Alnassar

Alnassar was born in Damascus in 1975. He comes from a family of artists, both his maternal uncles are famous sculptors. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Damascus and in 1999 he arrived in Italy to finish his studies at the Accademia di Carrara. Like many other sculptors before him, he chose the Apian mountains as the ideal place to work and develop his artistic talent. His studio is at the foot of the same mountains where the quarries were used by Michelangelo "Cave Michelangelo”. A magical place, in the midst of an evocative landscape. It was here that Alnassar constructed an amphitheater.
Alnassar is an visionary artist, he paints and sculpts using different materials. some of his works reflect his experience as a migrant, coming from Syria to Europe, and bringing with him a world of stories and images. the encounter with other culture fascinated him and made him become sensitive to the changes in humans life and relationships. Alnassar doesn’t want to immortalize the moment, he wants to record the time, he does it using original techniques. Alnassar is an extremely popular sculpture teacher, he teaches regularly, art and sculpting in his studios in Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sydney and Byron Bay . These current works have been sculpted in Byron Bay during one of Alnassar’s courses.