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CURRENT EXHIBITION Pouran Jinchi The Blind Owl September 18 - October 24, 2013 Pouran Jinchi returns to The Third Line with her third solo show, T
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Pouran Jinchi
September 18 - October 24, 2013 |
 Pouran Jinchi, The Blind Owl Series - Installation view |
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Pouran Jinchi returns to The Third Line with her third solo show, The Blind Owl, continuing her investigation into deconstructing calligraphy and looking into the deeper complexities of the written word. The artist explores the physical form and its signified insinuations through the lens of the dark narratives of The Blind Owl, a major literary work by Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat.
This publication, penned in the late 1930s, explores a grim fascination with death and for the most part was banned in Iran. It was this polemic around the book that aroused curiosity in Pouran’s youth, and has been a source of inspiration for her work. “I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it” - Pouran uses Hedayat’s quote as a point of departure for exploring various media such as intricate drawings on paper and paintings, as well as sculptures in copper and plexiglass, to deliver her experience of the confessional narrative. |
 Nadia Ayari, The Fountain and The Fig - Installation View |
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Nadia Ayari
September 18 - October 24, 2013
In The Fountain and The Fig, exhibiting in the Project Space, Nadia Ayari works with densely painted surfaces, where stark contrasting colours form hyper-natural imagery, provide strong allegories of the sensual and the violent.
For this Project, Nadia’s predominant aesthetic concerns remain with rendering conceptual narratives, whereby the act of painting becomes an important tool in the dialogue. By using heavily conventionalized symbols such as the fig and the tree, she influences the imagery to acquire an element of myth-like storytelling. The densely painted surfaces take on a sculptural quality as Nadia works layer upon layer to construct the visual, subtly manipulating the thick paint to set along the grain of the folded leaf and the curve of the over-ripened fruit. |
Sherin Guirguis
October 30 - December 5, 2013 |
 Sherin Guirguis, Untitled (Noor El-Huda I), 2013, Mixed media on hand-cut paper, 73 x 36 in (detail) |
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The Third Line is pleased to present Sherin Guirguis’ first solo show in the region. Sherin investigates post-colonial themes of political, cultural and social dogma and feminist activism within the framework of the Egyptian diaspora, both in the public and private spheres. Delving deep into the building blocks of culture and identity, specifically from the approach of a diaspora artist, she presents her interpretation of what it means to be defined by the transformative events of the moment. |
 Raja'a Khalid, American Envoy, 2013, Archival Inkjet Print, 37 x 30 Inches, Ed 1 of 5 |
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Raja'a Khalid
Southeast to Armageddon
October 30 - December 5, 2013
The Third Line welcomes back Raja'a Khalid in the Project Space with her exhibit Southeast to Armageddon, in which she brings together a small selection of images from the Middle East chapter of her ongoing 'Minor Histories Archive’ project. The photographs in this exhibition center on how the discovery of Middle Eastern oil in the 1930s, was depicted in the popular Western press at the time and the American perception of Gulf oil companies in the forties and fifties. These photographs are intended to question the objectivity of certain, very public documents, which within themselves acquire a type of bizarre topical relevance with Khalid’s retrospective investigation. |
 Sophia Al Maria, Bint Schrodinger (Schrodinger's Girl), 2013, Video still, Video Installation on 3 cuboglass TV |
17 - 20 October, 2013
Booth G9
The Third Line is pleased to be participating in the 11th edition of Frieze London and will be exhibiting works by Sophia Al Maria, Rana Begum, Ala Ebtekar, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. The booth looks towards the themes of Science, Cosmos and Futurism to provide various interpretations in the practices of artists from the Middle Eastern region and diaspora. The works include concepts of sci-fi, space, imagined future timelines as well as sharp, ultramodern usage of the medium. |
 Babak Golkar, L.C. II, 2009-2013, Wood, stain, metal, paint, 38.1 x 38.1 x 5.1 cm |
24 - 27 October, 2013
Booth 1.F14
The Third Line is pleased to be participating in the 40th edition of FIAC, Paris, and will be exhibiting works by Abbas Akhavan, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Hayv Kahraman, Babak Golkar and Youssef Nabil. The booth explores the theme of Making Visible and looks at the nuances that these artists explore in their work which help to bring to attention that which is concealed or not immediately perceptible. |
 Abbas Akhavan, Dirt/Table, Installation View |
HORS LES MURS – JARDIN DES PLANTES – For the third consecutive year, FIAC will be presenting an off-site exhibition in an emblematic and historic Parisian venue, the Jardin des Plantes and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Abbas Akhavan is presenting Dirt/Table in this section. |
Sophia Al Maria
Bridge Commission Audio Walks | Serpentine Gallery project, London | 28 September 2013 - September 2014
The Bridge Commission is a new, annual commission that marks the opening of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, situated just a seven-minute walk over the bridge from the Serpentine Gallery. The first in the yearly Bridge Commission Walks series focuses on literature. Taking visitors through Kensington Gardens and over the Serpentine Bridge, twelve new literary texts will be made available as audio walks that can be downloaded on visitors' own mobile devices. |
 Slavs and Tatars, Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz, 2011, 10 Textile banners with embroidery |
Slavs and Tatars
Asian Art Biennial | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | October 5, 2013 - January 5, 2014
Everyday Life: 2013 Asian Art Biennial looks into the cultural dynamics of Asian contemporary arts, with special emphasis on how artists develop new aesthetic vision and artistic language through critically reflecting on various aspects of everyday life. In this, the grand narrative of History gives way to individual styles, and the most ordinary aspect of everyday realities becomes the best mirror for reflecting one’s personal, cultural or ideological premises. In the midst of the winds of change, the realm of the everyday has now become the most important site of aesthetic as well as social intervention. |
SOFT PICTURES | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin | October 23, 2013 - March 23, 2014
Curated by Irene Calderoni, and coinciding with the Artissima art fair in Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents a group exhibition dedicated to the use of the textile medium in contemporary art and is exhibiting works by international artists including Slavs and Tatars, who will be showing banners from their Friendship of Nations series. |
 Babak Golkar, Scream, 2013, terracotta scream pots |
Babak Golkar
Dialectic of Failure | West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver | October 10 - December 7, 2013
Known for his inventive practice of developing bodies of work that navigate the spaces between cultural and socio-economical registers, Vancouver-based Babak Golkar’s Dialectic of Failure is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.
