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Ayyam Gallery presents recent canvases by Syrian painter Tammam Azzam in "Dirty Laundry"

DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery, Dubai presents “Dirty Laundry” an exhibition featuring recent canvases by Syrian painter Tammam Azzam. Continuing his acclaimed body of work, which utilizes rope, clothespins and other found objects, Azzam remains interested in the visual possibilities of basic components amidst an organic state, where the driving force of their arrangement is solely “the mechanisms of creation.” For Azzam, the benefit of working from such methodology is that it facilitates the creation of an artwork as a “hybrid form,” one that is capable of borrowing and multiplying as it evolves. Focusing on technique and experimentation, each installment of the series varies dramatically. Last year, however, he decided to depart from his “Laundry Series” altogether, producing an entirely different brand of painting. Using an airbrush technique, he turned to figuration, depicting ominou