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CURRENT EXHIBITION YOUSSEF NABIL Time of Transformation April 24 - June 12, 2013 Time of Transformation, Youssef Nabil’s fourth solo show in Dubai
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YOUSSEF NABIL
April 24 - June 12, 2013 |
 Youssef Nabil, Time of Transformation - Installation View (The Third Line) |
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Time of Transformation, Youssef Nabil’s fourth solo show in Dubai premiering the artist’s latest body of work, is on for two more weeks and closes on June 12. Working with his characteristic technique of hand painted silver gelatin photographs, Nabil introduces us to three new series that reflect upon the clash of archetypes that define the state of his present day home country.
This new body of work explores notions of transition and change as Nabil reflects upon an Egypt that is rapidly transforming and acquiring new ideals that he is unfamiliar with. An alien disconnect that has much more to do with the changing landscape than his physical absence, Nabil presents ephemeral imagery that he feels will soon be lost forever. |
 Rana Begum, No.428, 2013, Paint on mirror finish steel, 52 x 70 x 25 cm |
June 19 - July 30, 2013
The Third Line is pleased to present Rana Begum's third solo show in Dubai, No.10, exhibiting metal sculptures coated with vibrant colours that push the relationship between colour, form and three-dimensional space. Taking inspiration from urban order and disorder, Begum creates surfaces and planes that are luscious and seductive. To engage with these works the viewer must walk around them, embracing the materiality and making the viewing of the work a visceral and physical experience.
This new and more playful body of work follows Begum's established practice of working with minimalist aesthetic and urban physiognomies – each work demanding a level of interaction to be able to experience its entirety. As is significant with her previous works, this exhibition explores how the slightest shifts in colour, shape, movement and viewing angle can create complex and beautiful new alignments. |
 Amir H. Fallah, Circling the World to Return, 2013, Collage and pencil on paper mounted on canvas, 152.4 cm diameter |
June 19 - July 30, 2013
The Third Line welcomes back Amir H. Fallah, who will be exhibiting a selection of works in the Project Space, with a solo show to follow in December this year. In The Arrangement, Fallah works with mixed media and collage as his signature style, presenting works of floral arrangements appropriated from the Dutch/Flemish renaissance tradition of floral still-life painting.
For this project, Fallah studied the floral still life paintings of the Golden Age and used iconic visual vocabulary to merge them with contemporary painting techniques that are present within his practice. Each painting in the exhibition is based on a seminal floral still life by a Dutch/Flemish master and has been reinterpreted and rearranged in both its visual and physical form.
Through a starkly different interpretation, this series of paintings not only questions the notion of appropriation throughout art history but also presents a fresh and electrifying take on one of the most iconic painting motifs throughout history – and in doing so, creates a new arrangement. |
 Tarek Al-Ghoussein, K Files 117, 2013, light box, 60 x 90 cm |
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National Pavilion of Kuwait at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (First official participation) | Biennale: June 1 - November 24
Title of the exhibition: National Works, Exhibitors: Sami Mohammad, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Commissioner: Mohammed Al-Asoussi (National Council of Culture, Arts, and Letters), Curator: Ala Younis, Venue: Palazzo Michiel dal Brusà, Cannaregio 4391/A / Strada Nova
The National Council of Culture, Arts, and Letters presents Kuwait’s first Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. Under the general theme of “The Encyclopedic Palace”, proposed by Massimiliano Gioni director of this edition, the exhibition National Works explores two major works by sculptor Sami Mohammad (b. 1943) along with a new photographic production by Tarek Al-Ghoussein (b. 1962). Curated by Ala Younis, National Works disassembles symbols of grandeur in paused/post glorious times, in an attempt to re-interpret Kuwait’s modernization project.
For this exhibition, Tarek Al-Ghoussein tracks encounters with grandness in sites significant to Kuwait's history. This chapter of his K Files, a work in-progress, marks returns to sites of proportion and vastness, with an attempt to consider an individual position within a national body.
The exhibition's publication explores the emotional and theoretical contexts of works at a time when national identity was not questioned, and when modernist projects, cultural or contractual, were national works. |
 Laleh Khorramian, COMMUNICATION SHRINE, 2013, Still from 3 channel video installation, 2:14 min |
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June 13 - 16, 2013
Booth S6 - Statements
Laleh Khorramian - Solo Presentation
The Third Line is very pleased to be participating for the first time in Art Basel, and will be presenting a solo booth by artist Laleh Khorramian in the Statements sector. Khorramian’s mixed media paintings and video installation include objects circulating around the theme of her latest body of work M-GOLIS, a sci-fi/fantasy tale that is seen through the persona of Lt. Aurelio Swimm.
The Third Line is participating with more than 300 leading contemporary galleries at one of the most dynamic fairs in the world today. The Statements sector, one of eight categories at Art Basel, carefully selects proposals that present exciting new solo projects by young and emerging artists.
The works on display are fragments of a future science fiction film titled M-GOLIS, with Khorramian’s presentation focusing on paintings and objects related to the making. The animation, which is yet to be completed, will be the fifth in a series of films relating to the five elements of matter, earth, air, fire, water and ether, with M-GOLIS focusing on ether.
