Galerie Claude Lemand

Gérard Xurguera. “As­sadour the secret, prince of encryp­tion, with a tem­pered yet pas­sionate nature, appears as the most metic­u­lous master of images, which he inter­locks, untan­gles, clots, sep­a­rates again and finally fuses into one same sub­stance. His layout is inge­niously inscrutable yet nothing has been ran­domly placed. Everything is so pre­cise in this chaos which is very well thought out, that Assadour does not seem to destroy all the codes but rather sub­sti­tutes them with his own.”

Claude Lemand. “Born in 1943 in Lebanon, Assadour left Beirut in 1963 when he obtained a schol­ar­ship to go study engraving and painting first in Italy and then in Paris. For a long time he was well-known as a master of con­tem­po­rary engraving. Yet at the same time, he pro­duced a rich and pro­lific oeuvre of tem­peras on paper and oils on canvas. The latter are very rare and sought after as Assadour exe­cuted very few paint­ings on canvas even though he was a hard-working artist. He par­tic­i­pated to many exhi­bi­tions in gal­leries throughout Europe, Korea, Japan and Lebanon, and his work has been dis­played in inter­na­tional art fairs as well as in ret­ro­spec­tive shows in European Museums (Germany and Italy). Assadour man­aged to develop his own uni­verse by finding inspi­ra­tion in two art trends which attracted him and left a strong impact on him, the Bauhaus’ Constructivism and the Parisian Surrealism.”