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CAP and Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait: Madi, "The Abstract Work from 1963 – 2013"

Date: April 6, 2013

March 6 - April 6, 2013

Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) in collaboration with Dar Al Funoon present (Madi – The Abstract Work from 1963 – 2013) a retrospective exhibition to honor Madi history & achievements, highlighting the beautiful philosophic abstract contributions linked to his intellectual backgrounds & infinite desire to analyze, dismantle & assemble. This exhibition is an opportunity to stand in front Madi’s outstanding ability in abstract creations in more than five decades on continues.

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Al Masar Gallery, Cairo: Omar El Nagdi “Implusive Expressionism II”

Date: March 31, 2013

March 3, 2013 - March 31, 2013

“Implusive Expressionism II” is a solo exhibition by Omar El Nagdi, one of the most important contemporary Egyptian artists. The exhibition showcases the artist’s most recent works as well as a number of his older works. The exhibition showcases paintings expressing the artist’s impulsive reaction to themes he has stored in his subconscious, themes that excited him and stirred his emotions enough to surface to his conscious through striking masterpieces. El Nagdi’s pictorial vocabulary is rooted in his home country’s politics and in the lives led by Cairo citizens. He obtains such profuse imagery by combining poetry with elements inherited from 20th century artistic trends namely Expressionism, Cubism and Fauvism.  The paintings in this exhibition fuse different sources of inspiration. El Nagdi depicts the jovial and opulent festivities of Egyptian traditions in many of his paintings. Bright colors highlighted by gold leaf in some areas burst out from some of his paintings. The dynamism rendered through the complex composition of figures and decorative patterns echo the lavish festivities & social traditions. El Nagdi through his paintings grasps the liveliness of Egyptian social traditional scenes.

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Art Circle Gallery, Beirut: Annie Kurkdjian, "One Woman Show"

Date: March 28, 2013

February 21 - March 28, 2013

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1972, Annie Kurkdjian received her masters in Management in 1994 before achieving her Fine Arts degree at the Lebanese University. Known for her original and provocative work, her main subject remains the human form whose body parts are manipulated, mutilated, stranded, extended or diminished, tinted of black and grey. Her paintings are provocative but nevertheless playful, tainted with dark humor and depicting the often violent and bizarre side of human psychology.

Her language alternates between expressionism and surrealism and the message she carries is without concession. Tragedy and absurdity are omnipresent, and when faced to her work; we are indebted to think about life’s infirmities and the ironies of our existence. The juxtaposition between the subtle colors she uses and the message she portrays is visually commanding and strikingly creative.

About her ‘One Woman Show’ at Art Circle Annie Kurkdjian declares: “My subjects are syphilitics, mad kings, puppets, ventriloquists, a blood-spitter, the Pope, an obese masturbator, a madman who bites a duck, some prisoners and a woman wearing a checkered hat who finally dares to throw a look through the strange angle of her bent shoulders; in sum they are ‘the orgy of Beirut’. There’s also myself; a woman who grows infinitely in time and space, similar to an elastic thread that then shortens all at once. My paintings are my style, myself (or whom I pretend to be), the skin I live in, my stay in hell, my redemption, my heaven."

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Art Dubai

Date: March 23, 2013

Over the last six years, Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), has become a cornerstone of the region’s booming contemporary art community. In 2012, Art Dubai welcomed 22,500 visitors – including 75 international museums groups – and hosted 75 galleries from 32 countries.

The seventh edition of Art Dubai takes place March 20-23, 2013, at Madinat Jumeirah. Besides the gallery halls, the fair's extensive programme will include commissioned projects and performances, artists' and curators' residencies, educational workshops, the unveiling of works by the winners of the annual The Abraaj Group Art Prize and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum.

Art Dubai is part of Art Week, an umbrella initiative that highlights the plethora of exhibitions, projects and events that now coincide with the fair each March, the most dynamic time in the UAE’s cultural calendar. Special events include Design Days Dubai, the only fair in Asia dedicated to product and furniture design; Sikka, the fair run by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and dedicated to new work by UAE-based artists; and Galleries Nights, featuring 40 new exhibitions across Al Quoz and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC); plus other projects, museum shows and major events throughout the Emirates, Qatar and the Gulf. 

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Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran: Master Ahmad Aali, "Exhibition of Paintings from 1967 to 2012"

Date: March 20, 2013

February 15 - March 20, 2013

Aaran Gallery is honored and privileged to present the latest paintings of Master Ahmad Aali.

My name is Ahmad Aali (aka Boyouk Aga), son of Sakinah (aka Galin Aqa) and Mostafa. Born in 1935 in Tabriz, I am a graduate of photography. My birth certificate bears the number 22. For the past several years this number, 22, has showed up in different "Audio/visual" forms in my life, reminding me of something that I am yet to discover.

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The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai: A Conversation with Artist Ayman Yossri Daydban and Canvas Editor Myrna Ayad

Date: March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013, 2-3 p.m.

Canvas Magazine Editor, Myrna Ayad will join Jeddah based artist Ayman Yossri Daydban for an intimate conversation about his latest development from his Subtitle series, Change, exclusively developed for The Pavilion Downtown’s third annual banner project. The public talk will focus on the public art project which examines the rate of change witnessed today, which has no parallel in history.

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Artellewa, Cairo: Mahmoud Hallwy

Date: March 17, 2013

February 26 - March 27, 2013

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The Defense Fund: There is many forms of human protection and with multiple means to support these forms. The forms of protection have always been associated with the establishment of cities since the beginning of human history. The cities establishment is initiated from the need to build new and different communities rather than the existing ones.

