Daoud, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2024
1st edition
Edition of 1000 copies
Hardcover, 27 x 30 cm, 352 pages
French English edition
Translated in English by Jonathan Thunin
ISBN : 978-2-491901-75-2
Daoud is the artist's first monograph retracing the Franco-Lebanese painter-sculptor's extraordinary life path and his relationship with creation. Prefaced by Ibrahim Maalouf, with texts by Nathalie Bindault and Agnès Larose, the book is a reasoned presentation of David Daoud's work, bringing together over 220 paintings, sculptures and drawings.
“Painting is a mirror of the human soul. Da Vinci captured the enigmatic ambiguity of the human spirit in the smile of the Mona Lisa, Vermeer captured innocence and purity in his Jeune Fille à la Perle, and today, David Daoud is one of those artists who continue this tradition, exploring the souls of the Levant through his canvases. He doesn't just paint faces, bodies and landscapes; he sculpts emotions, identities, collective stories that resonate with our own humanity...” (Excerpt from Ibrahim Maalouf's text)
Born in Lebanon in 1970, David Daoud lives and works in the Vexin region and enjoys an international career. After studying at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, he trained at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris with sculptor Charles Auffret, himself a graduate of Auguste Rodin's studio. Internationally recognized, he has won several awards, including the Fondation de France's 1st Frédéric de Carfort prize for painting in 2011. In 2018, Ibrahim Maalouf chose one of his works for the cover of his album 'Levantine Symphony'. In 2024, he wrote the foreword to Daoud's monograph. He is represented by galleries in several countries, including Paris, Honfleur and Colmar in France, as well as Beirut, New York, Abu Dhabi, Liège and Brescia.
Nathalie Bindault began her professional career with a master's degree in strategic marketing, and worked for a major international company for a dozen years, before leaving it all behind in 2006 to devote herself exclusively to the art of pastel. A radical choice of life that confronts her with the joys and doubts of the artist's ceaseless quest. In 2018, at the chance of an exhibition, captivated by a piéta by Daoud, she discovered the work of the artist she would meet in 2021. She is now a professional artist, and a close friend of Daoud, with whom she has shared a studio for several years. In 2023, she founded the Friends of David Daoud association to support and promote his work.
Born in Mâcon in 1967, Agnès Larose is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, as well as a master's degree in Information and Communication, press section, from the Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III. For 16 years, she worked with a wide range of local and national print and broadcast media: Le Monde, France 3, La Renaissance, l'Indépendant de Louhans... In 2017, after 15 years of voluntary service to the public in the library field, she continued her training at ENSSIB (Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques) and became an operational manager. Since 2019, she has been Director of the Médiathèques network for the city of Cergy (Val-d'Oise).
Born on November 5, 1980 in Beirut, Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, film composer, arranger and producer. Maalouf has released 19 albums, 18 soundtracks and collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Sting, Angelique Kidjo and J Balvin. In 2022, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album Queen of Sheba, and received a second nomination in 2023 for his performance on the track Todos Colores, from his album “Capacity To Love.”
