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"With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century offers the most comprehensive, scholarly and in-depth survey yet of what is happening at the cutting-edge of art in the Arab world." "In the perpetual quest for the new, the exciting and the innovative, the attention of the global art community has in recent years been more and more focused on the Middle East. Exhibitions and articles have highlighted a remarkable burst of creativity in the region, as Arab countries from Syria to Algeria, Egypt to Lebanon and Palestine to Saudi Arabia have launched some of the most fascinating artists in recent years." "The conceptual playfulness of Hassan Khan...
This is the first in the cutting-edge ARTWORLD series which opens up the most challenging and underexposed art scenes in the world, which contains a collection of essays and art works, showcasing artists from the Middle East, in a collection that defies fixed categories, shifting instead through different artistic registers according to more subtle themes.
This book is the first substantial survey of Farmanfarmaian's acclaimed geometric works.
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There Is Fiction in the Space Between' presents eleven outstanding positions of the international art scene in Berlin. Using a variety of media, styles and approaches, the artists address current social issues. The works by William Engelen, Fehras Publishing Practices, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Eva Grubinger, Hanne Lippard, Antonia Low, Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Emeka Ogboh, Peles Empire and Sophie Reinhold cover a wide range of topics and artistic practices. The works introduced here are representative of the working methods of the artists and reflect current debates in the art field. They stand out due to their critical view of the present and examine, for example, architecture, specific places and collective experiences. With research-based projects historical references are made usable for the present and social conditions are depicted. The works presented reflect various aesthetic uses of form as well as transformative processes and provide insights into the diverse art production in Berlin.00Exhibition: n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (02.03.-28.04.2019).
The Lebanese video artists, documentarians and photographers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige have been a duo since the 1990s, making works that address the turbulent history of their homeland. This monograph surveys the duo's projects, including their most recent series of installations and research on the now defunct Lebanese space exploration program.
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