Spring 2007
Abdellah Karroum
By Abdellah Karroum Spring 2007 | Gallery From the Rif to the Canaries and back again, always within the vast territory of the Tamzgha. (1) But Younès Rahmoun’s work seeks to transcend geographic spaces, through the penetration of these spaces in the form of the procession imposed in “visiting” his works. Younès is a mystical artist,…
Fall 2006
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By G. Carole Woodall In recent years, Turkish cinema – be it produced by Turkish, European companies or joint ventures – has garnered more attention in international film festivals and competitions. Internationally recognized and awarded films by directors, such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akin, have been instrumental in situating Turkish…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By ArteEast ” Theatre never ends. We have suffered, but our children will not,” was the optimistic statement made by nine Turkish countrywomen at the end of the play “The Outcries of Women.” Their performance was a result of intense preparations, which transformed their own tragic stories into a play under the…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By Catherine Simpson A film festival weaves a narrative. Through their programming national film festivals tell a story about a country at a particular time. When we organised the first Turkish film festival in Australia in 1998, we deliberately set out to challenge and educate an Australian audience that had outdated notions…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By M. Zeynep Dadak Is transnationalism necessarily a study of multiculturalism? Or is it a case of translating the transnational structures of nation, self, and community into “translational,” as Ackbar Abbas puts it? Here I offer a comparative approach to the representation of the so-called blossoming, multicultural Istanbul, particularly its relationality with…
Summer 2006
By Lori A. Allen Summer 2006 | Gallery ArteEast is excited to present the premiere of new work by renowned photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti’s color photographs of places and people in Palestine are unique and compelling because they highlight liminality – of childhood, of old age, of living between what is staged and what is spontaneous,…
By Lori A. Allen Summer 2006 | Gallery Between two worlds. One of extreme grit, isolation and heaviness. Another light, glowing, surreal. The subjects of these photographs are suspended somewhere in between, stretched on a torturer’s rack, neither wholeness nor disintegration their clear fate. Suspended in potential energy searching for release. There is always a straining,…
Spring 2006
Ali Kaaf
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Muhammad Al-Ameri The main hall of Darat al-Funun was clad with the beautiful black, a black created by the artist Ali ‘Kaaf’, who presents a particular way of thinking about ‘creative’ artistic work that is far from colorful. Ali studied at the hands of the Syrian artist Marwan Kassab Bashy, who…
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Jaime-Faye Bean and Sarah A. Rogers The work of Ali Kaaf visualizes the simultaneous emergence and dissolution of form, depth, and light. In the series Aswad (2002-03), thick lines of black ink bulldoze across white paper. Sometimes only a corner of the surface is left untouched so that the thin paper curls under…
Livia Alexander
Spring 2006 | ArteZine By Livia Alexander I well remember the first time I saw an Ahmed Zaki film. The year was 1998. It was late at night and I was sitting in my Dokki apartment taking a break from Arabic homework That night, Channel Two was showing the film (The Wife of an Important Man,…
