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SABHAN ADAM (SYRIAN B.1972) UNTITLED signed and dated SABHAN ADAM 2008 on the reverse mixed media on canvas 218.5 x 74.2cm; 86 x 74 1/4in unframed Property of a Private Collector, London Provenance Z Gallery Dubai, 2010 Acquired from the above by the present owner "The figures I paint have so many things in common with me... I draw myself with everything that exists inside: the sadness, the misery, the shocking things I have faced, the isolation, and the feeling of not belonging to this world." Syrian-born Sabhan Adam is a self-taught artist who creates works in relative isolation from the art world. A prolific painter, Adam has exhibited at institutions such as the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by the British Museum, Jalanbo Collection, Barjeel Art Foundation, the Hassan Smith Collection and many other private collections. His Orwellian figures challenge notions of beauty and the heinous, exploring motifs of imaginary misshapen creatures often clothed in glamourous, highly coloured attire against plain backgrounds. Demonstrating the pain, fear and phobia which afflicts society, these distorted and monstrous figures equally hold a complex set of personal emotions based on Adam’s own psychology.