Chiharu Shiota presenta la instalación "Departure" (2018) en el recién inaugurado Jameel Arts Centre. Su exposición individual forma parte de los Artist's Rooms, una serie de exposiciones individuales pensadas en un diálogo específico entre los artistas invitados y el nuevo espacio artístico en Dubai.

Chiharu Shiota presents 'Departure' (2018) in the recently opened Jameel Arts Centre. Her solo exhibition is part of the Artist's Rooms, a series of solo shows that engage a specific dialogue between the invited artists and this brand new art space in Dubai.

11 NOV 2018 - 11 MAY 2019

Gallery 10, Jameel Arts Centre, Jaddaf Waterfront - Dubai

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"Departure is an immersive installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, which explores ideas of displacement, time and the entanglements of life. The work has been specially commissioned for the opening of the Jameel Arts Centre.

Working with large quantities of yarn, Shiota creates immersive web-like structures that take over entire rooms. Building on her experience growing up in Japan and moving to Berlin in the 1990s, her work often touches on the notion of travel, belonging and the complexity of the human condition.

In this particular installation, Chiharu works with traditional abra boats, referencing the history of the Dubai Creek and the city’s identity as a meeting point of people, goods and ideas.

Drawn largely from the Art Jameel Collection, Artist’s Rooms is a series of solo exhibitions by influential, innovative artists, with particular focus on practitioners from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. These capsule shows are collaborative: curated in dialogue with the artist, with some presentations including new commissions. Winter 2018-19 features rooms by Maha Malluh, Mounira Al Solh, Lala Rukh and Chiharu Shiota in galleries 1, 2, 3 and 10."

ExpoArteMadrid realizó una interesante entrevista a Pipo Hernández Rivero con motivo de la exposición individual, "Lounge" en NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ.

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ExpoArteMadrid had an interesting interview with Pipo Hernández Rivero regarding his solo show, 'Lounge' at NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ.

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Charla con el artista Mauro Giaconi

Artist talk with Mauro Giaconi

21 SEP 2018

Dance Theater, University Center for the Arts (Colorado State University)

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El trabajo de Giaconi tiene lugar en el campo de la escultura, la instalación y principalmente el dibujo, que opera como el corazón de toda su producción y punto de partida para generar intervenciones espaciales e imágenes que se mueven a través de la estética del caos y la investigación procesal. La arquitectura, la estructura, la memoria y el entorno son todos elementos clave en la práctica del artista, que se centra en proponer experiencias que crean tensión entre conceptos opuestos como construcción y destrucción; nacimiento y muerte; confinamiento y libertad; profundidad y superficie; soñar y despertar.

Giaconi’s work takes place in the field of sculpture, installation and mainly drawing, which operates as the heart of all his production and starting point to generate spatial interventions and imagery that moves across  the aesthetics of chaos and procedural investigation. Architecture, structure, memory and environment are all key elements in the artist’s practice, which focuses on proposing experiences that build tension between opposite concepts like construction and destruction; birth and death; confinement and freedom; depth and surface; dream and awakening.

Fritzia Irizar participa en la exposición colectiva "Cycles of Collapsing Progress", organizada por el Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) y STUDIOCUR/ART, en el Rashid Karami International Fair, en Trípoli, Líbano

Fritzia Irizar participates in the group exhibition 'Cycles of Collapsing Progress',  organised by the Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) and STUDIOCUR/ART, at the Rashid Karami International Fair, in Tripoli, Lebanon

22 SEP - 23 OCT 2018

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The notion of cyclical time, common to past civilizations, is now considered archaic, for according to Romanian intellectual, Mircea Eliade modern societies have a linear understanding of time. This contemporary understanding considers progress as the only possible outcome and therefore does not take into account repeated cycles of collapse. 

The contemplation of the life and death of civilisations can be traced back to the medieval Tunisian-born historian Ibn Khaldoun, who suggested that historical cycles function in a loop, starting as Umran Badaoui (bedouin civilisation) evolving into Umran Hadari (urban civilisation) before collapsing. Recent studies by American historian, Joseph Tainter on the collapse of complex societies, like the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Mayas, show there are several possible causes for their downfall, including natural disasters, wars, and epidemics. But one theory can be singled out. When a society becomes highly stratified, it is more likely to fall, as the cost of maintaining it is high. In the aftermath of the collapse of modernism or as Bruno Latour actually suggested we have never been modern, scientists affirm that since the anthropocene era, our future decline will be caused by an impending ecological disaster due to global warming. If -human beings, nature, and even history - functions cyclically, it is possible to think about the limits of progress and the cost that entails. 

The exhibition will present 18 projects in total, including 8 commissioned artworks along 10 produced works by artists from Lebanon and Mexico. The meeting of the two scenes allowed the exchange of geographical perspectives on the theme. This project includes residencies in Beirut (BAR-Beirut Art Residency) and Guadalajara (PAOS GDL). 

Karina El Helou (curator)

Participating artists: 

Rashid Karami International Fair: 
Edgardo Aragon, Ali Cherri, Jose Davila, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Lamia Joreige, Fritzia Irizar, Jorge Mendez Blake, Damian Ortega, Marwan Rechmaoui, Gabriel Rico, Stéphanie Saadé, Roy Samaha, Jalal Toufic, Zad Moultaka 

Citadel of Tripoli : 
Rayyane Tabet, Haig Aivazian, Emmanuel Tovar, Pablo Davila