Curator's Introduction to Dia al-Azzawi: Painting Poetry 

'The Arab world's most influential living artist', Dia al-Azzawi is best known for monumental and colourful canvasses. His work spans many genres, including a type of artist books known in Arabic as 'dafatir'.
Here Francesca Leoni, curator of Dia al-Azzawi: Painting Poetry at the Ashmolean, introduces us to the work of this important contemporary artist and takes us through the Ashmolean's 2022-23 exhibition.
Dia al-Azzawi: Painting Poetry is open and free to visit until 11 June 2023.
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