Hiua Shasuar

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Self-portrait by Shamal, autumn 2010
Peace bird "Anouk" at night (2012), Military History Museum at Berlin-Gatow airfield

Hiua Schasuar (* 1972 in Kurdish Northern Iraq , stage name Schamal ) is a German-Iraqi sculptor .

biography

Schamal studied at the Baghdad Art Academy from 1987 to 1992. After several years of fleeing to Western Europe, he came to Germany. From 2000 to 2006 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Micha Ullman, among others . This was followed by an activity as a sculptor and painter. He mainly made children's playgrounds, stage sets and worked in the field of garden design. He founded his museum for contemporary spatial transformation on an open-air site with a scrapyard near Stuttgart's North Station, which had to give way to Stuttgart 21 in 2011 .

"Birds of Peace" project

Since 2004 Schamal has been producing a series of works of art under the title "Peace Birds". The artist processes the experience of air and poison gas attacks in his youth. The sculptures are supposed to surprise, stimulate the imagination and represent a visible symbol of peace. Since the artist obtained his materials from a neighboring junkyard for several years, birds of peace exist in a wide variety of materials. In the more recent works, wooden or aluminum constructions were increasingly used, which were wrapped in foil. LED light chains are also often installed in the properties. By advising the Institute for Aircraft Construction at the University of Stuttgart (in particular Rudolf Voit-Nitschmann), works of art that are suitable for air travel are to be created that the artist would one day want to fly over his Iraqi homeland and possibly other crisis regions. As a consciously interdisciplinary project, art, science, politics and imagination are to be brought together.

Works in public space

Exhibitions

Photo gallery

literature

  • "The Lord of the Filigree Peace Birds " , Stuttgarter Nachrichten, S-Nord, No. 12, July 9, 2010, S.VI
  • "Hunarmandeki Kurd Sarinji Almanekani Rakeshaoa", KHAK 10 2008, No. 134, p. 25
  • “Eight wings for peace. A “bird of peace” has recently been standing in front of the Robert Bosch School, ”Stuttgarter Zeitung Nord-Rundschau, November 29, 2008
  • “The rider of light. Schamal and his works ”(catalog), Aachen 2008
  • "Artful flying objects should bring new hope to Iraq", Stuttgarter Zeitung, No. 141, June 22, 2006, p. 26
  • “Peace birds over Iraq. The LIFT person: Student Schasuar Hiua alias Schamal is an ambassador for peace with the art of flying ”, LIFT magazine 05.06, No. 0711, p. 18

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personal data
SURNAME Shasuar, Hiua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schamal (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iraqi sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Northern Iraq