WAHID MAGHARBE - BIOGRAPHY:

Born in 1942, Wahid Magharbe is a Syrian / Moroccan artist who grew up and lived his life in Aleppo Syria. He carried the sciences of the East to the West, mixing their pigments producing pure and pleasant colors, and his ideas converged with the currents in which he grew up and later integrated into the Rome Academy of Fine Arts, which was the center of all kinds of artistic development.

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Wahid, one of six honored in the celebration of the Days of Syrian Plastic Art 2018, studied plastic art in a special study, in order to obtain a license in 1978 in photography from the Academy of Rome, forming an artistic experience in which he was able to combine the ingenuity of composition and the splendor of coloring in addition to the originality derived from the local heritage.

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The attributes of originality evident in the Arab photography carried by Moroccans in which he used a contemporary method parallel to the global plastic language. He held more than 20 individual exhibitions in Syria, Lebanon and Italy in addition to his participation in dozens of group exhibitions inside and outside the country since 1960.

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The work of the artist are Moroccans that come out of himself and his colors so that the plastic art lover notices that the sacred has something that touches the popular state .. and the innate state has everything that is civilized to accumulate his icons and form a whole in a composition that elevates the plastic state to the glorification of life and the aspiration for the better.

 

illustrations for the book “The History of Medicine in the Arabs” published in Paris. He also contributed to the scientific illustrations for two magazines that were published in London. Many critics wrote about him, and his works covered many newspapers in Syria, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf and Europe.

His works has been acquired by the Ministry of Culture in the two national museums of Aleppo and Damascus, and in by private collectors.

 

Wahid Magharbe passed away on the 18th of December in his hometown of Aleppo, at the age of 76, after suffering from an incurable disease.

 

Exhibitions:

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He held more than 20 individual exhibitions in Syria, Lebanon and Italy in addition to his participation in dozens of group exhibitions inside and outside the country since 1960.

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• 1961 He held his first exhibition at the Fathi Muhammad Center for Fine Arts, Aleppo

• ⁠⁠⁠1962 He held his second exhibition at the Fathi Muhammad Center for Fine Arts, Aleppo

• 1967 Participated with a number of his fellow artists in the exhibition of the artists of the golden feather in the prayers of the Center for Fine Arts in Aleppo and the hall of the National Museum in Aleppo 1968

• ⁠⁠⁠1969 He held his third exhibition at the National Museum, Aleppo

• ⁠⁠⁠1970 Awarded the Cotton Festival in Aleppo

• 1972 He held his fourth exhibition in the Issue Gallery in Beirut

• 1972 He held a joint exhibition with Louay Kayali and Saad, at the House of Art and Literature Gallery in Beirut

• 1974 He held his fifth exhibition in the Contemporary Gallery in Beirut

• 1975 Traveled to Rome to study photography at its Academy

• 1976 Winner of the Technical and Industrial Guidance Prize in Rome

• 1977 Won the prize of the morning newspaper Papadometzia

• 1978 held his sixth exhibition at the Tartale Gallery in Rome

• 1978 Awarded a prize in painting with distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome

• 1979 held his seventh exhibition at the Pontiacal Coward Gallery in Rome

• 1980 held his eighth exhibition at the Baofed Gallery in Florence

• 1980 held his ninth exhibition at the Tartale Gallery in Rome

• 1981 1985 He exhibited his work in a number of private galleries and contributed to the illustrations of two magazines that were published in London in the eighties. He completed drawings of a number of heritage books, most notably the book on the History of Medicine among the Arabs, which was published in Paris by Dr. Salman Qattaya. 1986 He held his tenth exhibition in the hall of the National Museum in Aleppo

• 1987 1988 Participated in many group exhibitions in Europe

• 1989 He held his eleventh exhibition at the Umayya House of Fine Arts

• 1990 He held his twelfth exhibition at Bilad Al-Sham Gallery, Aleppo

• 1991 He held his previous eleventh exhibition in Al-Khanji Gallery, Aleppo

• 1993 held its fourteenth exhibition in Bilad Al-Sham Gallery, Aleppo

• 1997 He held his fifteenth exhibition at Bilad Al-Sham Gallery, Aleppo

• 1998 He held his sixteenth exhibition at Bilad Al-Sham Gallery, Aleppo

• 1999 He held his seventeenth exhibition in the Gallery of the Syndicate of Fine Arts, Aleppo

• 2001 He held his eighteenth exhibition in Tishreen Gallery, Aleppo, as part of a ceremony held by the Aleppo Provincial Council to honor the artist, Magharebia

• 2002 He held his nineteenth exhibition in the Shura Gallery in Damascus

• 2002, like the Aleppo City Council Prize for intellectual and artistic creativity

• 2002 Won the gold medal for the Festival of Love in Lattakia

• 2004 He held his 20th exhibition at Dar Kalimat Gallery, Aleppo

• 2011, a retrospective exhibition was held for him in the Karma Gallery in Aleppo, which many critics wrote about. His works covered many newspapers in Syria, Lebanon and the Arab Gulf states. His works were acquired by the Syrian Ministry of Culture and the National Museum in Aleppo, Damascus and Damer, and a number of Arab and Western museums and galleries, and in private collections within Syria, Italy and a number of Arab capitals

• Aleppo fair, we went to you, and you are the way, 2016, the Thousand Noon Gallery