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SOLO
EXHBITION AT VALENTINA BONOMO ARTECONTEMPORANEA
IN ROME: "MINIPHILIA"
Opening October 3-6, 2006
Miniphilia opens October 3rd at the Valentina Bonomo Artecontemporanea,
located at Via Del Portico D'Ottavia 13, 00186 Roma, Italia.
galleriabonomo.com
Miniphilia
Invite image:
Landscape Composite, 2006. Work on paper.
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THE
QUIET IN THE LAND: Art and Education
Organized in collaboration with the Department of Information
and
Culture, Luang Prabang, Laos. October 6 - October 11,
2006
PRESS
RELEASE
THE QUIET IN THE LAND art and education project
invited between 2004
and 2006 more than 40 artists and scholars from the Lao PDR,
the
Mekong Region, and elsewhere to visit Luang Prabang, Laos
and
collaborate with a wide range of local community members.
From October 6 to October 11, 2006 THE QUIET IN THE LAND is
organizing
in Luang Prabang a reunion/symposium with many of its participants
(artists, scholars, educators) who came to Luang Prabang,
Laos as part
of our residency program.
We have also invited many of our supporters to attend this
private
event. The goal of the reunion is to discuss the artists'
projects and
collaborations with the communities of Luang Prabang, as well
as our
work in the fields of education. We also wish to discuss Phase
2 of
our project that would take place from 2007 to 2010.
Landing
in Laos, Photograph taken by Shahzia.
The program of these five days will consist of a seminar,
openings of
the exhibitions, meetings, discussions, celebrations and visits
of the
24 monasteries as part of Boun Ok Pansa, The Quiet in the
Land has
been collaborating and supporting, for the past few years,
the 24
monasteries of UNESCO's World Heritage Site Protected Area
to
encourage the creativity around this typical Luang Prabang
festival.
We wanted our Reunion/Symposium to coincide with this very
special
event. During the rainy season, which lasts about three
months, the
monks traditionally remain in their monasteries. At
the end of this
period of retreat, Luang Prabang celebrates a Festival of
Light (Boun
Ok Pansa) where all the monasteries and houses in the city
are lit
throughout one night with lanterns made of bamboo and paper.
In the
previous days, monks and novices, families and other groups
of lay
people, start making decorations, bamboo boats and rafts of
different
sizes. After a ceremony of blessings at Vat Xieng Thong,
the
fireboats float downstream.
Many of the exhibitions will take place at the LUANG PRABANG
NATIONAL
MUSEUM (former Royal Palace) in the newly restored temporary
exhibition rooms around the courtyard, as well as in The House
of
Guards (behind the museum), from October 7 to March 7, 2006.
The official opening ceremony at the Museum will be on October
7, 2006
at 2 PM. Projects by artists Hans Georg Berger,
Ann Hamilton, Allan
Sekula, Shahzia Sikander, Dinh Q Le and Nithakhong Somsanith,
Janine
Antoni, Vong Phaophanit, and Rirkrit Tiravanija will
be presented.
The film project of Shirin Neshat will continue
during our second
phase as well as the project of Marina Abramovic
The film of Jun
Nguyen-Hatsushiba will be presented in Luang Prabang
in January 2007,
and the artist Cai Guo-Qiang will be in residency
at Vat Pou Khouay
Monastery in October 2006 after the reunion.
For more information, please contact THE QUIET IN
THE LAND project at
fmorin5627@aol.com
or call the Project House in Luang Prabang at
+ 856 71 212 849.
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RECENT SHOW JUST CLOSED AT THE FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM
PROJECT. PHILADELPHIA, PA
17
April - 17 June 2006
Layers of illustrative and abstract imagery coat the surfaces
of The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) Artist-in-Residence
Shahzia Sikander's work whether on paper, paintings or digital
animation.
click
here to read more.
For
a comprehensive description and more information on the
exhibition
and Artist-in-Residence Program, visit fabricworkshop.org
Shahzia
Sikander, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
The Illustrated Page Series #1, 2005-6.
Work on paper (gouache hand painting, gold leaf, and silkscreen
pigment).
80x66 inches (framed).
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EARLIER
THIS YEAR:
SHAHZIA SIKANDER HAS BEEN DESIGNATED
A YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER IN 2006
(World Economic Forum Affiliate)
Shahzia Sikander
joins 175 leading executives, public figures and
intellectuals under the age of 40 from 50 countries who
have been
selected to collectively shape the future.
Geneva, Switzerland 9 January 2006 –The Forum of Young
Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum,
proudly announces today that Shahzia Sikander, Artist, has
been named a Young Global Leader 2006. She is one of 2 Pakistanis
chosen to become Young Global Leaders in 2006 and will join
a global community now including 410 leaders from all regions
and stakeholder groups.
Established in 2004 by Professor Klaus Schwab, Executive
Chairman of the World Economic Forum, the Forum of Young
Global Leaders is a unique, multi-stakeholder community
of the world's most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years
old or younger and who are ready to dedicate a part of their
time and energy to jointly work towards a better future.
