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Showing posts with label art in the Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art in the Middle East. Show all posts

February 2, 2009

... iar altii expun arta din Orientul Mijlociu

Mai precis, domnul Saatchi, care a lasat putintel arta din UK la o parte si se axeaza pe lucruri inedite. N-am avzut expozitia, dar cred ca trebuie vazuta tocmai pentru ca e arta contemporana de acolo de unde este. De la Laura CUmmings (for the Guardian) citire:

"Whatever one may have expected from the Saatchi Gallery's major show of contemporary art from the Middle East, it was never going to be intricate patterning or calligraphy. Only someone who has forsworn television news for decades could assume that a ban on representation still holds in Islamic cultures. Consider those statues, consider those wall-sized portraits of ayatollahs.

But it is still amazing how far into politics this art bravely goes and it is no overstatement to speak of bravery in this case