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Hosting workshops, lectures and panel discussions in two exhibition halls, the gallery
showcases paintings, sculptures, and contemporary installations by artists from
the region, and seeks the support of a beneficent foundation to offer support and
increase the visibility and depth of opportunities that can be made both for the artists in the Gulf, as well as collaborative projects with artists from Palestine, Cairo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich and more.
Established in 1998 with the primary objective to celebrate a diverse talent prevalent in Bahrain’s visual arts scene, Albareh Gallery has become a center for dynamic visual expression throughout the Kingdom and further a field. Over the past decade Albareh Art Gallery has built a formidable platform of artists, both established and emerging, encouraging a variety of fresh perspectives from the region. Driven by a body of local artists who have established themselves in the realm of painting, there are a great number of artists seeking to develop their interests in new media, film and installation and do not have the means to progress in their locales.
Hosting workshops, lectures and panel discussions in two exhibition halls, the gallery
showcases paintings, sculptures, and contemporary installations by artists from
the region, and seeks the support of a beneficent foundation to offer support and
increase the visibility and depth of opportunities that can be made both for the artists in the Gulf, as well as collaborative projects with artists from Palestine, Cairo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich and more.
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February 2011
Bita Ghezelayagh
Solo Exhibition
Albareh Art
Gallery - Bahrain
until 7 February
Solo Exhibition
Albareh Art
Gallery - Bahrain
until 7 February
BITA GHEZELAYAGH’S exhibition features a collection of felt costumes, made for display only, which combine talismanic symbols, silk screen printing and embroidery.
Previously an architect and art director of several Iranian films, Ghezelayagh started working with felt in 2004. She feels that it embodies qualities such as simplicity, heft and resilience, which she notices are often disregarded in Iran’s march to modernity.
“Making my first designs, and travelling around Iran searching for the best techniques, I came across a display of felt shepherds’ capes in a provincial bazaar. They hung inertly, heavily, a reminder of earthy tradition amid the gaudy consumer goods, and were a poignant validation of Joseph Beuys’ elevation of felt into art.”
Ghezelayagh began designing her own display tunics and capes as felt canvasses on which to express her memories of growing up in Iran. She was born in Italy in 1966, and brought up in Tehran where she lived through the revolution of 1979 and the war.
Like the well-known Iranian artists from the Saqqaqaneh movement of Iranian Pop Art in the 1950s, such as Hossein Zenderoudi and Parviz Tanavoli, Bita Ghezelayagh has sought a new visual language that embraces tradition and modernity through a unique combination of ancient signs, symbols and calligraphy with conceptual art.
Her works are in major collections including the British Museum.
Previously an architect and art director of several Iranian films, Ghezelayagh started working with felt in 2004. She feels that it embodies qualities such as simplicity, heft and resilience, which she notices are often disregarded in Iran’s march to modernity.
“Making my first designs, and travelling around Iran searching for the best techniques, I came across a display of felt shepherds’ capes in a provincial bazaar. They hung inertly, heavily, a reminder of earthy tradition amid the gaudy consumer goods, and were a poignant validation of Joseph Beuys’ elevation of felt into art.”
Ghezelayagh began designing her own display tunics and capes as felt canvasses on which to express her memories of growing up in Iran. She was born in Italy in 1966, and brought up in Tehran where she lived through the revolution of 1979 and the war.
Like the well-known Iranian artists from the Saqqaqaneh movement of Iranian Pop Art in the 1950s, such as Hossein Zenderoudi and Parviz Tanavoli, Bita Ghezelayagh has sought a new visual language that embraces tradition and modernity through a unique combination of ancient signs, symbols and calligraphy with conceptual art.
Her works are in major collections including the British Museum.
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