camille
Allam
-Head of workshop
and member of the jury of Diplomas at the Lebanese University.
-Diploma in Painting and Sculpture at the Academy Artium- Madrid.
-Diploma in Interior Design from the University Holy Spirit Kaslik.
-Master in Landscape Architecture and Environement.- Lebanese University
Hadath
-Studies of
Musicology at the Holy Spirit University Kaslik
-Lebanese member
of the Association of the painters and sculptors - Beirut.
-Member of the International association of the painters and sculptors
– United Nations.
-Member of Association Stairs of Art – Gemayze.
Latest Studies:
Development
for ART applications in Adobe Flash 2011
3D Landscaping Techniques 2011
Latest
projects:
Art for Healing Project: Using art as therapy by making art in various
fields during healing process ,in hospital and outside – 2011 .
www. beirut-diet.blogspot.com
The Art Library: mixing bookshop and art exhibition, at Librairie
Allam,,Sursock Museum Street, Ashrafieh - 2011
Creation of the first Puppet Museum of Lebanon, Musée des
marionette : Architectural Design and execution of 25, 4 meters
original artistical boards for live display
Cardboard design:
furniture with cardboard: camilallam.com/cardboarddesign, 2011
Creation of
the comic book: the true stories of Antonio in the USA
Initials art
project: lettering, initials and quotes as paintings.
Latest
Art:
Me v/s Me– art performance and video installation 2011.
Environmental sculpture: the giant: 6 meters assembly 2011
Art - installation: at Université Libanaise, 2011
The Miniature
Paintings Serie 2009-2011
Participation since 1985 in the most important exhibitions collective
and individual:
- Gallery Broumana Plaza--1985
- Chahine gallery 100 years of art in Lebanon – Verdun -Beyrouth1986
- Gab center Ashrafieh-1986
- Rumours Galery -1988 - Kaslik
- Movement Culturel Tripoli -1989
- Exhibition Portemilio-Chahine 1989
- Chahine gallery -ART in Lebanon –1994
- Creation of the first art piece in branches of trees – DeirelQamar-1994
- Creation of the first art piece from Silicone : Silicone Painting
-1995
- Exclusive exhibition of works to Dar el Founoun- LBC- Adma 1995
- Workshop at Deir el Kamar 1995
- Exhibition at Gallery RIZK ADVERTISING -1996
- Living room of Arts - Maraya-1998- Furn el Cheback
- Joudraniyat exposure ART and the City- SYNDICAT DES INGENIEURS-1998
- INTERNATIONAL exhibition ARTUEL of Beirut-1998
- Creation of the first human sculpture in branches of jasmine -1999
–Atelier Allam
- XXème Exhibition of Museum SURSOCK -1998
- Exhibition at EPREUVE D’ARTISTE -1999
- Association of Development of Gemayzé 2000-2005
- NDU annual art exhibition- 2000-2005 - DeirelKamar
- ARTUEL PHOENICIA SYMPOSIUM of the contemporary art -2002
- Exhibition of the whole of works AT THE MUSEUM Of ART of Deir
el Qamar -2004
- Symposium of CONTEMPORARY ART - BIEL -2004
- Individual exhibition - Stairs of Art - Gemaize- 2005
- Permanent exhibition at Sursock Street Workshop
- OPEN WORKSHOP - Sursock Street 2000-2006
- Hadath Club Personnal Retrospective Exhibition -2008
- Hadath Festival Personnal Sculptures Exhibition -2009
- Deir el Qamar Estivales – Art in the Palace – 2009
- Estivales de Deir El Qamar - Art Exhibition - 2010
- JBEIL FESTIVAL Personnal Sculptutres Exhibition -2010
- NDU DIASPORA EXHEBITION Downtown Dome Space 2010
- SLEEP-COMFORT Art Exhibition 2011
Opinion:
For Camille
Allam, creation does not have limits and his dream is to go on the
MOON, amalgamating, with lunar dust his creations.
One day, in
1985, discovering a cluster of branches of trees and brushwood thrown,
at Deir El Qamar, in the field, he foresees the features of a face
then of a human body: The Natural Man has just been born and the
series of the NATURAL ART will begin.
But nothing seems to stop him in so good way and similar discoveries
will further bring him in the paths of creation.
In 1990
while handling silicone, he immediately discovered out the capacity
of this matter to collect and to channel the light: by adding pigments
to it, PAINTING WITH SILICONE had been born. He is prided to be
the pioneer for it: ” I do not tend to prove
Something, it is just an idea but it is mine”
Then it was
the cock, the cat, the croco, the gazelle, the dunkie , the dino,
and the other fantastic animals.
L’ agenda
culturel (2006):
Chercheur infatigable,
les rencontres de Camille Allam avec des matières semblent
le guider toujours plus loin dans son parcours créatif. Sa
série d'Art Naturel est née d'un amas de branchages
à travers lequel il entrevit un jour une esquisse de visage
et de corps humain; c'est en manipulant fortuitement du silicone
que la capacité de cette matière à capter la
lumière l'a mené à l'utiliser comme base de
peinture en y mélangeant des pigments, puis vint la série
des animaux fantastiques...
L'éclectique
Camille Allam est diplômé en architecture intérieure
et en musicologie de l'USEK, et en peinture de l'Académie
Artium de Madrid. Chef d'atelier et membre du jury de diplôme
à l'Université Libanaise, il est aussi membre de l'Association
des peintres et sculpteurs libanais, de l'Association internationale
des peintres et sculpteurs, et de celle de l'Escalier de l'Art à
Gemayzé.
