Their aim is to renew aesthetic visions and to expand the frontiers of receptivity to art. The artist explores his longstanding interest in identity, narrative and biography in a haunting installation with light bulbs and a photograph of a woman.Īshock Adicéam, curator of ILLUMINATIONS (After Arthur Rimbaud): Sculpting the Light from the East, writes in the catalogue essay, “The artists and works selected for this show express the hope for social transformation through the use of light. Shezad Dawood illuminates a tumbleweed with light blue neon script in Arabic, which is encased in acrylic.Ī highlight of the exhibition will be Christian Boltanski’s Lumieres (vertical green rectangle - Catherine), 2000. In a 2009 sculpture, Claude Levêque writes Rise of the Poisoned Youth in white neon. Leila Pazooki uses blue neon tubes to sculpt a Farsi word in Orientalism, 2010. The artists in the exhibition, who represent countries including France, Germany, China, Iran, the UK, the US, Turkey, Algeria and Pakistan, are: Osman Akan, Vahap Avsar, Christian Boltanski, Zoulika Bouabdellah, Chryssa, Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin, Claude Levêque, Leila Pazooki, Jack Pierson, Martial Raysse, Anselm Reyle, Ko Siu Lan, Keith Sonnier and Leo Villareal.Ī number of the artists are inspired by neon lighting: Only God Knows I’m Good is spelled out and sculpted in white neon in a 2009 piece by Tracey Emin. As Rimbaud wrote, “…the soul for the soul, summing up everything, perfumes and sounds and colours.” A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Adicéam will accompany the exhibition.Ĭreating a revealing dialogue between artists living and working in the East and West, ILLUMINATIONS (After Arthur Rimbaud): Sculpting the Light from the East highlights the strength of light to bind different cultures together. Inspired by a collection of poetry entitled Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), the exhibition is curated by Ashok Adicéam, an independent curator and art advisor.
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