The narrative of M-GOLIS is set on a foreign planet of the same name in the year 2202. The planet ravaged by chemical wastes, is sparsely populated with prisoners whose sentence is to reside there and reverse the pollution by distributing mycoremediating mycelium spores that decompose toxic wastes. The film follows the journey of inmate Lieutenant Aurelio Swimm’s incarceration on the chemically polluted planet, where his consciousness has been altered by his extreme isolation and exposure to a toxic and increasingly hallucinogenic environment. |
 Abbas Akhavan, Study for a glasshouse, 2013 |
Abbas Akhavan
Study for a Glass House | Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives, Brampton, Ontario Canada | June 2 - August 25
Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archive in collaboration with SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Collective] feature the artist Abbas Akhavan whose work explores gardens and domesticated environments, in recognition of Brampton's heritage as Canada's 'Flower town'.
Akhavan's practice ranges from site-specic ephemeral installations to drawing and video, with a focus on spaces just outside the home – the garden, the backyard, and other domesticated landscapes. |
 Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Variation on a Hexagon 7, 1976, Pencil on paper |
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
The world as seen through a Pelican in Plexi - Jef Geys / Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian | WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels | Curated by Dirk Snauwaert | June 7 - September 15 | Opening: 6 June, 7PM
This two person exhibition orchestrates a meeting between the works of artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Jef Geys. Monir is regarded as one of the more inspiring and innovative artists to have come out of Iran. She lived and worked in New York for many years, but the essence of her work has always been the reinterpretation, formal as much as spiritual, of elements of Iranian culture, architecture and traditions. Like Monir, Geys too is interested in geometric forms and their variations, in popular traditions and local customs, in optical illusions and in the beauty and complexity of nature. The show will gather a representative selection of Monir's work, including eleven old and new mirror-reliefs, twelve object drawings, three disco balls and one sculpture. |
 Huda Lutfi, Democracy is Coming, 2008, Mixed Media, 35 x 45 cm |
Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Terms & Conditions | Singapore Art Museum | Co-organised by SAM and Barjeel Art Foundation, guest curated by Mandy Merzaban | June 28 - September 8
Terms & Conditions presents an open-ended debate into how history and social realities are represented, with an emphasis on the Arab world. Artists including Huda Lutfi and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige examine the divide between those who control the discourse and those who are silenced or forgotten. The exhbition draws upon seminal works from Barjeel Art Foundation, Abraaj Group Art Prize Collection, Musée national de l’histoire et des cultures de l’immigration, Paris, as well as private and artists’ personal collections. |
Slavs and Tatars
10 Years On: art and everyday life in Iraq and Iran | Global Futures Forum 2013 | The Mosaic Rooms, Kensington, London | June 7 - 8
For decades, the Western media have shown Iraq and Iran as threats to global peace. This summer, Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art, Design & Media, in partnership with Ibraaz (www.ibraaz.org), is holding an event that will challenge these conceptions. Entitled “10 Years On: Art and Everyday Life in Iraq and Iran”, this two-day public forum will open wide discussions about society, culture and everyday life in Iraq and Iran.
The event programme will include a lecture performance by the arts collective Slavs and Tatars, followed by the launch of their new book Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz. |
Slavs and Tatars, Farhad Moshiri
Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | Tesa 111, Arsenale Nord, at The 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia | Curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi | June 1 - November 24
Love Me, Love Me Not is an exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by 17 artists from Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, and Georgia. |
Pouran Jinchi
New Blue and White | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | February 20 - July 14, 2013
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
The Fold: Absence, Dissapearance and loss of Memory in the work of 12 Iranian Artists | CAB Art Center, 32 - 24 Rue Borrens, 1050 Brussels, Belgium | April 18 - June 15
Le Théorème de Néfertiti (Tea with Nefertiti) | The journey of an art work: the making of an icon | Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris | Curated by: Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath | April 23 – September 8
Abbas Akhavan
United Nations Revisited | Galerie M, Berlin | April 20 - August 4
Farhad Moshiri, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Youssef Nabil
Safar/Voyage | Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada | April 20 – September 15
Slavs and Tatars
L'ange de l'histoire | Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris | April 25 - July 7
Arwa Abouon
Cross-border: Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterranean Region | ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe | April 27 - September 8
Ala Ebtekar
Proximities | What Time Is It There? | Asian Art Museum, San Francisco | May 25 - July 21
Babak Golkar
BIENNALEONLINE
Slavs and Tatars, Farhad Moshiri
Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | Tesa 111, Arsenale Nord, at The 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia | June 1 - November 24 |
 Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz, Published by Book Works/Sharjah Art Foundation |
Beginning as an investigation into the disparate events that bookend the 20th and 21st century — the collapse of Communism and the Islamic Revolution in Iran — Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz traces unlikely points of convergence in Iran and Poland’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories. Drawing on Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, installations, lecture-performances and print media, this publication embraces new contributions on subjects that range from 17th century Sarmatism to the 21st century Green Movement. |
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