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245		0	_aArchaic- Pavilion of Iraq The Pavilion of Iraq _b: 57th International Art Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia 2017 _c/ Curators: Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo
260			_aMilan; _bMousse Publishing; Ruya Foundation _c2017
300			_a138p; _c29x23cm
490			_aLa Biennale di Venezia _v#57
520			_aThe catalogue of the Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale, this book presents eight Iraqi artists of different generations—Sherko Abbas, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Ali Arkady, Luay Fadhil, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Nadine Hattom, Jewad Selim, and Sakar Sleman—together with work made by Francis Alÿs when he was embedded with a battalion of Peshmerga near Mosul, and a stunning collection of artefacts from the Iraq Museum of Baghdad. For the majority of Iraqi artists, the past has become the only present, the only defence against change, because however painful such a present may be, change is perceived as even more painful. In today’s Iraq, the structures that are part of civil societies at peace elsewhere in the world, which offer easier access to culture, to arts and letters, are mosty absent. A barren landscape ensued in 2015, with the brutal attack by ISIS, the flow of refugees, and a struggling state trying to cope with the catastrophes taking place. Many artists numbered among those refugees desperate for a life elsewhere. Yet, it's become increasingly clear that the fil conducteur throughout this story is in fact the archaic. Tellingly, archaic is also the Western view of the other, of a war-torn land that is easier to view as such than anything else. Archaic is the approach of the visual arts, the overwhelming rich heritage of the past with the overbearing paucity of the present. All the work featured in this book draws out the tension in the term archaic, to emphasise its particular relevance to Iraq, a country where the existing political, administrative, social and economic reality is arguably as “archaic” as its ancient heritage.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aN4390-5098 Visual Arts- Exhibitions _92
650			_aPavilion catalog _93659
651			_aIraq
700			_aAbbas, Sherko _93660
700			_aAl Said, Shakir Hassan _93661
700			_aAlfraji, Sadik Kwaish _93662
700			_aAlys, Francis _93663
700			_aArkady, Ali _93664
700			_aColombo, Paolo _93665
700			_aChalabi, Tamara _93666
700			_aCook, Roger _93667
700			_aBahrani, Zainab _93668
700			_aSzylak, Aneta _93669
700			_aPorter, Venetia _91863
700			_aKashi, Ed _93670
700			_aChahine, Joumane _93671
700			_aWarren, Rosanna _93672
700			_aKamal ad Deen, Kamal _93673
700			_aShabout, Nada _91864
700			_aApplebee, Andrea _93674
700			_aStorr, Robert _93675
700			_aMinioudaki, Kalliopi _93676
700			_aFadhil, Luay _93677
700			_aHattom, Nadine _93678
700			_aSelim, Jewad _93679
700			_aSleman, Sakar _93680
710			_aRuya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq _93681
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