A Franco-Lebanese painter and draughtsman, David Daoud was born in Lebanon in 1970. Having left Beirut in 1978, his artistic output remains deeply marked by the experience of exile. A contemporary expressionist, David Daoud’s paintings tell the fate of people who could be any one of us. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, he joined the National School of Decorative Arts where he trained with the famous sculptor Charles Auffret, himself from the studio of Auguste Rodin's students.
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Starting initially with sculpture in Paris, along the lines of Rodin’s disciples, it was thanks to a course that he followed at the Beaux-Arts which rapidly confirmed Daoud’s preference for painting in oils which enabled him to “give a soul to things.”
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Despite the pervasiveness of migration, nostalgia, or absence in the works of Daoud, these are more evocative of dreams and poetry than of torment. Daoud has mastered the art of leaving his position to the mystery. Outlines of bodies are blurred, and colors are blended, weaving only the skeleton of a story that each one can tell.
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The artist has exhibited in several galleries, museums and cultural sites in France and Lebanon. Ibrahim Maalouf selected one of his artworks for the cover of his album "Levantine Symphony" in 2018. In 2020 he was awarded the Hermitage Foundation Prize. In 2020, works by David DAOUD were acquired by the Arab World Institute in Paris. Today, he lives and works between Paris, Liège and Beirut.