Tarek al ghoussein biography of williams
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(Image credit: artighet of Kamel Mennour)
Committed to the boutique approach that has characterised the fair for all its six years, Abu Dhabi Art welcomed fewer than 50 galleries gods week. That included 17 galleries from the MENA region and 29 from the rest of the world, including Lisson galleri, David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth.
Yet the influence of the world's gallery giants was palpable. The fair's home base of Saadiyat Island has been positioned as the Middle East's preeminent cultural hub, and the Louvre and Guggenheim, both coming to town (in 2015 and 2017 respectively), loomed large on the horizon.
Abu Dhabi Art kept pace with the anticipation, asserting its stature in ways other than size. Dubai-based Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, which represents some of the Middle East's most influential and innovative artists, has shown at the fair since its inauguration as Artparis - Abu Dhabi in 2007 and witnessed its evolution in tandem with the city's mål. 'Th
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In pictures: The work of artist Tarek Al Ghoussain
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About the work
In the first Iraq War in 1991, Tarek Al-Ghoussein photographed TV images from the news and reworked them artistically. He repeated this procedure – this time with a digital camera – starting in March 2003, when the second Iraq War began. He wanted to show how differently BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, Dubai TV and other broadcasters report the same event, thereby communicating a divergent understanding of reality to their viewers.
While switching back and forth between the channels, he noticed parallels between the "real" news pictures and the fiction of movies and cartoons, which is why he also included the latter in his zapping sequences. Tarek Al-Ghoussein told Chris Kienke, a colleague at the School for Architecture and Design in Sharjah, about this and they noticed that, independently of one another, they had done almost the same thing. Out of this was born the idea to review more than 1,500 photos and develop a joint installation from those selected. The concept include