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Artists today are smugglers. Recycling both real and fictional
images, their proposals are no longer artworks or even art objects,
but rather situations to be lived, put to the test and experimented
with collectively. Analyzing contemporary art works as authorless
'hyper-artworks', post-colonial critic and theorist Ackbar Abbas
argues that narration emerges as a potent aesthetic force and that
all forms of documentation are themselves interpretations open to
new and multiple readings.
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Blindes (Paperback)
Barbara Polla; Translated by Paul Ardenne; S. Moss
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Chosen for the 59th Venice Biennale, to represent contemporary
creation at the Lebanese pavilion Ayman Baalbaki is a Lebanese
artist born in Beirut in 1975. He first trained at the Institute of
Fine Arts of the university Lebanese school in Beirut, then at the
National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Five years after his
arrival in France, he received the silver medal in painting at the
Francophone Games and then participated in several exhibitions
worldwide. Lebanon, France, Great Britain, Argentina, Egypt and
Niger are all countries that welcome the works of the artist. His
productions of the last 10 years have been compiled through this
unpublished work, published in French, English and Arabic. The
authors endeavour to decipher his paintings and installations,
crossed by societal issues specific to Lebanon: war, abortive
revolt, political and financial bankruptcy, the tragedy of the port
of Beirut or even pandemic. The artist paints anonymous portraits
of his contemporaries, which have today become symbols of the
Middle East. It represents the city, its buildings, erected, but
also in ruins. His art is vibrant, dynamic and textured. Text in
English, French and Arabic.
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