Saturday, April 16, 2011
Slow Art Day

ARTE DEPOSITO Herrenhaus Libnow
Libnow 12
17390 Murchin
Murchin OT Libnow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
DE

Art viewing: 04:00 PM - 11:00PM
Lunch: 6:00 PM -8.00 PM
Cafe: Herrenhaus Libnow

Mohamad Said Baalbaki - Where the sun burns down
Painting and Graphics

The international "Slow Art Day" on 16 April 2011, the gallery arte deposito would use the mansion Libnow the next major solo exhibition by Lebanese artists Mohamad Said Baalbaki open.
The recent events in North Africa and the Arab countries, the images of Baalbaki greater timeliness. Born in 1974 in Beirut in 2002 Baalbaki moved to Germany to finish his art studies at the University of Arts Berlin.
Baalbakis childhood was overshadowed by the Lebanese civil war, which lasted until 1990. In his works, he explores "the relationship between memory, knowledge and imagination and challenges our perception of images. In his playing with forms and similar shows on the artists, how they affect our memories and learned knowledge of the meanings. That we put into an object ". (Bank)

The refusal of the Lebanese Society for the Study of time the civil war makes the contemporary artists and writers to seek ways of processing their own military experiences of history and truth.
In this sense, the works Baalbakis particular his Wunderkammer project "Al-Buraq II", which will be presented at the time the Berlin Georg-Kolbe-Museum, in a context with other Lebanese artists such as Walid Raad and his project The Atlas Group"which finds the recent Lebanese fictional history under various names in the archive creator of the" Atlas Group sets "and provide you with a special system.
The works on display in the mansion Libnow of Mohamad Said Baalbaki in painting and graphics are between or slightly in front of the various projects of fictional history. People are absent in his paintings;. Suitcase, clothes and shoes piled up and over each other and gain a meaning that goes far beyond its mundane features, are symbols of life that is gone, forgotten and left behind by history ".(Bank)
Baalbakis images wrestle with the will of the recovery and restoration of life. The will to "keep the ghosts of the past behind them appear embodied in a small paper boat in two works -" - sailed past the towering trunks and suitcases City Limits "(2008) and" Boat "(2006-2007). " (Bank)

The non-commercial "Slow Art Day" on 16 April is a welcome opportunity for the exhibition opening. World meet on this day are interested in art in museums and galleries to look at a small number of images well and then to discuss in the group about the works and the experienced, felt and thought. The idea of ​​the "Slow Food" applied to art - this is an approach the gallery arte deposito, which would not show to offer works for the fast and the commercial art market, but on a consistent maintenance, development and dissemination of the traditional craft techniques in the art value sets. The works Baalbakis lined up with their profundity into this category.

All quotes by: Charlotte Bank: Where the sun burns down

Host: Jörg Rudolph

Fee: Entrance is free.

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Slow Art Day is a project of the nonprofit Reading Odyssey, Inc.