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Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Acid Fields", a solo show of new works by Lebanese artist Shawki Youssef
Released: April 25, 2013Exhibition dates: 06/05/2013 - 23/06/2013 Opening date: 06/05/2013 Green Art Gallery is happy to announce a solo show of new works by Lebanese artist Shawki Youssef. “Acid Fields” continues the artist’s investigation of body representation in contemporary art, and acts as an epilogue to his two previous solo shows; “Hollow Flesh” at Agial Gallery, Beirut and “Fluid Being” at Green Art Gallery, Dubai. Working predominantly on paper, but also on canvas, Youssef’s practice is characterised by his explosive and visceral depictions of the body, often evoking the mutilated subjects foun...
Green Art Gallery Dubai announces a solo show of new works by interdisciplinary artist Shadi Habib Allah
Released: February 25, 2013After a successful year which included a solo at Art Statements, Art Basel 43, Shadi Habib Allah returns to Green Art Gallery for his first solo show at the gallery. Habib Allah’s practice, traverses installation, video and sculpture, in order to examine the structural and material operations of circulations of objects, people, histories and the economy. While each project defines its own terms and the necessary means of engagement he reworks existing structures or make images of images in ways that eventually erase or replace the original, until it is unclear what is original and what ...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents “King Give Us Soldiers”, a solo show of new works by Hungarian painter Zsolt Bodoni
Released: January 6, 2013Exhibition Dates: 14/01/2013 - 03/03/2013 Opening date: 14/01/2013 - 7pm - 9pm Green Art Gallery announces the first solo exhibition of Hungarian painter Zsolt Bodoni in the region. Bodoni’s practice is characterized by large complex canvases, usually depicting industrialist and viscerally atmospheric backgrounds in which his characters innocently exist. Through an investigation and analysis of historical processes, Bodoni draws from archives of literature, art history and music, his practice functioning in an archaeological manner, peeling back layers and tracing collective historie...
Green Art Gallery announces "A Permanent Record For Future Investigation", curated by Kamrooz Aram
Released: October 17, 2012Green Art Gallery presents A Permanent Record For Future Investigation, an exhibition curated by New York-based artist Kamrooz Aram. The show will feature the work of five artists – Nazgol Ansarinia, Talia Chetrit, Iman Issa, Mehreen Murtaza, and Hajra Waheed – whose practices use image-making as a means to negotiate the question of representation. For these artists, representation is understood as a depiction of a space or an object, a description of an event, the writing of history, or the rendering of a memory. In contemporary visual culture, we are well aware of the use of technolog...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Wounds", a series of new works by Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh
Released: September 10, 2012For the opening of the fall season, Green Art Gallery will be presenting ‘Wounds’, a series of works by Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh. This series began and evolved along with the revolutionary movements happening in Syria during the crucial first ten months that the country was in turmoil. Photographing individuals from his social circle, including those who were actively part of the revolutionary movement, Al Azmeh asked his subjects to re-enact and perform the stories that they had witnessed or heard about from what was happening in the streets. As the protests and violence i...
Green Art Gallery Dubai at Art 43 Basel 2012
Released: May 30, 2012Green Art Gallery Dubai announces its participation in the Art Statements section of Art 43 Basel with interdisciplinary artist Shadi Habib Allah’s multimedia installation “S/N: 8F1GNA0021”. The fair will take place in Basel, Switzerland between the 14th and 17th of June 2012. Shadi Habib Allah’s project for Art Statements, “S/N: 8F1GNA0021” is an interplay between the sculptural element and its transformation from the black-market. The accompanying video documents the process of the artist 'commissioning' a camera to be stolen in the clandestine marketplace and the labor of fashioning a ...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Referencing History" a group show featuring artists from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Turkey
Released: May 1, 2012Green Art Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition ‘Referencing History’, curated by London based curator Jane Neal. The exhibition will bring together artists Kamrooz Aram, Hale Tenger, and Ali Banisadr with a selection of some of the most internationally renowned Eastern European artists including Alexander Tinei, Daniel Pitin, Marius Bercea, Zsolt Bodoni, Ivan Grubanov, Ciprian Muresan, Mircea Suciu, and Serban Savu. The artists brought together in this exhibition share an active interest in history, be that a collective or personal one. In several cases the artists share the ex...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents “Brute Ornament” featuring the works of Kamrooz Aram and Seher Shah and curated by Murtaza Vali
Released: March 1, 2012Green Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Brute Ornament”, a two-person exhibition featuring the works of New York based artists Kamrooz Aram and Seher Shah, curated by Murtaza Vali. The exhibition will be accompanied with a comprehensive publication edited by Murtaza Vali and with contributions by Shumon Basar, Media Farzin and Alan Gilbert. Through the works of these two artists, the exhibition explores the conflicted relationship between the decorative tradition of ornament and Western modernism, revealing the constitutive role that ornament played in the development o...
