Isabel Ardanaz

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Ardanaz completed the Degree of Fine Arts in Altea, Alicante, and continued her academic formation career at the University in Granada, where she was awarded a doctoral scholarship offered by the University of Fine Arts in Lund, Sweden, to envisage an artistic research in Damascus, Syria.

 

Initially, her project was a fascinating trip across this country and its borders, what allowed her to learn and verify how the highways had approached the occidental culture to remote places, as a globalization effect. Afterwards, she felt forced to provide proofs and testimonies of the dramatic situation in Syria from 2011. She finished her formation with a Postgraduate Degree in February 2016, obtaining the International Doctorate diploma at the University of Granada. In her doctoral thesis “Artists in War”, Ardanaz depicted the last five years of the following Syrian artists: Nizar Sabour, Tammam Azzam, Omar Marouf and Khalil Ashawi. The itinerary across the cartography outlined by these four artists, is so diverse as surprising: some decided to emigrate, while others preferred to stay in the country despite the war.

 

Additionally, she had the privilege to receive the extraordinary supervision of Fairuz Mourad, director of the cultural area of the Cervantes Institute in Damascus, who is developing her researches at the Cervantes Institute in Beirut at the moment.

 

Ardanaz has exposed her artistic works in Madrid (gallery ArtVice), as well as Germany, Italy, Mexico and Espíritu Santo, Brasil, after obtaining the first award of painting in 2011. On the other hand, three of her photographical works have been published.

 

At the moment, she continues her researches about the afore-mentioned artists: Nizar Sabour, Tamman Azzam, Omar Marouf and Khalil Ashawi.