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For more than forty years now, Maroun El Hakim has been moving between painting and sculpting with the same natural ease and especially with the same love. He is not a painter or a sculptor, he is both. His relation with colour is vital while his work is a continuous elaboration of the techniques and potentials of matter. He never stops experimenting textures and mediums of expression whether in acrylics, watercolour, oils, pastels or gouache while he breathes into them the richness and passionate variations of his soul and spirit. He never forgets in the game of lines and virtual volumes that he is also a sculptor.

- Born in Mazraat Yachouh, Metn, Lebanon in 1950.
- Master in drawing and painting - Lebanese University 1975.
- MA Ceramics, Faculty of Applied Arts, Rome 1976.
- President of the Lebanese Fine Artists Syndicate, 2002-2009.
- President of the Lebanese Painters and Sculptors Association, 1998-2000.
- Professor at the Lebanese University, Fine Arts Institute II 1979-2014.
- Head of Drawing and Painting Department at the Fine Arts Institute II, L.U., 1986-2013.
- Founder of the Lebanese Fine Artists Syndicate, 2002.
- One of the founders of the Fine Arts Institute Alumni, L.U., 1994.
- Sculptural artworks in public and private spaces:
• Two bas-reliefs and one sculpture, public garden, Zouk Mkayel, Lebanon, 1980.
• Centenary Monument, “Société des Eaux”, Dbayeh, Lebanon, 1996.
• Terra cotta bas-relief , Saint Nohra Church, Qornet el Hamra, Lebanon, 2002.
• Wooden altar (2007) and sculpture (2005) , Sainte Famille Française Church, Fanar.
• Bronze statue of Patriarch Daniel Hadchiti, Hadchit, North-Lebanon, 2008.
• “Land of Peace” monument, Mazraat Yachouh, Lebanon, 2008.
- Creator of the “Phénix de la pub”, 1992.
- Creator of Trophy, Aley sculpture symposium, 1999.
- Creator of the Cana massacre commemorative poster, 2000.
- Creator of Trophy, Holcim, “Construire la paix”, 2007-2008.
- 32 individual exhibitions in Lebanon and abroad, 1977-2013
- More than 70 collective exhibitions au in Lebanon and abroad, 1971-2013