Alaa Abou Shaheen
Alaa Abu Shaheen was born in Damascus 1983. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts / Damascus University in 2006. He later worked as a Fine Arts Assistan Professor in Aleppo during the years of 2010 and 2011. Alaa has held several solo and collective exhibitions between 2005 and 2018 in his homeland, and abroad. His work is among the permanent collection of The Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art in China.The artists is currently living and practicing sculpting in France.
“if wisdom and knowledge were quantitative, then the enormity of the donkey’s head would have become a symbol of philosophy.”
On his Donkey series