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 Tony
Hadjar Mardelli (1959 - 2007)
I- Biography:
Tony Mardelli – Hyper-Realistic Painter
Born in Aleppo, Syria 1948, emigrated to Venezuela in 1959.
Member of the Venezuelan Association of Artists (AVAP), card No.302
STUDIES:
1962-
Caracas: Complete study of drawing and colouring. Academia Politécnica
de Dibujo. (Instructor Albaya).
1965- Caracas: Pastel portrait study. (Atelier
Maestro Fidel Santa Maria)
1969-70- North Hollywood. California - short-term
design study.
Art Center College of Design.
1993- Caracas: Paper conservation study - National
Gallery of Art.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE: Graphic Arts and Portraits:
25 years as
Art Director of Publications Al-FIDA .
Saint George’s Cathedral. Caracas. .
Ad. Designs for magazines, book covers, triptics, posters, catalogues
and (LOGOS: 36 In Venezuela, 1 in USA, 4 in Taiwan and I in Panama).
PORTRAITS
COMMISSIONED FOR: President Hafez AI-Assad,
Domascus.Syria - Defense Minister Moustafa Tlas, Damascus-Syria
- President of Banco del Caribe Dr. Edgar Dao, Caracas - Bishop
Boutros Callaos. Aleppo Syria - Bishop Boutros Mryati, Aleppo-Syria-
Bishop Hilarion Cappucci, Caracas -
Ing. Fillippo Vagnoni, Caracas.
Over
200 paintings sold:
Venezuelan and
Middle East landscapes, portraits and still life in oil, acrylic
and pastel.
SOLO
EXHIBMONS :
2004 - Beirut
- Galerie Zomaan. AI Hamra.
2003 - Beirut - Ecole Patriacal. Academie des Houtes Etudes Diplomatiques.
2002- Beirut - Galerie Zomaan. AI Hamra.
2002- Beirut - Hotel Monroe. Kennedy Avenue.
2002- Beirut - Instituto Cervantes. (Spanish Cultural Center).
2002- Beirul - Rizk Plaza Private Club. Brummana.
1999- Caracas - Cenlro Ciudad Comercial Tamanaco. (Own Gallery)
3-D Paintings.
1992- Caracas - Headquarters of the Venezuelan Association of Artists
A V AP .
1986- Caracas - Headquarters of The Syrian- Venezuelan Women Association.
1985 - Caracas - Arab Arts & literature Fair. Saint George’s
Cathedral.
1984 - Caracas - Pro-Venezuela.
1978- Caracas - IV Fearab America International Congress.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS :
2000 - Caracas-
II Paintings Exhibition of Porroquia Altagracia, Cuadra Bolivar.
2000 - Miami - Venezuelan Consulate.
2000 - Caracas –Venezuelan-American Association of University Women.
VAAUW.
2000 - Caracas - Jovenes de hoy grandes maestros. Grupo L1.
1999-Caracas-Contemporary Venezuelan Masters. Hotel Intercontinental
Tamanaco.
1998- Caracas - lawyers College of Venezuela.
1998- Caracas - Artists festival. Ven-Art 1998. Corpbanca.
1997- Caracas - Second (All A V AP Artists Meeting I. Pro Venezuela).
1996- Caracas - first (All AVAP Artists Meeting I. Pro Venezuela).
1996- Around the country ( Different Expressions. Homage to Rodolfo
Minumboc).
1996- Caracas – 25th Anniversary of Maiquetia International Airport.
1996- Caracas - Municipal Comptrollership.
1994- Caracas - V Saloon of paintings & sculptures C.E. V.
1994 - Puerto 10 Cruz- Anniversary of C.E. V. (Invited Artist to
the Art Exhibition).
1994 - Caracas-Cosa de la Cultura, El Hatillo. ( Assoc. of Acuarelists
of Venezuela).
1994- Caracas - Catholic University Andres Bello. UCAB.
1993 - Caracas- IV Saloon of Paintings & Sculptures C.E .V.
(Invited Artist)
PRIZES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
1994- Caracas
- Presidency of The Venezuelan Association of Artists AVAP.
1994- Caracas - Honor Mention and Popular Prize. IV Soloon of Paintings
& Sculptures College of Engineers of Venezuela. C.E. V.
1993- Caracas - FONPRES. Women society of C.E.V. and AVAP.
1993- Caracas - Association of Arab Venezuelan Women.
1993- Caracas - Outstanding Artistic Consultant - FONPRES - C.E.V
1983 - Caracas - Arab -Venezuelan Youth.
