In a painting entitled "Displacement in Syria", in which colored stones are turned into men, children and women with their woes and belongings on their backs, displaced from the homeland, the sculptor Nizar Ali Badr wailed the jury of the "Arab talents" show on MBC. His video, which he created for a short period of time, did not exceed minutes, becoming the most widely circulated video on social networking sites.
From this painting millions of people know this artist, but who is Nizar Ali Badr? What is the story of Mount Safon, where he signs his work?
Nizar Ali Badr, the son of Lattakia, began to form his small dreams with clay since he reached the age of seven, until he was attracted by Mount Safon with all its colored stones. He went to the foot of the mountain, which is about 60 km from Lattakia. Syria and the concerns and pains of the people. He works daily to form the stones, and produces the paintings signed by the name of Mount Safon, until he became known by that name. The stones are carefully selected, checked in shapes and colors, but what he finds is not fit to work in the "row of gravel" and the creation of paintings, bringing him back to nature to re-join them.
In the recent period, this stone has been ridiculed to draw the pain of Syria and the suffering of the people, and most of the people who have it, bear the features of refraction through the curved heads that drag the pain and disappointment.
Badr also dedicates part of these stones to the commemoration of the Ugarit civilization which he wished he had been born in. It is believed that his Ugaritic ancestors left it in his genes, a stone of Safon, and works to preserve this secretariat and deliver it honestly and spontaneously to generations through his paintings.
The experience of the remarkable "Gravel Row" prompted Canadian writer Margaret Rors to present a book on his paintings entitled "Gravel of Roads". He has also hosted many exhibitions in Europe to offer his works of gravel, in addition to his traditional sculptures, which are uninterrupted despite its close relationship with the pebbles and the art of "gravel row