Curated by Darrin Morrison and comprised of three parts, Dialectic of Failure engages with clay as its primary medium and features a video, lumps of thrown clay and a series of thirty wheel thrown vessels that function as Scream Pots. Golkar has decided to work with clay for his latest body of work for the first time since his early education to address his longstanding interest in the painstaking and delicate nature of compromise and negotiation between dichotomies: historicism and modernity, art and craft, modern reasoning and traditional mysticism. Golkar’s engagement with the idea of craft derives from his interest in the slow process, which allows for a different model of production and time for thoughts and reflections; a model that can be studied and adapted to address imbalances in contemporary life. |
Grounds for Standing and Understanding, book launch | Charles H. Scott gallery | Launch hosted by West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver | October 10, 2013, 7PM
In conjunction with the opening and in association with Charles H. Scott Gallery, West Vancouver Museum will host the launch of the exhibition catalogue Babak Golkar: Grounds for standing and understanding.
This book includes two essays: Usurping the Big Other: Understanding Symbolic Space by Dr. Jason Starnes and On the Thin Order of Ice by Dr. Abbas Daneshvari |
Ebtisam Abdulaziz
EMIRATI EXPRESSIONS | Manarat Al Saadiyat | October 19, 2013 - January 28, 2014
This new edition of Emirati Expressions will continue the thematic of the first and will reflect on the movement of thoughts; particularly an Emirati cultural heritage, that will be translated through an exhibition of photographers invited to work with the artists to an Emirati expression that is inherently global. Under the artistic direction of renowned photographer Stephen Shore, the exhibition will bring together 10 Emirati artists practicing in the medium of photography. |
 Hassan Hajjaj, Joe Casely-Hayford, 2012, Metallic lambda print on dibond with wood & plastic mat frame, 136 x 101 cm |
Hassan Hajjaj
10 Contemporary Moroccan photographers | El Badi Palace, Marrakech | October 25, 2013
Marrakech hosts new photography exhibition - 10 Contemporary Moroccan photographers – at El Badi Palace, first in a series leading up to opening of permanent home for new Marrakech Museum for Photography & Visual Art in 2016
The new Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Art, designed by British architect Sir David Chipperfield and opening in 2016, will house a permanent collection of lens-based art from the 19th Century to the present as well as contemporary art exhibitions.
The exhibition includes work by Hassan Hajjaj, Yto Barrada, Hicham Benohoud, Carole Benitah, Daoud Aoulad Syad, Hicham Gardaf, Lamia Naji, Leila Sadel, Ali Chraibi and Yasmina Bouziane. |
Youssef Nabil
Youssef Nabil, new monograph book signing
La Hune bookstore, Saint Germain, Paris | October 17, 6:30 - 9 PM
Youssef Nabil will be present at La Hune bookstore, as part of the Parcours Saint Germain events, to sign his new self-titled monograph published by Flammarion. Launched in March 2013, the book includes conversations with noted art critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist and New-York based Serbian artist Marina Abramović. |
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
The Lebanese Rocket Society:The Strange Tale of the Lebanese Space Race, Film Screenings
The Lebanese Rocket Society is an ongoing project comprising a series of installations, and the feature documentary film Lebanese Rocket Society: The Strange Tale of the Lebanese Space Race.
The film will be screened in conjunction with Frieze London at The Electric Cinema, Portobello Road , London - October 15, 6.45PM
Waterside Contemporary , Soda Film + Art and The Caspian Arts Foundation will also present the film at Soho House, 40 Greek Street, London - October 15, 9.30 - 11.45AM
RSVP essential: info@waterside-contemporary.com
The event will be simultaneously broadcast online at thisistomorrow.info
The film will also be screened at FIAC along with a lecture - October 26 (location and time TBC) |
Amir H. Fallah
Sense and Sensibility I Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, 1100 N. Grand Ave., Walnut, Ca 91789 | September 12 - October 17, 2013
Hassan Hajjaj
My Rock Stars: Volume 1 | VCUQatar Gallery, Doha | September 4 - October 24, 2013
Abbas Akhavan
Ten Thousand Suns | Satellite gallery | September 13 - October 26, 2013
Encyclonospace Iranica | Access Gallery, Vancouver | September 14 – October 26, 2013
4th Athens Biennial | Former Athens Stock Exchange, 8-10 Sofokleous st. | September 29 – December 1, 2013.
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
National Pavilion of Kuwait at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (First official participation) | Biennale: June 1 - November 24
PHOTOQUAI 2013 - 4th Photography Biennale | Quai Branly, Paris, France | September 17 - November 17, 2013
Slavs and Tatars, Farhad Moshiri
Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | Tesa 100, Arsenale Nord, at The 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia | June 1 - November 24
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Iran Modern | Asia Society, New York | September 6, 2013 - January 5, 2014
Slavs and Tatars
In the Heart of the Country | The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw | May 14, 2013 – January 6, 2014
Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Babak Golkar, Sahand Hesamiyan
The Blue Route | Villa Empain, Brussels | September 27, 2013 - February 9, 2014
Hayv Kahraman
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists | Nelson-Atkins Museum | August 31, 2013 - March 30, 2014 |
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