1981 - Caracas - Arab - Venezuelan Theatre Group.
1980 - Caracas - Golden Brush Prize. Syrian- Venezuelan Women Association.
II- Artist Statement:
The Hyper-Realistic Paintings are commonly called
“The Observable Paintings” and my eternal obsession is to achieve
clear, neat and easily readable paintings, capturing sense of the
modern world while at the same time adhering to the traditions of
realism, instead of acting defensively against the forces of 20th
- century modernism that crippled previous generations of painters.
After living for more than forty years in Venezuela, I consider
myself lucky to come and live in Lebanon, where I’m presenting my
realism that is the result of a long journey of rehearsals and searches
for Excellence, in order to maintain the good name of the Venezuelan
Artists abroad.
III-
Articles:
1-
Peintre et concepteur graphique, Tony Hadyar Mardelli Adhère
à l'école du nouveau art figuratif, développant
un travail créatif au milieu du réalisme quotidien,
le présentant d' une manière impeccable a travers
sa réalité.
Images d'une beauté visible qui mènent a montrer le
cote invisible d'un language extrêmement clair et compréhensif,
revêtant les objets d'une signification nouvelle, accomplie
seulement grâce a un dévouement total.
Sa décision de présenter des objets
simple du quotidien est un genre d’isolation et de provocation,
il établit un dialogue intime entre le spectateur et son
travail qui montre la couleur tactile, le matériel doux et
la texture qui excèdent l'apparence illusionniste manifeste
par des sujets quotidiens.
Il n’y a pas
de doute que ce travail donne à Mardelli une qualification
intouchable d'un peintre professionnel aux expressions stylistiques
et ornementales exécutées avec des couleurs naturelles
et vivantes qui attirent.
L'expression caractéristique de Mardel1i pourrait causer
une certaine étrangeté, peur, surprise, et même
un certain rejet ou une simple fascination, convertissant le public
en un prisonnier libre de son art.
Blanca
Guzman - Présidente de l'association des artistes Vénézuéliens
1992 - 1996
2-
Tony Mardelli is an artist. His knowledge based on his wide artistic
culture promotes him as a worthy integral artist. There is nothing
strange to him in the world of visual arts and that is why and with
great liberality he has let himself go in the difficult profession
of teaching presenting a highly professional work and seminars in
the world of painting, plastic composition a drawing naturally.
The rich work of plastic composition of the painter
Mardelli has placed him under a very personal creativity regime
granting us different periods that surprised us due to the versatility
of the developed subjects to reach currently an excess of enlightening
and detailed hyper realism that is characterized by a technical
capacity and surprising creativity. We are front of trustworthy
artist, concerned with aspirations, that doesn’t settle for the
achieved work but on the contrary pursues his research to always
go beyond his work. We do see how he develops his work thru his
large sensitivity without any difficulty to reach a point where
he expresses with talent in all his showings.
These appreciations
are the result of a consistent follow up to the work of the painter
Mardelli. In Caracas, Venezuela we were able to enjoy this magnificent
work that characterized the painter Mardelli today as a unique artist
of high and expressive quality when he creates again in his language
an expressive and exquisite drawing.
Caracas, May 2003
Blanca
Guzman (signature)
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Chargé d’Affaires of the sculptures and murals. Museum El
Jardin de las Artes -The Engineers Syndicate in Venezuela (C.I.V.).
- The former active president and the supervising head of the Venezuelan-
Artists Association (AVAP).
- The Jose Loreto Arismendi Award - The Fine Arts Museum - Caracas.
- The First Award of the Visual Arts Chambe - The Engineers Syndicate
in Venezuela (C.I.V.)
3-
Ses œuvres récentes, regroupées sous le titre «
Duo ».
De style hyperréaliste,
d'une incroyable netteté, la trentaine de tableaux accroches
mettent en scène des natures mortes, aux couleurs vives,
ou le trompe-l'oeil est largement présent. On peut le constater
dans la photo ci-dessus, ou la bouteille peinte semble suspendue
à la vraie corde accrochée au cadre. Dans la présente
exposition, l’artiste a mis l’accent sur l'objet et son ombre, d’où
le titre de l'exposition. Ombre et même dégradés
d’ombres, ainsi que la transparence du verre signent la facture
de ses compositions modernes à l’huile et l’acrylique.
L’orient
le jour, 2 avril, 2004
Romance - 62 x 82 cm, Acrylic on Canvas, one of Mardelli masterpieces
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Some of the artist's artwork
Represented in Venezuela by Galeria Dimaca, Caracas
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