AL-AWDA PROUDLY PRESENTS SLIMAN MANSOUR Talking on THE ART OF THE INTIFADA
TOMORROW NIGHT, TUESDAY DECEMBER 5, 2000
PLACE: International Action Center
ADDRESS: 39 W. 14th St. Second Floor, NYC
TIME: 7:00 PM
CONTACT: 212-966-3517Born in the Palestinian village of Beir Zeit in 1947, Sliman Mansour spent his childhood at boarding schools in Bethlehem. Among his neighbors he was always known as the artist. Even while a child, townspeople brought him pictures of their loved ones to portray in painting. Then at school in Bethlehem, Mansour met with the patronage of a teacher who submitted his drawing to a United Nations Competition. Sliman won first prize. It confirmed him in a long career of art and artistic activism.
His first one artist show opened in Ramalla, Palestine, during the Intifada in 1981 at Gallery79. It only lasted four hours when suddenly the Israeli army closed both the show and the Gallery and later made it illegal to use red, green, white, and black - the colors of the Palestinian flag. Later, Sliman Mansour helped organize a number of shows in the West Bank and Gaza which were wildly popular in Palestine.
Sliman Mansour is one of Palestine's most distinguished painters. His work exhibits great maturity and a consciousness of international currents in art. He now lives in Jerusalem where he heads the Al- Wasiti Art Center. He is currently visiting New York in connection with an exhibition of his work and the work of other Palestinian artists at the Visitors Lobby of the United Nations. Mansour will speak about his art and that of other Palestinian artists of the Intifada.
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