Ahmed
Alsoudani
Ahmed
Alsoudani
Alsoudani
American, born in 1975
Deeply affected by works that have become visual memories of atrocities committed during the 19th and 20th centuries, like Goya’s Disasters of War, or Picasso’s Guernica, Ahmed Alsoudani hopes that his paintings and drawings will become part of history, and the memory of the present.
Ahmed Alsoudani was born in 1975 in Bagdad, Iraq. In 1999, he fled his home country and sought asylum in the United States after he defaced a poster of Saddam Hussein. Alsoudani works on paper and canvas, and focuses exclusively on the theme of war. The tragic experience of his home country forms the matrix of his practice and extends to recounting the atrocities of conflicts on a global scale.
The artist’s work in the Pinault Collection was shown at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition (2011-12).
Ahmed Alsoudani was born in 1975 in Bagdad, Iraq. In 1999, he fled his home country and sought asylum in the United States after he defaced a poster of Saddam Hussein. Alsoudani works on paper and canvas, and focuses exclusively on the theme of war. The tragic experience of his home country forms the matrix of his practice and extends to recounting the atrocities of conflicts on a global scale.
The artist’s work in the Pinault Collection was shown at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition (2011-12).
