Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by Adel Abdessemed and published by Drago (Roma). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Mutanti serves as the exhibition catalog to the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici exhibition of the same title. The catalog is made up of five volumes that correspond to the five artists participating in the show. The work of Adel Abdessemed, Stephen Dean, Ellen Gallagher, Adrian Paci, Djamel Tatah makes it clear from the outset that they come from complex historical backgrounds. The unifying concept between these artists lies in their approach to expressing how individual cultural identities develop as a result of migration, colonization, and post-colonial sentiments in the Western world. The artists themselves are multinational, multi-ethnic, or multicultural, and at times all three; however with such infinite reference and concourse, they neither obliterate each other in the name of some idealized community nor efface distinct histories and pasts into the melting pot of the ever more globalized world. Above all, their creations are the concrete result of the process of hybridization. Their works are products of mixed media and various developments, which produce multi-faceted pieces upon which the concepts of identity and multiculturalism can be reflected and interpreted on an infinite number of levels. The Villa Medici offers I Mutanti a home that looks significantly toward the future while maintaining a close tie to the past in a city whose history has been built on influences of hybridization through continuous contact with different civilizations, Rome.
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by Adel Abdessemed and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1990s, Algerian-born, New York-based Adel Abdessemed has unerringly located and triggered the religious, sexual and racial taboos of our culture. This volume takes a broad look at Abdessemed's activities, from his "street acts" to more recent works.
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by Larys Frogier and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised around an extensive essay by Larys Frogier, this monograph offers an overview of the work of Adel Abdessemed.
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by Adel Abdessemed and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published alongside an exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art (22 September - 21 November 2010), the first solo exhibition in London that is dedicated to the work of Adel Abdessemed. Working across a wide range of different media, including sculpture, installation, video, photography and drawings, Abdessemed passionately tackles difficult subject matter and taboos within society and presents them as naked truth. Yet beyond their often challenging and provocative appearance, his works embody the fragility of life and are deeply imbued with beauty and poetry. Abdessemed's exhibition at Parasol unit highlights precisely the vulnerability and aesthetic sensitivity in the work of this important twenty-first-century artist. The exhibition is organised around two of his major works; Habibi, 2003, a 17 metre human skeleton made of fibreglass; and silent warrior, which includes numerous colourful masks made from found and empty tin cans from Africa, which once contained either food or toxic material. Abdessemed was born in Algeria in 1971 and now lives and works in Paris.
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed Bristow written by Hannah Barry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Adel Abdessemed L Age D or written by Pierluigi Tazzi and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Age D'Or is the new work of Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed (born 1971). This gold-cloth-covered box set contains three volumes: one volume of drawings, a photography volume and an essays volume with four texts in English and Arabic.
Download or read book Brushes with Faith written by Aaron Rosen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary artists are engaging more deeply than ever with religious imagery, themes, practices, and audiences. With a bracing, jargon-free style, Aaron Rosen—a leading scholar, art critic, and curator—takes readers into studios, galleries, and worship spaces as he paints a compelling picture of art and religion today. Focusing on individual artists, from eminent names to emerging stars, Rosen’s essays and interviews tackle key questions, from how art might sustain communities to how it might offer new approaches to conflict resolution. Drawing on years spent developing relationships with artists around the globe—from Algeria to India to the United States—Rosen gets artists to talk, often for the first time, about how religion impacts their practice. Whether inspiring or unsettling, these brushes with faith challenge and invigorate the artists in question, and those who ponder the results. Replete with more than seventy color images of works ranging from video art to outdoor installations, this volume is indispensable reading for those looking to see contemporary art in a new light.
Download or read book Taxidermy written by Alexis Turner and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From style wilderness to height of cool, taxidermy has staged an extraordinary comeback. No longer confined to stately homes, stuffed animals are appearing everywhere from modern apartments to luxury department stores. High-profile artists have rejuvenated the medium and museums have dusted down their historic collections and put them back on display. Illustrated with stunning photography that explores this rich artform, past and present, this title is the most comprehensive and beautiful survey of taxidermy ever produced.
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Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by Adel Abdessemed and published by Edition Kamel Mennour. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed Je Suis Innocent written by Adel Abdessemed and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First coming to widespread attention in 2000, the work of Adel Abdessemed has been generally understood as an intuitive and searing response to the convulsions shaking the contemporary world in its religious, political, economic and moral aspects. The artist has been said to re-appropriate the primal powers of violence and destruction by creating braided aeroplanes, a rolled-up fuselage, burnt-out cars moulded in terra cotta, rows of barbed wire... Installations, performances, drawings, sculptures, videos, photos - Abdessemed employs multiple media to register the signs of violence scattered across the world, to capture the hubbub of history and render it in images. True as these views may be, this book and the accompanying major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou offer a thorough reappraisal of them. I am Innocent shows that history in its chaotic, convulsive and conflicting forms is not the object of Abdessemed's art but rather its material, which is thoroughly reworked, stylised and sublimated to the images of the world. Abdessemed's work belongs to a history of art that exceeds the narrow limits of the contemporary. Today's world may supply Abdessemed with his raw materials, but he subjects them to dream-like displacements and transformations.
Download or read book 700 Artists Processes written by Maxime Chanson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Road written by Kim Phuc Phan Thi and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames—before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It’s a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived—but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country’s freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul? Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain. Fire Road is a story of horror and hope, a harrowing tale of a life changed in an instant—and the power and resilience that can only be found in the power of God’s mercy and love.
Download or read book Running Away written by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unnamed man travels to Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, but finds himself increasingly unmoored from his life and identity. Caught in a jet-lag reality, he stumbles from adventure to adventure, allowing himself to be led not by sense or instinct but by the onrush of experience, until a call from home jars him back into his life, with all of its own confusions." "In Running Away, the Chaplinesque slapstick of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's acclaimed early works The Bathroom and Camera is replaced by an ever-unfolding fabric of coincidences and misapprehensions, both particularly modern and utterly real. The mature Toussaint shows himself to be no less ingenious an inventor of existential dilemmas, but with a new, surprising tenderness, and a deepened concern for the inexpressible immediacy and sensuality of human experience." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Adel Abdessemed written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adel Abdessemed. Works (1988-2015)" offers the comprehensive entry into the international artist's work. Adel Abdessemed has created over recent decades one of the most stimulating, controversial, and elaborate body of works to be seen today, making the present an open field for thought and life. Bringing together over 1300 images of the artist's works, commented by leading art historians Giovanni Careri (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and Angela Mengoni (IUAV, Venice), and the curator and critic Pier Luigi Tazzi, including essays on the artist's work by some of the world's most seminal thinkers, such as Hans Belting, Julia Kristeva, Philippe-Alain Michaud and Jacques Rancière, this three-volume publication proves an invaluable contribution to a contemporary art library. (source site de l'éditeur).
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