Baghdad – IA
After his works decorated the squares and museums of the world’s capitals, the famous Iraqi expatriate sculptor, Mr. Ali Al-Jabri, passed away from us in Italy.
The sculptor, Ali Al-Jabri, was born in Qalaat Saleh district in Maysan Governorate, southern Iraq, in 1948. He lived in Italy for about 47 years since he graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, where he specialized in plastic arts and studied under the great Iraqi plastic artists, most notably Faiq Hassan.
Immediately after his graduation in 1971, he traveled to Italy and studied sculpture at the Rome Academy of Sculpture with Perigli Fatsini and Marcello Avenali, from which he graduated magna cum laude.
Al-Jabri is considered one of the founders of the school of modern symbolism, and he served as the head of the Arab plastic artists in Italy. The Italian critic Vittorio Quirrel considers the sculptor Al-Jabri the most prominent of those who succeeded in the world in creating harmony between matter and idea, bringing drawing and sculpture closer together, and using all modern materials in implementing the idea, as he considers it. The most active artist in the Arab world.
Al-Jabri represented Iraq and Italy in several international exhibitions and won many awards. He held more than 50 personal exhibitions inside and outside Iraq, and has 300 international participations. His most important participations are in the Venice Biennale in 1976, 1988 and 1990.
He has achieved many creative achievements inside and outside Iraq and Italy, and his works are distributed among more than one country.
He is also considered the innovator and innovator of plastic arts and the inventor of methods for using new materials in sculpture, and one of the ten best international artists.
The body of the most important Iraqi figures at all stages since the statue of King Faisal II. He received the highest international awards at a young age, and his huge sculptural works and monuments are present in the squares of most countries of the world, New York, Italy, Japan, Germany and the Arab countries.
He uses the most expensive materials in his works, bronze, glass and Italian alabaster, and executes them in Fondria Bologna, where Michelangelo used to carry out his works.