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CURRENT EXHIBITION Slavs and Tatars Language Arts March 17 - April 17, 2014 Language Arts is Slavs and Tatars’ first solo show in the Middle East.
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Slavs and Tatars
March 17 - April 17, 2014
Language Arts is Slavs and Tatars’ first solo show in the Middle East. Following a run of internationally acclaimed museum shows and publications, the artists’ performative use of language takes a new turn, with an exploration of alphabet politics. |
 Slavs and Tatars, Language Arts, 2014, Installation view |
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Slavs and Tatars’ recent work turns to language as a source of political, metaphysical, even sexual emancipation. With their trademark mix of high and low registers, ribald humor and esoteric discourse, the collective addresses the thorny issue of alphabet politics and attempts by nations, cultures, and ideologies to ascribe a specific set of letters to a given language. |
Fouad Elkoury
April 30 - May 29, 2014 |
 Fouad Elkoury, The Lost Empire, Balaton Airport, 2010, Chromogenic Print Diasec, 50 x 75 cm |
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The Third Line is pleased to present The Lost Empire, Fouad Elkoury’s third solo show in Dubai, which presents the artist’s photographic journey through abandoned soviet military bases.
In a practice spanning more than four decades, Fouad’s work has come to be associated with documentary photography through lands that have experienced strife – with the landscape and architecture pockmarked with human conflict. The current body of work explores a similar topography of war.
After having decided to document abandoned soviet military bases in 2009, Fouad visited dozens of military bases in Poland, Hungary, Estonia and East Germany between 2010 and 2011. Most were aviation fields; others served separate purposes. And despite having being told there was nothing to photograph there, Fouad found the abandoned desolation far more captivating.
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Lamya Gargash
April 30 - May 29, 2014 |
 Lamya Gargash, Entangled Tree, C-print, 60 x 60 cm |
The Third Line welcomes back Lamya Gargash, who will be showing her new body of work in the gallery Project Space. Lamya’s recent photographs expand upon her interventions in internal and external living spaces, seeking human presence in otherwise empty compositions.
The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs taken at various points in time, celebrating the visibly banal. These are spaces that still show signs of someone having left a mark of their presence – in effect also highlighting their absence: used plates after a family lunch, a motionless mickey mouse ride serenely staring off into nothingness, dirty drapes from Lamya’s now demolished house, and more. |
 Sahand Hesamiyan, Gonbade Kabood (Lapis Lazuli Dome), 2012, Steel and Paint, 60 x 69 x 60 cm |
25 - 27 April, 2014
Booth 3C-28 Young
The Third Line is pleased to be participating for the first time at Art Brussels, exhibiting works by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Sahand Hesamiyan and Sherin Guirguis. The artists featured explore the use of geometry, and its representation, in contemporary art.
The three artists selected investigate the formal and aesthetic characteristics of geometry, presented across multiple disciplines. Reducing representation to its most basic components such as lines, angles and shapes, and interpreting them through various media, each artist shares their own unique understanding and vision of the fundamentals of geometry.
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Zineb Sedira
Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme Grant | Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Seven artists have been selected by Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) to receive support for the realisation of new projects in 2014. The SAF Production Programme grantees are Zineb Sedira, Marwa Arsanios, Elena Artemenko, Ali Cherri, Ahmad Ghossein, Jumana Manna and Raed Yassin. The announcement was made on March 13, by Sharjah Art Foundation President and Director Hoor Al-Qasimi. The 2014 recipients of the Production Programme grants were selected by an international jury comprising Tarek Abou El Fetouh, independent curator; Pooja Sood, Director of Khoj International Artists’ Association, and Hoor Al-Qasimi. |
Acquisitions
The Third Line is pleased to announce the following museum acquisitions: |
 Tarek Al-Ghoussein, (In)Beautification No1333, 2012, Chromogenic-Print, 60 x 100 cm |
The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas has acquired works by Tarek Al-Ghoussein for its permanent collection. The work (In) Beautification 1333 was bought by the museum at the Fotofest 2014 Biennial auction in Houston.
