MEDUSA Series by Mai TABAKIAN - 2010

- See more about the artist :

http://www.maitabakian.com/categorie-11965335.html

- FAD’s Questions :

http://www.maitabakian.com/article-my-interview-with-fadwebsite-march-28th-2012-102427875.html

Emerging artist N°10 // Danish artist : Majken SCHULTZ

Built with known elements brought together in an unusual manner Majken Schultz’s landscapes and fragments of nature represent parallel realities. Realities in the way that they describe components of our lives namely time, thoughts, souvenirs. Parallel in that they are invisible and immaterial, yet perceptible for us, they are located on another level of consciousness than the one we register and observe by looking, listening and touching.
Luminous and beautiful with a form of naivety yet never banal these works seduce us in the same way as the web of a spider where the attraction is such that we end up trapped…obliged to reflect […]

More :

http://www.marialund.com/galerie/presse/schultz-en.html

http://www.slash.fr/en/artistes/majken-schultz/a-propos

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New Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Brussels :

“Human Condition” by Mai Tabakian (www.maitabakian.com) and Olivia Barisano (www.oliviabarisano.com)

april 20th > may 21th 2012

Vernissage : Friday april 20 th 2012 : 18h - 21h

Where ?

Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery
Phone : +32 (0)2 611 51 70
mh@mathildehatzenberger.eu
www.mathildehatzenberger.eu/wordpress/contact

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MH Gallery is proud to present its 4th exhibition: Human condition a unique project devised by 2 young newcomers onto the art scene, Olivia Barisano (BE) and Mai Tabakian (FR). Human condition explores the two sides of the same mountain with two different, though converging, eyes.

Both artists question the human condition through their specific personalities.

Olivia Barisano’s videos, installations and performances always focus on the body, committed, and even physically engaged, in an identity search placing her in the relative boundaries of her own life as well as in a more universal time frame. Obstinate repetitions of movements and habits, ancestral exercises or spatial contortions, all create links among mankind and, simultaneously, an unique piece of art. Olivia tries to disentangle the threads of transmission linking an adult woman to her childhood roots. Her confounding expression is a reflection of our own life story.

Mai Tabakian’s work is entitled « Common grounds or elective affinities» : 16 elements showed in frames without paintings, made from padded cotton wool fabric on extruded supports, a technique she customarily uses to create the feeling of an impossible palpation.
The presentation directly refers to Goethe’s novel « Elective affinities ». The visual concept is also a reminder of his « Theory of colours ». This installation is like a whirlwind of colours, upsetting not only the theories of colours but also,
allegorically, the theories of human matching. Both work converge in a natural way: they are free of all determinist theory that would reduce mankind to bodies and, on the contrary, remind us that life, in all its colours, is full mystery and magic.
Together they write the story of Man devising various strategies in order to escape a predetermined fate. They use the precision of textile and show the beauty in the
repetition of daily exercises to reach the essential and express a unique sense of universal poetry.

Visuals et full biographies available on request.

Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery
Hoogstraat 11 Rue Haute / 1000 BXL (Belgium)
00 32 (0)478 84 89 81 / www.mathildehatzenberger.eu

Emerging artist N°9 // american artist : Gaia

Born in 1988 in New York City, Gaia lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Baltimore, MD. In 2007, as a senior in High School, Gaia became interested in the growing global street art movement. Drawing influence from contemporary artists such as Swoon and Elbow-toe, he began to paste his artwork on the streets of his native New York. After experimenting locally, it was only a few years before he would expand his imagery to urban spaces in other U.S. cities as well as International locations. In May 2011, Gaia received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, with a concentration in printmaking and sculpture. With sophistication beyond his years, the promising young artist’s studio work has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. His street art has been documented, followed widely online and published in a number of recent publications including Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art.

The artist’s chosen pseudonym, Gaia, is a name taken from the primordial Greek goddess personifying the Earth, more universally referred to as Mother Earth or Mother Nature. While he has been known to create portraits of human faces, Gaia’s ambiguous imagery most often depicts totemic creatures with animal heads and human bodies as well as expressive hand gestures.

More : http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
http://irvinecontemporary.com/showArtist.php?artistID=197

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Billowing Beauty An Installation - By Anne Ferrer
With Carol Worthey -Curated by Edward Rubin

The Lab Gallery

Emerging artist N°8 // Tunisian artist : Ismaïl Bahri

Born in Tunis in 1978 of a Tunisian father and a Swiss mother, Ismaïl Bahri lives in Paris. After studying at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts, he left Tunisia for France where he got a Ph.D in Arts at the Sorbonne. Ismaïl Bahri’s works take various forms, going from drawing to video, from photography to installations. Each of his works explores processes and materials of his own but have in common their minimalism and strong graphic content. His research deals with epiphenomena where minute mutations are happening. Also, we can detect notions such as transience, the imperceptible and the vulnerable.
Ismaïl Bahri participated in exhibitions and international festivals such as the Bamako Encounters of Photography (Mali), Fotographia Europea (Italy), Videoformes, or Cinemed. Ismaïl Bahri’s work has been exhibited in the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Filles du calvaire gallery, the Johannesburg Art gallery (South africa), the Cape Town National gallery (South africa), the Centrale électrique (Brussels), the British Film Institute (London), and the Fondazione Mertz (Torino). Ismaïl Bahri is represented by Les Filles du calvaire gallery, Paris.

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Emerging artist N°7 // Japanese artist : Chiharu Shiota

Born in Osaka (Japan) un 1972. Chiharu Shiota lives and works in Berlin. She combines performance, body art and installations in a process that places the body at the centre of her sculptural work.

Chiharu Shiota is returning to Paris to exhibit at Galerie Daniel Templon during January 7 until February 18, 2012

Photo copyright: Chiharu Shiota : Aichi Triennale2010 - Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya） Japan

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“THE WALL ” New Installation by Mai Tabakian

January 2012