Syrian painter Ahmad Moualla opens seminal exhibition in Dubai with a tribute to late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
Released: October 4, 2011Syrian painter Ahmad Moualla has debuted his most recent body of work at an exhibition held at Green Art Gallery. Entitled “Grey Ash” this exhibition references an earlier body of work created by Moualla in 1997 and which was dedicated to the late Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, who passed away in the same year. Considered one of the founding members of Syrian modern theatre, Wannous wrote an impressive body of short plays whose fundamental theme evolved around the relationship between the individual, society and its authorities; a theme also central to Moualla’s practice. Over a deca...
GREEN ART GALLERY PARTICIPATES IN MOVING IMAGE ART FAIR 2011 WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST SHADI HABIB ALLAH
Released: October 3, 2011Green Art Gallery is thrilled to announce its participation in the 2011 Moving Image Art Fair, with interdisciplinary artist Shadi Habib Allah’s video “The King and the Jester”. The fair is taking place in London between the 13th and 16th of October 2011. The Moving Image Art Fair was created with the intention of showcasing moving-image artworks in an art fair environment while still maintaining a space which allows for these works to be appreciated and understood. The works of 28 artists represented by renowned galleries and institutions from South America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe ...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents a solo exhibition for Syrian painter Ahmad Moualla
Released: September 4, 2011Green Art Gallery opens its Fall 2011/2012 program with a solo exhibition for the acclaimed Syrian painter Ahmad Moualla, presenting a new body of large scale paintings. Marking the artist’s third solo exhibition at the Gallery, the exhibition opens on September 19th and will be on view until November 10th 2011. A reception will be held on the 19th of September from 7 - 9 pm in the presence of the artist. Ahmad Moualla (b. 1958), a Syrian artist based in Damascus, has become well known for his beautifully-painted and highly dramatic canvases. Composed on a grand scale, Moualla’s theatri...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Traces", a solo show of new works by Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh
Released: May 23, 2011Opening Reception: June 6th 2011, 6 - 9 pmExhibition Dates: 06/06/2011 - 15/07/2011In his second solo exhibition at Green Art Gallery Dubai, Syrian photographer Jaber Al Azmeh will be presenting a series of new photographic duets, exploring the dual and complex relationship between human beings and time. The photographic works which the artist views as portraits are however, mysteriously lacking in human content. Instead, their main subjects consist of empty rusting oil barrels, derelict buildings and walls, tires, abandoned cars; a junkyard utopia. Through substituting inanimate objects ...
GREEN ART GALLERY PRESENTS KAMROOZ ARAM AT ART DUBAI, 16 - 19 MARCH 2011
Released: March 1, 2011Green Art Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming edition of Art Dubai, taking place at the Madinat Jumeirah from the 16 - 19 March 2011. The Gallery will be located in the Arena Hall, at Booth A5. Green Art Gallery will be presenting an artist-focus stand of new works by New York-based artist Kamrooz Aram including paintings, drawings and collages created over the past year. This will be Aram's debut in the region. Throughout his career, Aram has investigated the power of symbols and icons such as hawks, angels, mystical light and flags in an effort to explore...
Green Art Gallery Dubai presents “Balloons On The Sea”, a new video installation by Hale Tenger
Released: March 1, 2011Opening Reception: 14th March 2011, 6 - 9 pm Exhibition Dates: 14/03/2011 - 28/04/2011 Green Art Gallery announces "Balloons On The Sea", Hale Tenger's first solo exhibition at the Gallery. Opening on March 14th 2011 and on view until April 28th, the exhibition will introduce Tenger's new 7 channel video installation, entitled "Balloons On The Sea", with music composed by her long-time audio collaborator Serdar Ateşer. "Balloons on the sea" takes its subject directly from a popular pastime practiced along the Bosphorus in Istanbul and along the coastlines of Turkey; a game of shoo...
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