Winter 2007
Lucy Lippard, Hamdi Attia
By Lucy Lippard Winter 2007 | Gallery With Public Figures, a series of densely political videos manipulated so that the subjects expose themselves and their post 9/11 agendas, Hamdi Attia slyly insinuates himself into their discourse — into the billion-dollar business of TV news and commentary. Born, raised, and art-schooled in Egypt, now living in New York,…
Hamdi Attia
By ArteEast and Hamdi Attia Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: Artists are struggling to find a way to deal with the complexity of the world today as it is made manifest in multiple and interlinking political, cultural, and social…
Maymanah Farhat, Abdelali Dahrouch
By Maymanah Farhat and Abdelali Dahrouch Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: The cultural critic Homi Bhabha has argued that: “The globe shrinks for those who own it; for the displaced of the dispossessed, the migrant or the refugee, no…
Jayce Salloum, Maymanah Farhat
By Jayce Salloum and Maymanah Farhat Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: There is no one transcendental state of contemporary international art, but if you are speaking of the ‘art market’ then it is generally as it always has been,…
Maymanah Farhat, Athir Shayota
By Athir Shayota and Maymanah Farhat Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: The state of contemporary international art exists in at least two forms: the first is the market driven product that challenges no authority and reflects on benign notions,…
Maymanah Farhat, Mustafa Ali
By Mustafa Ali and Maymanah Farhat Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: Fragmentation, aimlessness and uselessness are the big events that have affected art activity. The harshness of the experience appeared in the big movement. Reflected in all art activities…
Maymanah Farhat, Khaled Hafez
By Khaled Hafez and Maymanah Farhat Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: I can easily say that I am lucky to be 43 years old!!! Let me explain, when 23 years ago I, with some of my artist peers, was…
Maymanah Farhat, Samia Halaby
By Samia Halaby and Maymanah Farhat Winter 2007 | ArteZine Q: How do you see the state of contemporary international art? How does art function in today’s global society? A: I think the word “art” is difficult because it covers so much. I prefer to discuss my own area of expertise, pictures. Pictures in numerous media serve mankind…
Fall 2007
Christa Salamandra
By Christa Salamandra Fall 2007 | ArteZine Before the 1990s, elite Damascenes rarely ventured into the Old City, a place then associated with the backwardness of an embarrassing past. Most wealthy, “old notable” families moved from their Old City neighborhoods decades ago; their children and grandchildren are returning to them now, not to live as their…
Walter Armbrust
By Walter Armbrust Fall 2007 | ArteZine It is no secret that black and white Egyptian films are powerful objects of nostalgia. No secret either that the films are remembered by their actors above all else. My nomination for the most popular Egyptian actor of all time would be the comedian Isma’il Yasin. He was born…