Works from Tarek's K Files series were also acquired by the British Museum, London for its permanent collection. The works were purchased with funds granted by Rana Sadik and Samer Younis. |
 Golnaz Fathi, Untitled, 2013, Pen and acrylic on canvas, Diptych 100 x 80 + 100 x 60 cm |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has acquired a recent work by artist Golnaz Fathi, which she recently exhibited in New York. |
 Fouad Elkoury, The Lost Empire, Retired Buses, 2010, Chromogenic Print Diasec, 72 x 90 cm |
Fouad Elkoury
Le Plus Beau Jour | Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France | March 26 - May 25, 2014
Exposé notamment au Palais de Tokyo, à la Biennale de Venise, au Beirut Art Center, Fouad Elkoury présente, avec cette installation de plusieurs diaporamas vidéo, sa deuxième exposition à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Comme il l’explique, « tout est parti d’un poème d’Etel Adnan To live in a time of war / Vivre en temps de guerre, que je tenais à illustrer. Avec le temps, et au gré des associations d’images, ce souhait s’est transformé en une projection multiple, une sorte de pièce en trois actes qui raconte plusieurs histoires à la fois. |
Pouran Jinchi
ARTIST IN EXILE: Creativity, Activism, and the Diasporic Experience | Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery/Sun Yat Sen Hall, St. John’s University, New York, USA | April 1 - May 3, 2014
The exhibition showcases recent works, including paintings, sculpture, photography and video by Shiva Ahmadi, Reza Aramesh, Shoja Azari, Pouran Jinchi, and Lara Tabet. These artists’ alternative perspectives address issues of innovation, displacement, and identity as tension and conflict, as well as the impact and challenges of mobility and migration on aesthetic experimentation and creative strategies. Featured artists: Shiva Ahmadi, Reza Aramesh, Shoja Azari, Pouran Jinchi, and Lara Tabet |
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Perduti nel paesaggio/Lost in Landscape | Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | April 5 – August 31, 2014
Lost in Landscape is a major exhibition dedicated to contemporary landscape and its many meanings: space, environment, territory, the place in which one lives and which one leaves. Curated by Gerardo Mosquera, it tackles the subject through the works of over 60 artists from around the world, many of which never before presented in Italy. On display will be over 170 photographs, 84 paintings, ten videos, four video-installations, four installations, four context-specific interventions, one web-specific project and one artist's book (Ed Ruscha). |
 Slavs and Tatars, Hymns of No Resistence (Stuck in Ossetia with You), 4 Song sheets, 43 x 33.50 cm |
Slavs and Tatars
Take Liberty! | Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway | April 11 - August 10, 2014
This group exhibition presents works that explore issues to do with democracy, national identity and personal freedom. Slavs and Tatars are showing Hymns of No Resistance, which features classic and cult pop songs revised to address issues of territorial dispute, language, and geopolitics within greater Eurasia. From an adaptation of Michael Sembello’s Flashdance track “Maniac” becomes “Armenian”, replacing the struggles of an aspiring dancer with those of a diaspora Armenian. Meanwhile, “Young Kurds” – a retelling of Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks”, tells the story of Massoud and Shirin, a Kurdish couple trying to carve out their own identity. “Stuck in Ossetia with You” (originally “Stuck in the Middle with You” by Stealers Wheel) looks at the recent Russian-Georgian conflict.
Artists represented in exhibition include Slavs and Tatars, John Akomfrah, Maja Bajevic, Andrea Bowers, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Olga Egorova og Natalya Pershina (Chto Delat), Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jihan El-Tahri, Matias Faldbakken, Rainer Ganahl, Sharon Hayes, Marianne Heier, Susan Hiller, Glenn Ligon, Jumana Manna og Sille Storihle, Aleksandra Mir, Pussy Riots, Superflex, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei. |
 Babak Golkar, Time to Let Go, 2014, Terracotta pot |
Babak Golkar
Offsite: Babak Golkar | Vancouver Art Gallery | April 25 - September 28, 2014
Vancouver-Based artIst Babak Golkar will present several large terracotta pots at Offsite. Each vessel is uniquely designed to contain a scream, providing a unique location for viewers to release excess feelings encountered in the everyday. Both clever and playful, Golkar's installation takes a critical look at the effects of increased expectations and anxiety in contemporary society. |
Hassan Hajjaj
My RockStars Experimental: Volume 1 | LACMA, Los Angeles, USA | December 21, 2013 - July 20, 2014
Hayv Kahraman and Slavs and Tatars
Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond | The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey | January 9 - May 8, 2014
Ala Ebtekar
The Vastness is Bearable | Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara | January 25 - December 7, 2014
Now Read This | Boise State University Arts Gallery, Idaho, USA | February 20 - October 20, 2014
Hayv Kahraman
ARAB CONTEMPORARY - Architecture, Culture and Identity | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk, Danemark | January 31 - May 4, 2014
Zineb Sedira
Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea | SeaCity Museum, Southampton, UK | February 8 - May 4, 2014
Slavs and Tatars
As You Can See: Polish Art Today | Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland | February 20 - June 1, 2014
Huda Lutfi
CREATIVE FUSION: International Artist Residency Program | The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA | March 1 - May 31, 2014
Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Lamya Gargash, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Hassan Hajjaj, Huda Lutfi, Youssef Nabil
FotoFest 2014 Biennial - Contemporary Arab Photographic Art, Houston, USA | March 15 - April 27, 2014
Zineb Sedira and Youssef Nabil
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists | MMK Museum fur Modern Kunst - Frankfurt, Germany | March 21 - July 27, 2014
Sophia Al-Maria
GCC: Achievements in Retrospective | MoMA PS1, New York, USA | March 23 - May 25, 2014
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists | Nelson-Atkins Museum | August 31, 2013 - March 30, 2014
Youssef Nabil
Ri-conoscere Michelangelo | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy | February 18 - May 18, 2014
Ebtisam AbdulAziz
The 32nd Annual Exhibition of Emirates Fine Arts Society | Sharjah Art Museum, East Wing | February 19 - April 30, 2014
Sophia Al Maria
Bridge Commission Audio Walks | Serpentine Gallery project, London | September 2013 - September 2014 |
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