Depuis 1985,
il a participé aux plus importante expositions collectives
du Liban tout en présentant son parcours personnel dynamique
lors d'expositions individuelles. Ses œuvres sont en exposition
permanente à l'Atelier de la rue Sursock. (Sursock Street
Workshop).
Press
Articles :
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AVEC CAMILLE ALLAM, VOYAGE ENTRE DEUX MONDES (L’Orient Le Jour):
A la recherche de l'objet à récupérer: Exposition
Escalier de l’Art - Gemmayzé
Pour Camille
Allam, tout a commencé un jour où, découvrant
dans un amas de morceaux de fer jetés des objets inutilisables,
il va créer des œuvres d'art.
D'abord est né un coq avec des couleurs primaires, puis un
chat noir et blanc, puis une gazelle, un crocodile... Il travaille
dur à tordre les branches de fer auxquelles il a ajouté
boulons, grosses pinces. Et cela donne un effet superbe.
Camille a fait
des études de décoration à l'Université
de Kaslik et travaille dans ce domaine quand il n'est pas dans son
atelier à essayer d'apprivoiser entre le fer, le bois, le
papier, auxquels il donne des couleurs qui charment du premier regard.
Il s'est mis à la sculpture depuis toujours, ses œuvres sont
dans des collections pri¬vées,
Les animaux? Camille les a apprivoisés à sa manière
«c'est mon bestiaire fantastique» avoue-t-il et de se
demander si chacun de nous n'a pas envie de ciseler un animal qu'il
aime.
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Revue du LIBAN , Beirut, 2000, Sonia Nigolian):
All,
absolutely all, interests Camille Allam wrought Iron like paper
Journal, the straw like the brushwood, the vine stocks as branches
of a fig tree, stones like the natural pigments mixed with silicone...
The definition
which sticks best to this artist would be: Nothing is lost… All
is created.
Camille seeks through his work, to pass a message. The man, in this
finishing century, should redefine himself with respect to nature,
of his environment, which it so liberally " disfigured, before
facing the third millenium…
From where these astonishing sculptures that he calls his “Bio-Sculptures”.
Originating in Deir el-Kamar where he has his workshop, within the
framework of the “Estivals” of this area to the indefinable charm,
he opened the doors , to let enter the esthètes and the curious
.
Workshop doors open in Deir el-Kamar for Camille Allam:
The
artist and his work: To pay homage to nature, in this chaotic century.
We penetrated
his " cave ", where he likes to insulate himself to remake
the world and to create his " incipient sculptures ",
as he likes to define them.
There are humanoïdes foreign, sometimes decapitated, out of
wrought iron or straw, with volumes playing the vacuums and the
full …
This made bestiary of brushwood retained between them by straw…
There we found a very beautiful wrought iron cock and welded iron
repaints with the peak, of an unquestionable glare, with the dynamic
lines. : “the walkers will be interested, “also, with these
abstract forms, these species of puzzle consisted of branches that
Allam assembled to create these forms which spring in space, defying
weightlessness.
Any art in a determined society, carries out its own products according
to practical rules' which constitute the sum of the intuitions and
the experiments of the creators.
But Allam wants to turn
the back on our consumer society and to make ecological recovery.
In the silence of his workshop, he will recreate the world, will
represent the secret moment and determinant of a public act, an
individual contribution to the inheritance of the company and History.
In these run up against times, the dialectical tension which characterizes
this period can be expressed only by confusion reigning in the field
of esthetics.
Far from being unaware of these problems of the hour, Camille Allam
expresses in these compositions a beautiful poetic intensity, despite
chaotic current of this century, with natural basic materials, unified
by the force of the creative dash.
Then, there is the artist-painter, who, while wanting to give a
new light to its colors and relief with the forms, uses largely
of pigments mixed with silicone.
Camille Allam, there still, gives to see his " spherical "
works, allusion wanted to our planet…
It reigns in his abstract compositions much of freedom. Spaces where
the plans are complementary without never running up and running
down against the glance.
The artist reserves himself for the beings which he loves, people
curious about all that is done in the field of Art.
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At the Gallery Art La Rosette, Ashrafieh: To invest the color with
a structuring function: (Revue du Liban - 1996)
For
Camille Allam a new Technique which permit of the interesting reliefs
Camille ALLAM
is the first artist to propose his work on these surfaces with an
about sixty compositions worked with various media of which this
new technique which is in fact an erudite mixture of coloured natural
pigments and of silicone.
The rather convincing result leaves the priority to the light that
Allam structure and channels with ease.
And the artist
to leave pallet to imagination in full nature in order to completely
let himself invade by it, be inhabited by it.
Allam, although he is an architect of formation, head of workshop
at the U.L also folded with the hard disciplines of the Art schools
of Madrid sought only to transform its impressions into halation
of light, thus affirming its own vision of the world at the expense
of objective reality with the emancipation of the chromatic values.
To locate the Allam art is not easy.
A strange Universe of Signs
It should be
specified that we deal with a young artist who wants to be in permanent
research
call himmself unceasingly in question, touches abstraction, art
of the portrait, for then dividing its pictorial spaces of boxes
and register signs.
We prefer him when he throws his net, consistant network obtained
by silicone, to imprison characters with the molten silhouettes
or these spaces where he integrates these purified forms.
It is there that he is invested more and that he offers to the color
a structuring function, the same withdraw with the eyes that of
the traditional perspective, a coloured interpretation of reality,
channeled by the thought.
L'artiste dans son atelier
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Initials Art
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Contact: camilallam@yahoo.com
Online Portfolio: camilallam.com
Address: Atelier Open - Sursock Street, Tel:
961 1 323805 / 1 338115
Second Address: Atelier Camille Allam at Deir el Qamar (from
July to September).
Tel: 961 05 505409
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