Solo exhibition by Sharif Waked opens at Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Wednesday, November 13, 2024


Solo exhibition by Sharif Waked opens at Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv
Sharif Waked, Crop Marks, 2016. Floor installation, 2 boxes, glass, wood, offset printed poster and wheels, 35 × 75 × 20 cm / 71 × 75 × 20 cm.



TEL AVIV.- CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv opened “Balagan,” a solo exhibition by Sharif Waked (*1964, Nazareth; lives and works in Nazareth and Santa Barbara, California). “Balagan” means chaos, disarray, and confusion. The word is originally Persian – balachan [بالاخان‎] – and traveled across borders to other languages such as Russian, Yiddish, Lithuanian and Hebrew. Through sustained reflection on aesthetics and politics, Sharif Waked has consistently pierced the absurdities of reality with playful and estranged encounters between various temporalities, cultural-historical products, and political events.

Following the artist’s unique modus operandi, the exhibition features existing and recent pieces, linking different bodies of Waked’s work over time. In the floor installation Crop Marks (2016), Waked’s self-portrait in an orange suit, is subjected to the print-house’s ‘guillotine’, cut at his neck along the crop marks of printing and design conventions: fashion and design encounter the world of beheadings. If the video MoM – the Museum of Mosul (2017­) takes the footage of ISIS’s destructive actions and reproduces it as a promotional film for a now-rebranded museum, in Bath Time (2012), a donkey takes a good shower after a long day performing as a zebra at the Gaza Zoo.

In Contribute a Better Translation No. 1 (2011), an archive of slogans of the Palestinian struggle undergo mechanized translation, and at the same time, the military surveillance of the Israeli checkpoint converges with the haute couture of the catwalk in Chic Point (2003). Beace Brocess No. 5 (2012) refracts a clip from the Camp David II 2000 peace talks into the era of silent film, whereas the Oslo Agreements of the 1990s meet the tiled mosaics of the eighth century Umayyad Caliphate [الخلافة الأموية] in the series of works “Jericho First” (2002-ongoing).

In another series “Tughra” (2008-ongoing), Waked inserts Israeli soldiers’ most common directives in Hebrew-inflected Arabic into the sixteenth century calligraphic monogram (tughra [طغراء]) of Suleiman the Magnificent. The iconic work To Be Continued (2009) transforms the suicide bomber into the tenth century storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade [شهرزاد], who kept death at bay by feeding Shahryār’s narrative curiosity. Last but not least, in the video series “Just A Moment” (2011-ongoing), various interventions meet, interrupt, and disrupt iconic archival events.

“Balagan” is also the title of a work on display in the exhibition. It is part of the series “Arabesque” (2016-ongoing) and in it – along with the series “dot.txt” (2016-ongoing) – Waked disassembles the building blocks of images to reconstruct what appear as geometric abstract surfaces. In these series, Waked questions the division between the visual and the verbal, perception and deception, the visual traditions of the past and the digital manipulations of the present, to deliver in a rather formalistic fashion the questioning, breaking, and remaking of meaning. Following these premises, “Balagan” offers a bird’s eye view of Waked’s art, surveying his work as a comprehensive whole.

“Sharif Waked: Balagan” is curated by Nicola Trezzi, CCA Tel Aviv director and it is accompanied by a leaflet in three languages.










Today's News

February 19, 2020

Pompeii restoration unearths 'surprise' treasures

Here lies the skull of Pliny the Elder, maybe

'Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries' on view at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

LACMA opens the first exhibition in the United States to showcase the work of Luchita Hurtado

Exhibition brings together 200 works by American and Mexican artists

New galleries and star objects revealed for £13m transformation of V&A Museum of Childhood

British Museum's world-class collection of French prints to go on show for first time in 40 years

Harvard Art Museums present 'Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection'

Jim Morrison and The Doors star alongside Charlie Chaplin and a galaxy of Hollywood stars at Swann Auction Galleries

Morocco fortress village hopes to draw 'Game of Thrones' fans

Rare images from Shackleton's expedition offered at Bonhams Travel and Exploration sale

Morphy's Mar. 10-11 auction boasts fine toys, exquisite automata, comic character rarities

Pirelli HangarBicocca opens an exhibition of works by Trisha Baga

Monica Obniski appointed Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at High Museum of Art

BOZAR opens an exhibition of works by the artist duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys

100 years of African-American art based on storytelling on view at Kunsthal KAdE

bitforms gallery opens a collaborative exhibition by Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow

Puerto Rican poster archive leads sale at Swann

Bergen Assembly announces Ingrid Haug Erstad as new director

Swann Auction Galleries to offer catalogue of Diana letters

Solo exhibition by Sharif Waked opens at Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv

Summers Place Auctions' first auction of the decade opens with a mix of decorative pieces

Commissioned artists announced by Park Avenue Armory for 100 Years │ 100 Women Initiative

Lunds konsthall opens Sammy Baloji's 'Other Tales'

De Pont opens an exhibition by the Belgian artist Marijke De Roover

Casino Apps You Should Try on Your Android Device




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful