The 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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From 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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Four 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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In 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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