They engage together in the 2020 Initiative, a comprehensive
endeavour, to understand current and future trends, risks
and opportunities both at global and regional levels, formulate
a positive vision for the world in 2020 and put forward
concrete strategies to translate their vision into action.
Each year a new class of around 200 YGLs is selected for
a five year membership, ultimately forming a community of
1,111 by 2009. The 2006 class was chosen from among 3,500
candidates by the Forum of Young Global Leaders' Nomination
Committee, featuring 28 international media leaders, including
Carl-Johan Bonnier of Bonnier AB in Sweden, Arthur Sulzberger,
the publisher of the New York Times, Tom Glocer, chief executive
of Reuters and Rui Chenggang, Director and Anchor of China
Central Television in the People's Republic of China.
The Committee
is chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan.
The 2006 class of Young Global Leaders includes over 60
business leaders, more than 30 government leaders, and dozens
of scholars, media and nongovernmental organization leaders.
They come from 50 countries ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe.
Shahzia Sikander joins a community representing 90 countries
that includes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of
Google; Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia;
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer,
Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; Daniela
Mercury, Singer, Brazil and Michelle Guthrie, Chief Executive
Officer, Star Group.
During their first meeting in Zermatt, Switzerland and throughout
2005 Young Global Leaders formed task forces addressing
priority global challenges for 2020 in the areas of development
and poverty, global governance and security, environment,
education, and health. In addition, a delegation of Young
Global Leaders visited the
earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan in December 2005 as
a first
effort in supporting disaster relief and long-term reconstruction.
The Young Global Leaders will meet as a community at their
Annual Summit in Vancouver, Canada,
9-12 June 2006, when they will engage together in the 2020
Initiative,
a comprehensive endeavour, to understand current and future
trends, risks and opportunities at both the global and regional
levels, formulate a positive vision for the world in 2020
and put forward concrete strategies to translate their vision
into action.
For more information and a detailed list of all Young Global
Leaders, please visit www.younggloballeaders.org
as of 9 January 00.01 CET. The Forum of Young Global Leaders
is an independent, Geneva, Switzerland-based foundation
whose mission is to build a unique, multi-stakeholder community
of the world's most extraordinary leaders under the age
of 40 and give them a platform to collaborate and shape
best practices for the future of the world. Each year we
identify and
mobilize a new group of 200 exceptional men and women in
business, politics, academia, the media and civil society
from every region in the world. Together, they form a powerful
international force for the global common good.
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SIKANDER AT THE FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM
PHILADELPHIA, PA
17
April - 17 June 2006
Layers of illustrative and abstract imagery coat
the surfaces of The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) Artist-in-Residence
Shahzia Sikander's work whether on paper, paintings or digital
animation. Embedded in each layer are open-ended narratives
that reveal multi-faceted and constantly morphing relationships.
Sikander appropriates imagery from her own visual vocabulary
and universal modern motifs, further abstracting symbols from
her previous works. Constantly beguiling the viewer from making
literal interpretations, Sikander creates an emotional and visceral
experience. Raised as a Muslim in Lahore, Pakistan, she explores
the thresholds of Hindu and Muslim culture often combining tropes
and iconography from both. Through the addition of modern and
non-traditional elements to the manuscript artform, Sikander
forces the viewer to reconcile conflicting sensibilities hidden
within beautifully rendered landscapes.
Pre-defined icons become open-ended narratives as Sikander abstracts
and removes context from the imagery in her work. Cross-cultural
images—such as sports equipment, animals, landscape and
pattern—incongruously co-exist alongside traditional Southeast
Asian motifs organized in swirling and tumbling compositions.
Men's faces float around the boarder of the 'text' as mountains
of land grow in place of their wind-swept headdresses. Identity
is presented as "fluid and unfixed," and oppositions
such as "west/east, white/black, white/brown, modern/tradition,
presence/absence, beginning/end, and conscious/unconscious"
are questioned in an ongoing dialog with tradition. Sikander's
visual vocabulary re-introduces disparate deep-rooted allegories
and illustrates them as an abstracted, shared, indeterminate
and simultaneously dissolving and evolving story.
According to the artist, the result of her residency and collaboration
with FWM is "a successful marriage of two materials"
that had previously been independent in her work, and an important
exploration of scale. Inspired by traditional manuscript form,
the centerpiece for the exhibition measuring approximately 80
x 60 inches (framed) consists of two elaborately embellished
prints. Adorned with gold leaf and gouache hand painting over
silkscreened pigment, The Illustrated Page Series #1 (2005-6)
is the first of three unique works on paper in the same named
series made in collaboration with FWM. Both 'pages' display
intricate landscape imagery and large surfaces of color and
pattern. By utilizing the process of silkscreen printing in
conjunction with gouache hand painting, Sikander magnified the
imagery and vocabulary of the work for which she is well known.
For more information, please visit
fabricworkshop.org
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