Ahmad
Barho is a Syrian painter born in Aleppo in 1966. His childhood gaze is imbued
with the inscriptions and murals that cover the interiors of the old city. From
a young person's dream of one day being able to equal the elders, his vocation
as an artist was born. Ahmad Barho thus followed his training at the Fine Arts
in Damascus but upon his graduation, he made an obvious break with the dominant
Syrian figurative movement. Abstraction is, according to him, better able to
express his quest for freedom and the absolute. His work leaves room for an
impressive treatment of surfaces and colors, from which contrasting effects
constantly emerge. His mastery of composition invites the dark to rub shoulders
with dazzling luminosity and allows subtle aerial movements to sit alongside
imposing concentrations of static force. Pulverizing visual certainties, Ahmad
Barho's work plunges us into a deep meditation, dear to this artist attracted
by Asian philosophies. Ahmad Barho now teaches at the Fine Arts of Aleppo and
since 2022, after a 10-year hiatus linked to the war, he has started exhibiting
again in Damascus and Aleppo.
