Nadim samman biography of abraham
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book (Sternberg Press, ) is a vivid documentation of TBA21’s commissioning practice and the ethos of the foundation, which involves working directly with artists on some of the most urgent topics of our time. This volume is an anthology of new texts, visual material, and research on TBA21’s commissions, woven together with explorations of the processes and relationships that enabled them. The publication was inspired by the labor, dialogue, and collaboration it took to produce these works over the past two decades, and what it means to be their guardian. The book’s innovative design was conceived by the world’s foremost book designer, Irma Boom. A selection of smell molecules from trees, forests, and earth are embedded into print sheets made of robust natural fibers, which are covering and bookending the publication. The smell was recorded, replicated, and recombined by artist Sissel Tolaas as a special comm
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In over 1, pages, The Commissions Book engages in depth with more than one-hundred works of art. The publication organizes and weaves tillsammans sequences of potential narratives and interrogations, along with close examinations of different works of art and an archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in the foundation’s work, and that of TBA21–Academy, an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans, are stories of making new connections across disciplines, geographies, and different forms of expertise. Committed to the sensibilities of artists-as-researchers, TBA21 has sided with artists in imagining new ways of knowing and intervening in the societies we live in and deploying new ways of encountering the world around us. The foundation’s work presents an attempt at reimagining what it means to “work together” as artists, commissioners, and public, and The Commissions Book seeks to rearticulate this praxi
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Art Invades North Korea
The Ethan Cohen Gallery is presenting Mina Cheon’s solo exhibition UMMA : MASS GAMES –
Motherly Love North Korea, curated by Nadim Samman, and sending art to North Korea.
The exhibition takes place during a time when there has been a war of words between North Korean and U.S. leaders. With this exhibition, Cheon establishes the personality cult of UMMA (‘mommy’ in Korean), whose maternal love is deployed as the only acceptable solution for global peace and Korean unification. Whereas South Korea’s modernity was pushed forward by
a chima baram (skirt wind), UMMA’s matriarchal strength is offered as a catalyst for developing
North Korea. In this exhibition, Cheon (in the guise of her alter ego Kilm Il Soon, the ‘Umma of
Unification’) sends motherly love and education to her children in the Hermit Kingdom and the USA.
In addition, she debuts artworks resulting from a series of dissident dreams.
For UMMA : MASS GAMES, Cheon has worked with underground ne