Artist

Simone Fattal

In turn a painter in Lebanon, a poetry editor in California and a sculptor today in Paris, the life of Simone Fattal already presents itself as a vast story.

In the 1970s, she began a career as a painter where, deeply inhabited by Lebanese landscapes, she tirelessly worked to represent, at the limit of abstraction, the slight variations of light on Mount Sannine in Beirut.

Faced with the civil war ravaging Lebanon, Simone Fattal fled and settled in California in the early 1980s, then in France, and by chance, she says, became an editor, creating and running The Post since 1982. Apollo Press. It particularly specializes in publishing experimental literature and poetry, publishing and translating into English the works of European and Arab writers.

Simone Fattal did not abandon her artistic activity and at the same time turned to working with clay which she discovered and experimented with at the Art Institute of California – San Francisco then with the ceramist Hans Spinner based in Grasse with whom she collaborated for many years. She was then seduced by the ability of this material to bring out simple, timeless shapes. These sculptures are striking for their primary character where archaeology, art history, politics and the spiritual are deeply intertwined.