Ayyam Gallery DIFC invites you on Monday, December 19 from 7-9 pm to celebrate the opening of "Dirty Laundry", an exhibition featuring recent canvases by Syrian painter Tammam Azzam. Continuing his acclaimed body of work, which utilizes rope, clothespins and other found objects, Azzam remains interested in the visual possibilities of basic components amidst an organic state, where the driving force of their arrangement is solely “the mechanisms of creation.” For Azzam, the benefit of working from such methodology is that it facilitates the creation of an artwork as a “hybrid form,” one that is capable of borrowing and multiplying as it evolves. Focusing on technique and experimentation, each installment of the series varies dramatically.

Born in Damascus in 1980, Tammam Azzam is one of Syria’s rising young talents. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts with a concentration in oil painting, he has exhibited in some of the country’s leading art spaces. Striving to further his artistic practice, Azzam obtained a Fine Arts Certificate from Darat al Funun’s esteemed artist workshop program Al Kharif Academy under Syrian master Marwan Kassab Bashi in 2001. Selected for the “Shabab Ayyam” project in 2007, he has been featured in several subsequent standout events including the group show “Stories from the Levant,” Scope Art Fair (Basel) 2009 and Art Miami 2010.