User:Camilleallam

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.

-Head of workshop and member of the jury of Diplomas at the Lebanese University. -Diploma in Interior Design from the University Holy Spirit Kaslik. -Studies of Musicology at the Holy Spirit University. -Studies of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy Artium- Madrid. -Lebanese member of the Association of the painters and sculptors - Beirut. -Member of the International association of the painters and sculptors - UN. -Member of Association Stairs of Art – Gemayze.

Latest Studies:

Development for ART applications and games – Macromedia 2004-2005 Development for 3D applications and games - Java Sun systems 2005-2006

Latest works and projects:

September 2005 - 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 (August- September). Dec. 2005 - Jan. 2006 - Individual (Painting and Sculptures) exhibition at Escalier de l’Art – Gemmayze. January - 2006 - Accrochage at Sursock Street Workshop – Tabaris, Beyrut.

Cardboard design: furniture with cardboard: geocities.com/cardboarddesign, 2007 Open house exhibition at université libanaise deir el qamar, 2007-2008 Creation of the comic book: the true stories of Antonio in the USA, 2007-2008 Initials art project: lettering, initials and quotes as paintings, 2008 Latest sculptures: 2007- Environmental sculpture: running giant: 2.50 meters wood assembly Latest art-installation: Art - installation: at université libanaise, 12/2 2008

Participation since 1985 in the most important exhibitions collective and individual:

- Gallery Broumana Plaza--1986 - 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 - Exhibitione 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

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.

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.