Zoro Mettini

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Zoro Mettini , Kurd. : Zoro Mettînî, (born September 1, 1949 in Amude , Syria ) is a Kurdish painter and sculptor .

Life

30 years. Manager and partner, Birgit Vogt and Zoro Mettini 1990.

Zoro Mettini was born in Syria. Because of their political commitment, his family had to emigrate to Lebanon in 1964 .

In 1969 Mettini began studying with H. Hamwie at The Center of Fine Arts in Beirut . He graduated with a degree as a painter and sculptor. He then worked as an art teacher. In 1972, in competition with more than a hundred artists, he received 2nd prize from the American Academy of Art. In 1973 he worked as art director for the youth magazine Weekend and became a member of the Oriental Artist Movement, of which he was a board member from 1974. In 1974 he worked as a graphic designer for the advertising agency Worldtrade and worked as a painter and sculptor at Libanorama from 1975 until his emigration .

He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1976. He is a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists and was on the board of the Association of Visual Artists in Steglitz from 1985 to 1987. He works as a lecturer at the Adult Education Center in Steglitz for painting and sculpture and was an employee of Prof. Waldemar Grzimek , in the field of sculpture, Prof. Erich Fritz Reuter , in the field of sculpture, Henry Moore , in the field of sculpture Dr. Steffen Rehm, in the field of art performance, Bernd Hüppauf, professor of cultural theory and literature at New York University, in the field of art performance, Cigerxwîn (kîne em), Dr. Nûredîn Zaza, in the area of ​​his book design, Hemreş Reşo and Oscar winner Hans-Jürgen Kiebach , in the area of stage design .

In 1987 Zoro Mettini was awarded the first prize in a competition for a stage design by the Steglitz Art Office. In 1972 his work was attacked and destroyed at a group exhibition. In 1990 he received a prize for his illustrations of poems by Nikolaus Lenau ,

Exhibitions (posters)

Mettini's pictures and sculptures have been exhibited in Beirut , London , Paris , Malmö , Helmstedt , Rotenburg , Hamburg , Berlin , Munich , Zurich and Lausanne , among others .

  • Gallery Berlin-Baku Destruction and new beginning 2010

  • Surreal creations town hall & artists card Rotenburg 1992

  • Surreal creations at the Steglitz Art Office 1988–1989

  • Galerie 333 Helmstedt, Surreale Schöpfungen 1987

  • Gallery Bernd E, 1984

gallery

  • The euphony in Beethoven's “Ninth” 2010

  • Resettlement cardboard from the Orient to the Occident 2010

  • Girtî 2001

  • Anticipated 2010

  • The planets. (G. Holst) 1995 70X15 meters

  • The Search for Freedom 1980 (ceramic)

  • Çeto and Berivani 1978 (bronze)

  • The prisoner 1979 and SOS 1994 (ceramics)

  • Leyla Qasim 1975

  • Mettini and his partner Birgit creating the sculpture Horizont II in 1978

literature

  • Kurds in exile . A handbook of Kurdish culture, politics and science , Volume 1, published by the Berlin Institute for Comparable Social Research, the House of World Cultures and medico international, 1991.
  • Kurdistan circular, Zoro Mettini's forbidden mother tongue , published by the Kurdistan Information Center in Cologne.
  • Steglitz Art Days , published by the Steglitz District Office in Berlin in 1987.
  • DAMID press service: The Kurdish problem requires a political solution , interview with the artist Zoro Mettini, Berlin 1994.
  • Hemreş Reşo: Denge Yekitiye , Ratingen 1983–1984.
  • Jürgen Rüdiger Krenzien: Poems with Pointy Color , Berlin 1984.
  • Rüdiger Trantow: Mosaic of my Life , Berlin 2007.
  • Since 1982 in Who's who in the arts and literature.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Mettini, Zoro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mettini, Z.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Amude , Syria