The photographer spent nearly 800 days in the Kalahari desert to take these photos.
He published this images in his book called Colors Of Kalahari � .
Kalahari is now a national park.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Spectacular wildlife photography by Hannes Lochner, from South Africa.
Spectacular wildlife photography by Hannes Lochner, from South Africa.
The photographer spent nearly 800 days in the Kalahari desert to take these photos.
He published this images in his book called Colors Of Kalahari � .
Kalahari is now a national park.
The photographer spent nearly 800 days in the Kalahari desert to take these photos.
He published this images in his book called Colors Of Kalahari � .
Kalahari is now a national park.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
TV Santosh, exhibition in LondonT.V. Santhosh's show Burning Flags at Aicon Gallery, London from May 12 - June 12, 2010
T.V. Santhosh's show Burning Flags at Aicon Gallery, London from May 12 - June 12, 2010
The Last Command
Between fits of unhinged manner and hallucinations, he told his story, mumbling… But most of the time he used to lie there with wide-open eyes. Unresponsive, sometimes running for cover under a bed and screaming whenever there was loud noise. When finally he knew enough to recollect bloody faces of atrocities, he slowly came out of his daze, but without an identity of a country for which he submitted his life, without a memory of his wife who was expecting a baby and even without a name. But he still heard absurd descriptions spoken of the battles, orders given frequently and the last commands given, followed by deep silence. He still knew that something terrible was happening somewhere, yet could not endure the feeling of being helpless to intervene or stop it from happening. What he experienced could not be traced to any place or time, nor was there any question about the reality of the chain of events, causes, nor its ill driven agendas. When facing the brutality of war and especially when he felt compelling evidence of such brutality within himself, images of burning flesh, mutilated images of wriggling limbs of death…it was all too real for him and fathomless. That was it! What he mumbled lay there scattered around like broken glass with sharp edges dripping blood…
Going through a bedridden soldier’s feverish mumblings who does not even manage to remember his own name or his country and the cherished memories of his beloved, one would wonder, is it a befitting example of a world we are trying to achieve through the war of nations under the pretext of all kinds of unconvincing reasons? There are many kinds of wars, some trecherous and some absurdly blind. Then there is poor man's war and rich nation's war. A whole lot of world of paradox exists at the thin line between the resistance and attack. When will this world get rid of these wars? My learned friend gave me simple answers - that till there are no more human discriminations, oppressions and crooked foreign policies. Yes, but why such simple answers are not simple solutions? Are utopias mere utopias? Is humanity destined to suffer by brutality of some who want to enjoy the world at the cost of others until those commands would be followed by a deep shrill of silence, turning this land a barren wasteland of live landmines?
My recent works are about how the Media presents the world to us and how the Media has the power and the means to reconstruct as well manipulate our understanding of reality. It is about a strange world vulnerable to manipulation. A world where one brands someone as one’s enemy loots them and then destroys their nation and culture - justifying massacre of innocents in the name of religion and nation, creating a fear psychosis so that one can do one’s brisk real estate and weapons business. My works are specifically an investigation into Media generated world itself.
T.V. Santhosh
The Last Command
Between fits of unhinged manner and hallucinations, he told his story, mumbling… But most of the time he used to lie there with wide-open eyes. Unresponsive, sometimes running for cover under a bed and screaming whenever there was loud noise. When finally he knew enough to recollect bloody faces of atrocities, he slowly came out of his daze, but without an identity of a country for which he submitted his life, without a memory of his wife who was expecting a baby and even without a name. But he still heard absurd descriptions spoken of the battles, orders given frequently and the last commands given, followed by deep silence. He still knew that something terrible was happening somewhere, yet could not endure the feeling of being helpless to intervene or stop it from happening. What he experienced could not be traced to any place or time, nor was there any question about the reality of the chain of events, causes, nor its ill driven agendas. When facing the brutality of war and especially when he felt compelling evidence of such brutality within himself, images of burning flesh, mutilated images of wriggling limbs of death…it was all too real for him and fathomless. That was it! What he mumbled lay there scattered around like broken glass with sharp edges dripping blood…
Going through a bedridden soldier’s feverish mumblings who does not even manage to remember his own name or his country and the cherished memories of his beloved, one would wonder, is it a befitting example of a world we are trying to achieve through the war of nations under the pretext of all kinds of unconvincing reasons? There are many kinds of wars, some trecherous and some absurdly blind. Then there is poor man's war and rich nation's war. A whole lot of world of paradox exists at the thin line between the resistance and attack. When will this world get rid of these wars? My learned friend gave me simple answers - that till there are no more human discriminations, oppressions and crooked foreign policies. Yes, but why such simple answers are not simple solutions? Are utopias mere utopias? Is humanity destined to suffer by brutality of some who want to enjoy the world at the cost of others until those commands would be followed by a deep shrill of silence, turning this land a barren wasteland of live landmines?
My recent works are about how the Media presents the world to us and how the Media has the power and the means to reconstruct as well manipulate our understanding of reality. It is about a strange world vulnerable to manipulation. A world where one brands someone as one’s enemy loots them and then destroys their nation and culture - justifying massacre of innocents in the name of religion and nation, creating a fear psychosis so that one can do one’s brisk real estate and weapons business. My works are specifically an investigation into Media generated world itself.
