Adel Abidin
Adel Abidin was born 1973 BirthBaghdad, Iraq.
Lives and works in HomeHelsinki, Finland.
Categories: Multimedia Venice Biennale
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In my art practice I focus on issues such as cultural alienation and marginalization. Humor and irony are central to my language.
Much More Than a Holiday
Vacuum, 2006, site-specific video installation: broken safety glass on white paper sheets, single channel video projection, 9’25
Adel Abidin video-works explore cultural estrangement and their borders. In his use of form language, Abidin remains sarcastic, amusing and ironic. What about the real relationship between the inside and outside. Who is inside and who is outside? That was the formula which leads him to think of doing this project…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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