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Ali Hassoun is an Italian-Lebanese painter. He is known for his transversal contemporary figurative painting.

Biography

Ali Hassoun was born in Sidon (Lebanon) in 1964.

In 1982 he moved to Italy to continue his studies at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. In 1992 he completed his architecture studies at the university of the same city. Today he lives and works between Milan, Dubai and Munich. Ali Hassoun grew up in southern Lebanon with a Shiite family from Ghazieh, near Sidon, during the civil war that began in 1975. He inherited his artistic talent from his mother, an expert in tailoring and handicrafts, who came from a family of renowned potters and terracotta experts from Sidon. His father was a free trader from whom he learned the art of oratory and the ability to promote his art. Despite the civil war, he managed to finish his high school diploma in 1981, win a painting competition and receive a scholarship from the Hariri Foundation to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1991 he completed his architecture studies at the university of the same city. In 1994 he opened his art studio in Siena and began collaborating with the gallery owner Alessandro Bagnai, known for promoting the artists of the Italian Transavanguardua. In 1995 he happened to meet the young gallery owner Ettore Guastalla in Siena, with whom he still has a long friendship today. In 1996 he moved to Milan and began collaborating with the Cardi Gallery. In 1998 he created his first professional solo exhibition entitled “Sidone-Italia” with the presentation of the artist Aldo Mondino and the curatorship of Alberto Fiz. In the following years he began a long international career with solo and collective exhibitions in prestigious private, public and museum spaces. Among his most famous interventions at the international level are the banner of the Palio di Siena in July 2010, the Venice Biennale in the Lombardy Pavilion in 2011 and the Vespa for the Piaggio Museum in 2013. In 2024 he married the young German artist Annika Geigel and they opened a studio together in Munich. His art is a melting pot of cultural references between East and West. His figurative paintings tell stories and are steeped in the Sufi spirituality he inherited from his home culture. Thanks to his many years of experience, he manages to make it universal by embedding it in contemporary Italian and European painting.

The most evident theme among those that emerge in his pictorial research is related to travel, a tool for exploring heterogeneous experiences and visions. Thus the artist becomes an interpreter of different but comparable cultures, which coexist in the perfectly orchestrated space of his colorful canvases, in his compositions they are all captured in a game of cultured quotations and indirect references between figure and background. Elias Shaker, Fayasal Sultan, Omar Calabrese, Mauro Civai, Gianni Giacopelli, Fabrizio Mezzedimi, Letizia Franchina, Luigi Zangheri, Jean Noel Schifanò, Alberto Fiz, Silvia Guastalla, Luca Beatrice, Alessandro Riva, Luca Pietro Vasta, Aldo spoke about him Mondino, Chiara Guidi, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Manuela Brevi, Ivan Quaroni, Gabriel Mandel Khan, Marina Moiana, Gianluca Marziani, Beatrice Buscaroli, Antonio d'Avossa, Murteza Fedan, Melih Gorgun, Chiara Canali, Mimmo di Marzio, Saleh Barakat, Gregory Buchakjian , Vittorio Sgarbi, Martina Corgnati and Angelo Crespi.

Important Projects

Italia-Italy Arab Artists between Italy and the Mediterranean, curated by Martina Corgnati, Damascus Beirut Cairo.
Drappellone Palio Di Siena 2010 which had great worldwide visibility.
54th Venice Biennale 2011, Lombardy Pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi Arezzo Arte Fiera, Studio Guastalla, Galleria Restarte Bologna, Galleria dei Mercati Vercelli.
Vespa painted for the Piaggio museum in 2013.