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Art HK 10 |
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Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 27th May 2010 to 30th May 2010 |
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We are at Booth L04 at Art HK 10. Works at the booth include:
Hamra Abbas, Lessons on Love is a set of three life-sized sculptures. The amorous couples she depicts are amusingly entwined in acts of both love-making and war. Mining the Mughal-era miniature, Abbas offers her viewers a broader reading of a traditional form, married with a playful comment on the ambiguities of geo-politics today.
Bani Abidi's critically acclaimed photographs Karachi Series 1, are a poignant investigation into the loss of Pakistan’s diverse cultural character in the face of the increasing Islamisation of the nation’s society.
Nazgol Ansarinia’s Non-Flammable, Non-Stainable, Non-Stick, takes the form of a delicately patterned sofreh or table-covering. The patterns relate mathematically to the consumer price index in Iran’s urban areas, offering a figurative representation of the realities of home economics and bringing to mind the impact on the everyday lives of its citizens of Iran’s oil-rich, sanction-constrained economy.
Muhanned Cader’s Coded and Loaded, continues his investigation into the language of drawing. His delicately crafted hieroglyphic-like forms, crafted from drawing and mapping found shapes in printed matter – including sources such as Coomaraswamy’s Medieval Sinhalese Art, Art Forum, Infinite World of Fantasy Art, The Map Book and Giotto to Durer – offer the viewers a deeply intense study of form.
Ali Kazim’s new series of paintings offer a formal play on negative space and composition. The same air of mystery associated with his earlier work, pervades this series but this time is entwined with a witty mood. Kazim’s technique of layering colour upon colour through a series of washes that results in his textured finishes, echoes richly through the sensitive treatments of his new motif, the fish.
Hadi Tabatabai and Mohammad Ali Talpur’s works are formal studies in line, repetition and abstraction. Both artists offer different, and often mesmerising, takes on the aesthetics of minimalism – Tabatabai working meticulously in grout and thread and Talpur meditatively on canvas.
Hajra Waheed’s drawings/collages are studies of the anomalies of life in the four Saudi-Aramco compounds within Saudi Arabia. Reminiscent, at a casual glance, of the oil-happy years of the 1970s, there is a unmistakable sense of unease within these drawings of women, lounging by the swimming pools that Waheed has chosen to focus on, in these four high-security, city-scale compounds belonging to the world’s largest oil company.
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Hamra Abbas, Lessons on Love, 2008, Wood, resin, acrylic paint and metal, 157 x 135 x 80 cms
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