Partnerships

As a professional service provider, Myriam Jakiche Art Advisory partners exclusively with highly respected, specially selected, established artists from across the Mediterranean region.

As part of this initiative, we’re delighted to introduce the Syrian artist, Fadi Yazigi, whom our team first met at his atelier in Damascus back in 2005. Since then, our paths have crossed on several occasions in many different circumstances, culminating in the launch of a partnership in 2016.

One of the region’s best-known artists, Yazigi works across a diverse range of media, which encompasses painting on canvas, rice paper and brown pita bread, alongside sculpture and creating reliefs on clay.

His passion for experimenting with different media is relentless, driven by a desire to depict and relay elements of the ordinary and extraordinary daily life he encounters in his home city to the outside world.

Yazigi continues to reside in Damascus, working daily at his atelier in the old city. His art has been showcased all over the world and features in both private collections and others held by several international institutions.

Fadi Yazigi (Syria, b. 1966)

One of the Arab world’s most fascinating contemporary artists, Fadi Yazigi first began drawing as a child and has never looked back.

Born in Syria, Yazigi studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University, gaining a bachelor’s degree in fine arts specialising in sculpture in 1988. He still lives in Damascus today with his family and works fulltime at his studio in the old city.

Producing a range of works from painting to sculpture to reliefs that all mirror each other in terms of subject matter and, for the most part, focus on everyday life in Syria.
Yazigi regularly casts his sculptures in bronze, and they often depict people as underdeveloped creatures or as half-human beasts. As a figurative painter, Yazigi’s work revolves around people and human emotions with a nostalgic sensibility towards the individuals that he encounters.

A strong facet of his work is experimenting with new materials and techniques, allowing him to continuously increase the range of his oeuvre.

Yazigi’s art is housed in numerous public collections including The British Museum (London), The Delfina Foundation (London), Kaleemat Foundation (Istanbul), A.M. Qattan Foundation (London), Atassi Foundation (Dubai) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (UAE), as well as private collections throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2007, Yazigi was the Delfina Foundation artist-in-residence, Middle East representative (London); his lecture at The National Gallery, Poussin’s Sacraments – Rites of Passage and Continuing Creativity, was delivered in the same year.

Solo exhibitions include Deborah Colton Gallery (Houston, 2017), Dar Al Funoon Gallery (Kuwait, 2017), Art Paris Art Fair (Paris 2016), Yallay Art Gallery (Hong Kong 2015), The City Hall (Thessaloniki, Greece 2015), Galerie Tanit (Beirut 2015), The Mosaic Rooms (London 2011), Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 2009) and Al Bareh Art Gallery (Bahrain 2006). Collective exhibitions include ‘Living Histories’, The British Museum (London 2017), ‘Syria: Into the Light’, Atassi Foundation (Dubai 2017), Galeries de Verre “L’Art en Marche” (Bordeaux 2015), Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris 2014), Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013), BIEL Center “Syrian Art” (Beirut 2013), Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013) and Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006). He has also participated in a number of international events and art fairs including; Art Paris, Abu-Dhabi Art, Art Dubai, Art Palm Beach, Beirut Art Fair and Sharjah Biennale.

Collective exhibitions include ‘Un œil ouvert sur le monde arabe’, Arab World Institute (Paris 2018), ‘Living Histories’, The British Museum (London2017), ‘Syria: Into the Light’, Atassi Foundation (Dubai 2017), ‘L’Art en Marche’, Galeries de Verre (Bordeaux 2015), Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris2014), Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013), ‘Syrian Art’, BIEL Center (Beirut 2013), Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013) and Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006).