Ali Sarmini
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"I have represented their crimes on the weapon they used to commit them"
-- Ali Sarmini
Dr. Ali Sarmini ( ), is a world renowned Syrian painter, best known for his work Quneitra on Remains painted on parts of an Israeli Air Force
Israeli Air Force
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F-4 Phantom shot down over Syrian territories, in about 1972.
Biography
Born in 1943, in AleppoAleppo
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...
, Syria, he studied Fine Arts in University of Damascus
University of Damascus
The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine and the Institute of Law , also making it the oldest university in modern-day Syria...
, graduating in 1972, and where, two years later, he began lecturing in Fine Arts. Sarmini later achieved a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Berlin
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-Weißensee Academy of Arts in Germany
Germany
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. From 1981 to 1991 he was Vice-Dean, from 1993 to 2001, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, at the University of Damascus
University of Damascus
The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine and the Institute of Law , also making it the oldest university in modern-day Syria...
. He attained a professorship degree in 1993.
Sarmini has exhibited internationally, including in Germany and Russia.
"Quneitra on Remains"
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, Nuratdin Muhitdinov, and another to US diplomat Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
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. The fate of the third piece was unknown until recently, when it was reported that it had been rediscovered in Moscow, and put up for auction. It was presented on 18 July 2007 to the Moscow House of Nationalities, by author and Syrian ambassador to Russia, Hasan Rische.