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Rafik Majzoub was born in 1971 in Amman, Jordan, and now works and resides in Beirut. Self taught, Majzoub is a painter and a graphic artist whose fame has largely gone beyond his city of adoption

Rafik Majzoub
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The raw images and deliberate artless style cut through any façade that may exist, showing the imperfection of life through these direct and frontal portraits. Violent brushstrokes, a limited palette and neutral backgrounds are indicative of his style, and there is an immediacy in the work which reveals what is beneath the veneer. 

Kids Of Bombs

A kid's diary from the Middle East ... Now

I do not remember what is silence

How will my dreams be without the sound of bombing?"

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