T.V. Santhosh
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Categoriucal Imperatives- video art
C A T E G O R I C A L I M P E R A T I V E S
Curated by Khaled Ramadan and Anni Venalainen
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Artists: Raed Yassin, Ayman Ramadan, Dalia Al Kury, Mounira Al Solh, Najib Mrad, Khaled Hafez, Lena Merhej, Mireille Astore and Khaled Ramadan
April 12 – May 31, 2010
Mumbai - The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Categorical Imperatives curated by Khaled Ramadan and Anni Venalainen, opening on April 12th 2010. The first show of its kind, Categorical Imperatives will present video works by young contemporary Middle-Eastern artists including Raed Yassin, Ayman Ramadan, Dalia Al Kury, Mounira Al Solh, Najib Mrad, Khaled Hafez, Lena Merhej, Mireille Astore and Khaled D. Ramadan.
The themes explored are encounters between people, situations of life and how the artists perceive the daily world around them. All of the works also relate to the theme of otherness. The spectator on the other hand is in dialogue with the artworks looking for his/her position with the perspectives represented in them.
Raed Yassin was born in Beirut 1979. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003. He works in video, performance, music and audio/ visual arts. He has done performances, videos and recordings. His work is based on themes related to the media, the city, history of contemporary art, Arabic cinema, pornography, pop culture, disasters and archives. His work has been shown across Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Japan. He currently lives in Amsterdam.
About his own work Ayman Ramadan (b.1980 Sharqiya, Egypt) says: "Coming from a background of no formal art training and with strong ties to the street life I have managed to relay my thoughts and feelings into a visual language using mediums of installation and video art. This allowed for an immediate response from the ordinary person. In all my installations and video pieces I have concentrated on the status of the urban working class in a city with a rigid class structure reinforced by both government and cultural attitudes. Ayman Ramadan lives and works in Cairo and San Francisco.
Dalia Al Kury is a 27 year old palestinian/jordanian director living between Jordan and Europe. She has directed many short fiction and documentary films since she first started in 2003. She holds an MA in screen Documentary from Goldsmiths College, UK, and has directed over seven documentary films, all of which were screened in international film festivals or on the Arabic MBC Sattelite TV network. She has been granted support from the TV channel Al Arabya twice including for her last film, “Smile you’re in South Lebanon”. Her approach to images is romantic yet sharp in the way it chooses to depict each and every side of a given issue. Dalia has a sense for portraits and films people as if she painted them, touch by touch with a warm and innocent approach to human nature.
Mounira Al Solh was born in Beirut in 1978. She studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut (LB), and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL). Between 2006 and 2008, she was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her work is multidisciplinary, oscillating between video, installation, writing, photography and painting.
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Lena Merhej is a visual artist living in Beirut. Lena studied Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut (BGD) and majored in Design and Technology at the Parsons School of Design (MFA). At the moment she is teaching at the Lebanese American University, and give workshops in animation, illustration, and comic books. She is a Samandal founding member, the only comic book organization in the Middle East. Lena Merhej says that in the comics and the animation that she does, her stories are about her memories and her experiences in Beirut: family, war and frustration are recurrent themes.
Khaled Hafez ´s (Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963) experimental video work Third Vision: Around 01:00 pm (2008) is a nostalgic narrative of visuals that the artist keeps in his memory and that shape his practice today. From1981 till 1990 Khaled Hafez followed the evening classes of the Cairo Fine Arts while studying medicine. Hafez studied New Media at Transart Institute / Danube University Krems, Austria (MFA). He currently lives and works in Cairo.
Mireille Astore´s work Not From Here is an artwork that attempts to negotiate displacement, exile, migration and identity formation using a historical narrative. Astore says that as an artist she is driven by a need to create an entity between the conscious and the unconscious, the intentional and the unintentional, the political and the apolitical. Mireille Astore (Beirut, 1961) is an artist, a writer and adjunct lecturer at the Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney. She has a PhD in Contemporary Art. Her artworks have been highly acclaimed and have been shown in such venues as the Tate Modern, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 8th Sharjah Biennial, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Home Works IV – Beirut, and Santa Margherita Auditorium, Venice. In 2003 she won the (Australian) National Photographic Purchase Award and she is featured in the Thames and Hudson Publication New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century.
Khaled D. Ramadan is a video documentary maker, curator and art writer. His fields of specialties are the culture and history of broadcast aesthetics, with interests in the fields of aesthetic journalism and documentary film research. He is the founder of the MidEast Cut, Not On Satellite and the Coding-Decoding festivals and the Chamber of Public Secrets. Ramadan has published several documentary films, theoretical texts and books on broadcast aesthetics, journalism and documentary filmmaking. He has serious experience in planning and curating exhibitions, film festivals. Ramadan’s works are shown around the world at major festivals, TV stations and museums. In 2009, Al-Jazeera TV produced a documentary about the Chamber of Public Secrets and Ramadan’s activities and achievement. In 2009, Ramadan was given the Achievement Award of the 11th Cairo Biennial. Ramadan is member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT. Currently Ramadan is the co-curator of the International Manifesta 8 project, Murcia, Spain 2010.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Bright and Positive Paintings by Leonid fremov
Bright And Positive Paintings
By Leonid Afremov.
Today I want to show you amazing paintings of Russian artist
Leonid Afremov. Leonid Afremov tried different techniques during
his career, but he especially falls in love with painting
with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of
long painting process and brings different mood, colors and emotions.
So colorful, lovely and professional at the same time
these breath taking paintings will surely bring you a
lot of positive and peace of mind.
By Leonid Afremov.
Today I want to show you amazing paintings of Russian artist
Leonid Afremov. Leonid Afremov tried different techniques during
his career, but he especially falls in love with painting
with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of
long painting process and brings different mood, colors and emotions.
So colorful, lovely and professional at the same time
these breath taking paintings will surely bring you a
lot of positive and peace of mind.
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