Farid Mansour - Sculptor & Painter
1929 - 2010
“In 1977 (the beginnings of the Lebanese civil war) I decided to return to Beirut leaving behind me all my successes I started to harvest in London including British citizenship. I decided to return hoping that through my art and my plume I can participate in shaping an evolved society within a country where justice and equality rule. I decided to return now lest I would be shocked should I return later on, to find a country strange to me, a country that does not resemble me and a society with no intellectual and artistic culture, a country driven solely by materialistic motives and primitive instincts”
Farid Mansour
Exhibitions
Farid Mansour participated in many solo exhibitions:
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1962 – West Hall, American University of Beirut
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1967 – Soviet Cultural Center – Beirut
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1980 – Choueifat Municipality Hall – Choueifat, Lebanon
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1980 – Ras El Matn – Ras El Matn, Lebanon
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1980 – Soviet Union Graduates Alumni - Ministry of Tourism , the Glass Hall
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1988 – Soviet Cultural Center – Beirut
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2006 – Lebanese Artists Association with artists Adnan Al Masri and Moufid Zeitouni
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2019 – Lebanese Ministry of Culture / Mountada Insan / Lebanese Artists Association for Painters and Sculptors / Syndicate of Lebanese Plastic Artists - Choueifat: A Tribute to Farid Mansour
He also participated in many national exhibitions since the year 1959:
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Sursok Museum - Beirut
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UNESCO Hall - Beirut
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Ministry of Tourism - Beirut
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Beit El Din Castle - Beit El Din
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Lebanese university - Beirut
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Soviet Cultural Center - Beirut
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On the international level, he continuously participated in exhibitions such as :
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1971 - 1976 Mall Galleries in London
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1983 – Al Turath Gallery, New York
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1987 - Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
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1988 – National Museum, Damascus
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1989 – Barbican Center, London