Education
He studied Agricultural Engineering at the American University of Beirut before turning to video and arts with a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and a post-diploma of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
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Ziad Antar
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Ziad Antar’s short films evoke a world in conflict through a playful tone. In the Aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon War, Ziad Antar produced a short film entitled Louisiana Marche Turque. The image shows the hands of a pianist playing Mozart’s partition, while the sound is hammered, reminding the one of bombings.
In 2002, Antar had directed a documentary film devoted to his mentor, the photographer Jean-Luc Moulène.
In 2000, he acquired a 1948 Kodak Reflex and 10 rolls of black-and-white film that had expired in 1976. He began using this outdated material, producing a blurred and almost abstract effect on his photographs.
Solo Exhibitions Ziad Antar: Expired, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, 2011 Group Exhibitions.
Achievements
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Ziad Antar: Expired, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, 2011 Portrait of a territory, Arts Area, Sharjah, 2012 Home Works IV, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, 2008 2008TaipeiBiennial, Tapei, 2008 Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008 Provisions for the Future: Past of the Coming Days, Sharjah Biennial 09, Sharjah, 2009 America, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, 2009 21 Shortlisted Artists of the Future Generation Art Prize Group Exhibition, Pinchkuk Art Centre, Kiev, 2010 The Future of a Promise, 54th Venice Biennale, 2011 The Mediterranean Approach, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, 2011 Art is the answer! Contemporary Lebanese artists and designers, Villa Empain, Brussels, 2012.
