etel adnan
Notte al Palazzo
05 September 2024 — 01 March 2025
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Beirut, Etel Adnan (1925-2021) moved to Paris in 1949 to study philosophy at the Sorbonne. She continued her studies in the United States, at Berkeley and Harvard.
Etel began painting in the late 1950s while teaching philosophy at the University of California. Her initial works were abstract compositions, flat areas of colour applied directly from a tube of paint. She also tried her hand at tapestry, drawing inspiration from oriental carpets. From 1964 onwards, she created leporellos, folded accordion books of Japanese origin that combined text and drawings.
The following year, she published her first poems against the Vietnam War. Etel is the author of numerous novels, essays, poems, and plays, written in English and French. Her deeply politically engaged literary work is an ode to peace, love and unity in the world. Her novel on the Lebanese civil war, “Sitt Marie-Rose”, published in 1977, won the Amitié Franco-Arab Prize and has been translated into dozens of languages.
In the 1970s, Etel moved to Sausalito, California, where she discovered and became fascinated by Mount Tamalpais. The contemplation of nature, the link between art and nature, and the status of nature as art, are recurrent themes in her work. Etel also evokes, through leitmotif, the sea, the sky, the night, and the passage of time and movement. Her paintings, drawings, and Super 8 films have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, and several museums have devoted retrospectives to Etel's work.
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