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Category Archives: Exhibitions – Europe – Individual Artists

Adonis on Giving Freedom to His Hands

10 Friday Apr 2015

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Adonis

“Everything is poetry,” Adonis said. “The difference between a poem and a painting is simply the material that has been used.” Often called the Arab world’s greatest living poet, but also well-known for his essays and a seminal book of literary criticism, Adonis spoke to The Daily Star on the eve of the opening of “A,” an exhibition of his visual art. “The relationship between a piece of paper and a stain of ink,” Adonis continued, “there’s composition, there’s musicality, vertical dimensions. It just depends who the artist is.”

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Shahriar Ahmadi at Across Borders Gallery, Zurich

27 Sunday Jan 2013

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Shahriar AhmadiThe Across Borders Gallery, Zurich will showcase the Iranian artist Shahriar Ahmadi’s most recent series ‘Kiss’ in February 2013. Ahmadi’s work is characterized by an expressive and gestural style, which translates the literary heritage of Iran in an emotional and personal way.

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Tate Modern to Present Major Exhibition of Sudanese Artist Ibrahim el-Salahi

21 Monday Jan 2013

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Ibrahim el-SalahiFrom July 3rd to September 22nd, 2013, Tate Modern will present the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (b. 1930). Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveal his place in the context of a broader, global art history.

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Egyptian Art Today: Collective Exhibition in Switzerland

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Egyptian artists in SwitzerlandFour Egyptian artists will exhibit a collection of paintings, photographs and installations at the Across Borders Gallery in Lucerne in February 2013.

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Walid Raad: A Mediator Between Worlds

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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walidraadIn a new project at the Louvre’s Salle de la Maquette, the Lebanese-born artist Walid Raad uses the language and procedures of museums and academia—the archive, the slide show, the PowerPoint presentation, the wall-mounted information panel, the documentary photograph—to exude an air of informative authority.

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