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Youssef Abdelke
A Vision of Violence and Symbolism Youssef Abdelke, born in the Syrian city of Qamishli in 1951, is an artist whose very existence and creative output are inextricably linked to the turbulent currents of history. A Syrian-French master of drawing and printmaking, his oeuvre serves as a profound meditation on war, trauma, and the fragile resilience of the human condition. His artistic journey has been shaped by the shadows of political
upheaval and the weight of exile, experiences that have forged a visual language both hauntingly beautiful and unflinchingly raw. To encounter an Abdelke work is to step into a space where personal memory meets global tragedy, where the artist’s gaze pierces through the surface of objects to reveal the underlying anxieties of a society in conflict. The foundations of his meticulous technique were laid at the Damascus Faculty of Fine A…