Artellewa is an art space, founded in 2007 and managed by artists. Artellewa is located in Ard El Lewa, a densely populated informal area located between the two great squatter settlements of Cairo, Imbaba and Boulak al-Dakrour. Artellewa aims to connect Ard El Lewa and its inhabitants with the broader culture of the city and the world through art, and creates a unique opportunity for Egyptian and foreign artists to interact and experiment with the local community and environment.

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LACMA, Los Angeles: 2013 Farhang Foundation Nowruz Celebration

Date: March 17, 2013

Farhang Foundation, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), presents its fifth annual Nowruz Celebration at the museum for the first time spanning two days. Fête the arrival of spring with a weekend of exciting activities throughout LACMA’s campus, including a short film festival, musical and dance performances, special presentations of artwork, Persian food, family activities, and more.

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Beirut DC presents Ayam Beirut Al-Cinema'iya, the 7th Arab Film Festival

Date: March 15, 2013

For the 7th consecutive edition, Beirut DC is organizing Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya (Cinema Days of Beirut) Arab Film Festival, which is taking place from the 15th until the 24th of March 2013 in Cinema Metropolis Empire Sofil, Ashrafieh.

This edition includes more than 50 films, varying between feature length films, documentaries and short films, in addition to panels, networking sessions and master classes.

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Carbon 12, Dubai: Anahita Razmi, "Automatic Assembly Actions"

Date: March 14, 2013

January 14 - March 14, 2013

Carbon 12 proudly presents Anahita Razmi’s solo exhibition ‘Automatic Assembly Actions’, opening on January 14th, 2013. Many worlds collide in Razmi’s work: cultural spheres, semantic frameworks, art history, politics, and some of them together. Through appropriation of heritage, symbols, and even other artists ideas, contexts are redefined and concepts juxtaposed. Razmi attacks these systems directly, honestly and relentlessly. Free from conceptual restraints; any surplus is discarded until only the message itself remains.

Introspection and agitation are the two columns of Razmi’s work that are in constant oscillation: creating a tension, where reconciliation is often only possible on a metaphorical meta-level. Boundaries are ignored and borders are crossed: the personal and the political are not to be distinguished, while the modes of production speak for themselves. The title ‘Automatic Assembly Actions’ is a direct reflection of Razmi’s approach. Pictures and artifacts from very different cultural, artistic and social contexts are remixed, almost automatically, to form new layers of meaning and to further deconstruct their inherent mediated presumptions.

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Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo: Xavier Puigmartí, "Clouds for Sale"

Date: March 14, 2013

February 17 - March 14, 2013

The current crisis model and its special emphasis in the artistic field require new thinking strategies. Some of the most evocative are emerging around social networks, real fields of social and cultural activism. Xavier Puigmartí is an "artist of facebook". Tired of working in his studio painting and drawing, but with little chance to show his work, has decided to use this space as a virtual gallery, an imaginary museum for passing his works, landscapes with a beauty and plasticity almost magical, cloudy skies where sometimes appears Cosmic, the character that he created, irreverent and cheeky, and through which he expresses himself. Cosmic, like his creator, lives between Barcelona and Egypt and he likes to share adventures with all his friends of Facebook, an aesthetic and political journey, through which he has created a virtual artistic community. However, the high visibility of the network is in contrast with his limited economic possibilities. A worry that Cosmic transferred to his friends, upset that no one take this problem seriously. So "if there is no money" he declared with his usual impertinence "we have to sell clouds"! The idea came seeing the show windows of Cairo shops, where he discovered in their crystals, clouds painted with a very special color: Spanish white. The images of these clouds that resembled those of his paintings inspired him to create a "clouds store".

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Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York: Zaha Hadid in Conversation

Date: March 14, 2013

March 14, 6 p.m.

One of the formost Iraqis of her generation, and an internationally celebrated architect, Zaha Hadid speaks about culture, transition, and architecture in the evolving Arab World. The event is presented in conjunction with Iraq Now! A ffestival of contemporary Iraqi culture presented in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts.

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Middle East Studies Discussions, NYU: Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi

Date: March 12, 2013

March 12, 12:30 pm

255 Sullivan St. (NYU Middle Eastern Studies Dept.)

Razan Ghazzawi is a Syrian activist and blogger who has been a vocal critic of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Razan, who recently left Syria, will discuss her on-the-ground experiences and observations about revolutionary dynamics, the pain of loss, every-day suffering, sectarianism, and the role of the international community.

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Conversation Between Sama Alshaibi and Michael Rakowitz

Date: March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013 2:00 pm at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sama Alshaibi is a multi-media artist born in 1973 (Basra, Iraq) to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother. Her practice includes photography, video/object hybrids, multimedia installations and sculpture. Alshaibi has a longstanding history of negotiating spaces of conflict in her artwork: the aftermath of war and exile, the power dynamics between the nation and its citizenry and the interaction between humans competing for resources and power. 

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The Metropolitan Museum, NY: Iraqi Culture Event, A Conversation between Sama Alshaibi and Michael Rakowitz moderated by Prerana Reddy

Date: March 10, 2013

Contemporary Artists Discuss the Complex Relationship Between Iraq's Past and Present Through Their Individual Artistic Works.

Sama Alshaibi is a multi-media artist born in 1973 (Basra, Iraq) to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother. Her practice includes photography, video/object hybrids, multimedia installations and sculpture.  Based between Chicago and New York City, Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American conceptual artist who operates within art spaces and beyond them.  Prerana Reddy is currently the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art.  For more information, click here.
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