Born in Damascus in 1923 and educated at the Academia Di Belle Arti in Rome, Mahmoud Hammad developed a practice that spans across multiples medium such as painting, printmaking, engravings and sculpture.

Founder of the Damascus Group of Abstract Art and Dean of the Fine Art Faculty of Damascus, the artist is recognized as one of the most influential artist from his time and for the next generation of Syrian and Arab artists.

Working alongside Nassir Chaura and Elias Zayat to create the Damascus Abstract Group, he developed his iconic abstract genre beginning in the 1960's until his death in the late-1980's.

Throughout constant exploration of the various letter forms, the artist approached the surface of his wo...