UPCOMING EXHIBITION Amir H. Fallah The Collected December 11, 2013 – January 23, 2014 The Third Line welcomes back Amir H. Fallah with his third s
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Amir H. Fallah
December 11, 2013 – January 23, 2014 |
Amir H. Fallah, Birds Of Paradise (Detail), 2013, Acrylic, collage, pencil, oil on paper mounted to canvas, 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm |
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The Third Line welcomes back Amir H. Fallah with his third solo show in Dubai, The Collected, which investigates the complex relationship between patronage and art making, collector and artist, and the dynamics of the creative process in today’s art world. All the paintings in the show are pre-sold, commissioned portraits, where the artist exercised complete artistic authority to manipulate the image according to his own interpretation. The process involved initial collaboration with the commissioner, a performative component in the staging, and the element of surprise in the reveal of the works to the patrons for the first time during the show preview.
Amir approaches his current paintings as an investigative and analytical historian. Aside from unraveling a different perspective to art historical portraiture traditions and the dynamics of modern day art collection and art making, he also reflects upon concerns of identity and representation that are central to his practice. |
Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Diary (2-6-2013), 2013, Drawing on paper, 19 cm x 25 cm |
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The Salon - Group Show
December 11, 2013 – January 23, 2014
For the Upcoming Project Space, The Third Line will close the year by presenting a salon-style group show of a selection of its own artists as well as others who have previously shown in that space. The works will include paintings, works on papers, photographs as well as small scale sculptures that reflect on the repertoire of younger and mid-career artists working in the region or in the middle eastern diaspora. |
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Lasting images, 2004, Video installation |
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige | Guggenheim Museum, New York | December 2, 2013, 6PM
Meet artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and learn how their practice explores the complexities of documenting history through different media. Enjoy a private view of the exhibition Lasting Images and see Hadjithomas and Joreige’s video of the same name, Lasting Images (2003). Reem Fadda, Associate Curator, Middle Eastern Art, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, will moderate the discussion. A reception follows the talk.
Additional support for this program is provided through the generosity of the Middle Eastern Circle, with special thanks to Dr. Lamees Hamdan. |
Youssef Nabil
L'Officiel Art , Issue 8 | December - January - February 2013/2014
Isabelle Adjani and Youssef Nabil are featured on the cover of L'Officiel Art's latest issue which includes 12 pages of conversation and recent works by the artist.
Isabelle Adjani is a French film actress and singer and the recipient of many prestigious awards, nominations and accolades worldwide. She has performed in French, English and German, has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and holds the record for the most Cesar Awards for Best Actress, having received five.
This new body of work by Youssef Nabil continues in line with the artist's fascination with cinema and women of power and substance. The Egyptian-born artist is known for his hand colored silver gelatin photographs. In 2010 he showed his first film "You Never Left" (2010) featuring actors Fanny Ardant and Tahar Rahim and his recent self-titled monograph was released this year by Flammarion. L'Officiel Art's Issue 8 will run through December 2013 till February 2014. |
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Group 7, Convertible Series, 2010 |
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Fearful Symmetry | Galerie Balice Hertling at The Film Center, New York| November 9 - December 14, 2013
In art and architecture symmetry designates the beauty characterized by proportion or harmony. But in mathematics, symmetry means something else. In this field, anything that preserves its form after undergoing some transformation is said to be symmetrical. The symmetrical transcends a singular point of view. So a symmetrical figure will appear the same to two observers who are in different positions. A surface of a still pond, for example, has a high degree of symmetry; it looks the same almost everywhere. There's intense energy contained in symmetry. It doesn't take long staring into a ganzfeld before near hallucinatory effects appear. When symmetry is broken, this energy is released and patterns form. Symmetry breaking occurs everywhere in nature: it appears in a tiger's stripes, in the swell of ocean waves, in the ripples of a pond after a pebble is thrown into it. When pressure is applied lightly, stable geometrical patterns form. As pressure is intensified beyond a critical point, symmetry is shattered, and all order and harmony seems to be lost. Things spin out of control. It is from such unstable states that new unpredictable forms emerge.
Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian is taking part in this group show, curated by Zoe Stillpass, inspired by William Blake's famous poem. |
Huda Lutfi, You Don’t Want to Make me Upset, 2013, Mixed Media |
Huda Lutfi
Cut and Paste| Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo | December 1, 2013 - January 8, 2014
In Cut and Paste, Huda Lutfi presents a psycho-geographic archive of emotions, gestures, figures of speech and images that circulated in public space during Egypt’s transitional period. All new work produced over the past two years, these collages, found objects and sculptures combine to create one impressionistic story of the recent past. The exhibition’s title refers to the material process of making collages, as well as the archival process of collecting information from the internet. But it also refers to a certain frenetic process of history-making, in which the same events seem to repeat themselves over and over again. These works are being shown for the first time in Egypt on the occasion of Townhouse’s 15-year anniversary. |
Huda Lutfi, Crossing The Red Line, 2011, Photo montage and painting on archival paper, 190 cm x 90 cm |
Aya Haidar, Huda Lutfi, Sara Rahbar | Bischoff/Weiss, London | November 21 - December 20, 2013
Unified by the theme of the historical role of women, these three artists present works dealing with notions of independence and self-governance; borders and divisions; language and communication. Feminine roles through the ages have been at the center of Huda Lutfi's work for decades, and Crossing the Red Line (2011) shown in this exhibition exemplifies the Egyptian artist's position in the midst of the mass protests that led to the ousting of President Mubarak in 2011. The collage shows different kinds of men and women, including a pop star, empowered by their military uniforms and literally marching on their way to freedom. Two years on, as Egypt teeters on the brink of civil war between supporters of the disposed President Morsi and army-backed interim government, the white doves on their caps send an urgent message of peace. |
Hassan Hajjaj, Le Salon Paris, 2010, mixed media installation |
Hassan Hajjaj
Chaos into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia | Sharjah Art Foundation | October 26, 2013 - January 26, 2014
Chaos into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia is an investigation of the Aesthetic of Funk. Curated by Shannon Ayers Holden, the exhibition is an exploration of the radical power of transformation, the theme of transcendence and the presentation of a new world material culture as seen through the works of three artists from the African Diaspora: American textile artist Xenobia Bailey, Moroccan born photographer and designer Hassan Hajjaj and British Trinidadian filmmaker and sculptor Zak Ove. |
Babak Golkar
Dialectic of Failure | West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver| October 10 - December 7, 2013
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Iran Modern | Asia Society, New York | September 6, 2013 - January 5, 2014
Slavs and Tatars
Asian Art Biennial | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | October 5, 2013 - January 5, 2014
In the Heart of the Country | The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw | May 14, 2013 – January 6, 2014
SOFT PICTURES | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin | October 23, 2013 - March 23, 2014
Youssef Nabil
Tea with Nefertiti | IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia | November 7, 2013 - January 26, 2014
Ebtisam Abdulaziz
EMIRATI EXPRESSIONS | Manarat Al Saadiyat | October 19, 2013 - January 28, 2014
Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Babak Golkar, Sahand Hesamiyan
The Blue Route | Villa Empain, Brussels | September 27, 2013 - February 9, 2014
Shirin Aliabadi
City Lives | Bristol Museum and Art Gallery | November 30, 2013 - March 2, 2014
Hayv Kahraman
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists | Nelson-Atkins Museum | August 31, 2013 - March 30, 2014
Sophia Al Maria
Bridge Commission Audio Walks | Serpentine Gallery project, London | September 2013 - September 2014 |
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Monograph |
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige recently launched their self titled monograph in conjunction with The Third Line at Abu Dhabi Art 2013. This publication is available for purchase at The Third Line bookstore.
Following the duo's bodies of work since the early psycho-geographic mapping of Beirut to the recent projects gathered together under the title "Lebanese Rocket Society," this book is the first reference monograph dedicated to the artists. Essays by Guggenheim Foundation Curator Suzanne Cotter and cinema critic and historian Jean-Michel Frodon, as well as a conversation held by Michèle Thériault, Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, with fellow artists and thinkers (Jalal Toufik, Etel Adnan, Dominique Abensour, etc.), explore the numerous themes of their practice. Co-published by JRP|Ringier and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, with the support of the National Centre for Visual Arts, Paris. |
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