Through personal effort and relentless struggle, Hamed Abdalla created a new school of Egyptian painting with its own identity, laws, and philosophy. Born in Cairo in 1917, he drew inspiration from popular neighbourhoods before gaining recognition in Europe in the 1950s. Reviving ancient Egyptian art through folk, sacred, and calligraphic abstraction, Abdalla opposed dictatorship and the commercialisation of art. This book is a collection of some of his work.
Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated with Surrealism. This book is a definitive adocument of the painter and the creative processes and influences behind his work, enhanced by testaments by many of his friends including fellow Surrealists André Breton, Paul Éluard, Roberto Matta and Hans Arp.
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This book presents the work of British artist Bruce McLean, known for his work across disciplines from sculpture, performance art to painting and ceramics, to books and film.
Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.
Intervening Space is a companion publication for an exhibition of six contemporary Algerian artists, held at the Mosaic Rooms. The exhibition, curated by Ali MacGilp and Yasmina Reggad featured newly commissioned and reimagined works from Fayçal Baghriche, Amina Menia, Atef Berredjem, Hanan Benammar, Massinissa Selmani, and Sadek Rahim.
This book co-published by the documents the 14th Sharjah Biennial, featuring contributions from over 30 artists to explore contemporary art's response to environmental, political, and technological shifts.
This catalogue accompanied the eleventh iteration of Sharjah Biennial. Re:Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography brought together artists, architects and musicians to reflect on themes of identity, migration, trade, cultural influence and synthesis.
This book accompanies Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving The Echo Chamber. This book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-) continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic bridges for a global history. This volume provides interpretative, discursive, poetic, political, and theoretical tools to compare and contrast modes of migration, production, extraction, and exploitation through a series of 30 newly commissioned context-specific works and critical texts.
The book was published on the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s new building, Subcontracted Nations was a group exhibition that questions differing concepts of nation.
The Time Is Out Of Joint is a multi-space project; this two-volume publication is one of its manifestations that adopt spatial and temporal strategies inspired by the idea of time as a fluid space and space as frozen time. Structured in four chapters: BAGHDAD, TBC, CHINA and EQUATOR. These chapters are concepts extended from the contexts of three events in an exhibition project that took place in Beirut, Sharjah and Gwangju.
Inspired by found objects, personal archives and poetic experiences, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige invent a unique way of to navigate between art and film. Their documentaries, fictional films, photography, art installations, texts and performances develop narratives and images around stories kept secret, acting as a resistance to official history.