57. Biennale Venedig 2017
57. Internationale Kunstausstellung, 13. Mai - 26. November 2017. Titel: Viva Arte Viva. Kuratorin: Christine Macel.
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The accompanying publication will serve both as an additional site of the exhibition, and as its speculative expansion
Dubai-based artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian have been commissioned to contribute a 30 page series of paintings and collages conceived as a creative playground for the publication, which will go beyond the exhibition’s contents to explore the curatorial concept from additional creative perspectives, both visual and textual. Deepak Unnikrishnan has written a series of contemporary fables for the publication, while WTD magazine contribute a project mapping informal spaces of play in the UAE; both contributions will also have a physical presence within the exhibition space. These creative responses to the exhibition’s themes will sit alongside a series of essays. Art historian Murtaza Vali explores the artistic genealogy of play in the UAE with a focus on the works of Hassan Sharif and Abdullah Al Saadi. Uzma Rizvi will write about fluidity and spaces of belonging, as journalist Osman Samiuddin contributes a piece on cricket, its history and stories within the UAE. Ethnomusicologist Aisha Bilkhair analyses Afro-Emirati music and folkloric games, and Reem Fadda and Maisa Al Qassimi write about the research on Abu Dhabi’s social clubs they incorporated in their curation of Emirati Expressions 2015.
© Foto: Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian. Courtesy Nationaler Pavillon der VAE
57. Internationale Kunstausstellung, 13. Mai - 26. November 2017. Titel: Viva Arte Viva. Kuratorin: Christine Macel.