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Gallery is a quarterly online publication produced by ArteEast. A guest curator selects an artist, or group of artists with a narrowly defined curatorial focus, and presents their work through an image gallery and a curatorial essay. The emphasis is presenting strong works in a rigorous context.

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Winter 2014

Nidhal Chemekh

Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Nidhal Chemekh

By Nidhal Chemekh, Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery Nidhal Chemekh’s visual art has often been described as unsettling. His artistic exploration unfolds around complex and fragmented shapes whose meaning is often blurred, almost absent. His designs evolve in accidents, without a predetermined logic that binds one form to another. What we see is an outburst…

Winter 2014

Simohamed Fettaka

Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Simohammed Fettaka

By Simohammed Fettaka, Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery The artist plays the role of the interviewer,it’s a film about the municipal elections in Tangier, 2009,campaign, discussions, interviews, symbols. Who to vote for and why? The machine can only count in binaries, 0 and 1.0 : not powered1 : powered.This work represents a simplification of relationships…

Winter 2014

Reinventing Fire

Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi

By Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery This issue marks the last installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to reveal the conceptual…

Winter 2014

Reinventer Le Feu

Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi

By Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery Ils l’ont vu surgir avant de le faire surgir d’eux-mêmes. Ils l’ont observé, ils l’ont interrogé, ils l’ont domestiqué. Les papillons se brûlent les ailes infiniment. Les humains créent perpétuellement. A chacun sa tragédie du feu. C’est quand ils ont maîtrisé le feu que les humains ont inventé…

Fall 2014

DIDN’T START THE FIRE: The United Nations Headquarters and Other Monolithic Forms

Nada Ayari

By Nada Ayari Fall 2014 | Gallery Two summers ago in a restaurant on Center Street in New York City, a line from a ‘90s hit song turned into a concept for a group show. I was sitting with some friends arguing the morality of the art world’s fast rallying around Pussy Riot as the Syrian…

Spring 2014

Mapping Arab Art through the Sultan Gallery

Kristine Khouri

By Kristine Khouri Spring 2014 | Gallery The Sultan Gallery is an art gallery initiated by brother and sister duo, Ghazi and Najat Sultan, who opened the gallery in 1969 in Kuwait City, and which closed with the Iraqi invasion in 1990. With a mission to promote and exhibit “modern young Arab artists,” the gallery was…

Winter 2013

ismaël, Photo Shop (Work in progress)

Ismael

By Ismael, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery The factory of forgetting and the factory of Time The images are the raw material for sculpting other images. Images are everywhere; they are so numerous that they create a parallel world. It is not machines or aliens who will occupy the land. Images will do. Perhaps…

Winter 2013

Marianne Catzaras, Artistic approach

Marianne Catzaras

By Marianne Catzaras, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery To the question asked “why do I photograph?” the answer is plural, Yet obsessed with the same concern, that of giving substance To unusual and familiar apparitions playing along with me throughout my journey. Transvestites, deported, fools, nonconformist wandering beings, randomly caught Through chance encounters or…

Winter 2013

Meriem Bouderbala, Exotisme Partagé

Meriem Bouderbela

By Meriem Bouderbela, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery Mon travail de plasticienne a toujours été marqué par ma double origine, tunisienne et française. La culture arabo-musulmane m’empêchait la figuration humaine ; la culture occidentale l’exposait au contraire jusque dans les caricatures de l’Orientalisme. Entre les deux univers, j’ai orienté mes recherches plastiques vers l’interface,…

Fall 2013

Fakhri El Ghezal, on HOSTAGE

Fakhri El Ghezal

By Fakhri El Ghezal, ArteEast Featured Artist Fall, Winter 2013 | Gallery This work does mirror both a subjective and an ironic reaction to the political scheme ruling the world, and certainly Tunisia. This toil interrogates us on the limits and the power of the media, wars and their roles in provoking conflicts, including that of…

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