245 research outputs found
Rencontre avec Céline Burnand, artiste, et Nadia Radwan, historienne de l’art - Photoforum Pasquart
No full textA l’occasion de l’exposition Retour à Helwan – La Maison des vivants, le Photoforum Pasquart organise une rencontre entre Céline Burnand, artiste suisse basée au Caire et Nadia Radwan, professeure assistante en histoire mondiale de l’art à l’Université de Berne, spécialisée dans l’art moderne et contemporain du Moyen-Orient. La visite de l’exposition en présence de l’artiste sera suivie d’une discussion centrée sur les thèmes de la nostalgie, de l’appartenance et de la mémoire qui naviguent entre recherche scientifique et émotion. Dans quelle mesure la nostalgie et l’appartenance sont-elles liées à la subjectivité des artistes ou des chercheurs·euse? Quels publics sont touchés par ces notions? L'espace d'exposition ou les expériences vécues par le public modifie-t-ils leur sens? L’artiste et l’historienne de l’art offrent un regard croisé sur ces notions qui concerne leur recherches et pratiques respectives et qui sont aujourd’hui au cœur des discours sur l’art contemporain
Les Modernes d'Egypte: Une Renaissance transnationale des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Appliqués
No full textDans cet ouvrage, Nadia Radwan explore un moment clef du développement de l’art moderne égyptien lorsque sont définis les fondements d’une nouvelle pratique artistique au début du 20ème siècle. Basé sur un important travail de terrain en Egypte et sur des documents d’archives jusqu’ici inexplorés, cette étude se centre sur une génération de peintres et de sculpteurs appelés les pionniers (al-ruwwad). Formés dans des institutions, telles que l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts du Caire, leur production s’inscrit dans un mouvement de renaissance artistique et reflète les multiples interactions transculturelles entre l’Egypte et l’Europe. Cette publication offre ainsi un regard nouveau sur ces artistes qui ont posé les jalons du modernisme égyptien et met en lumière une production jusqu’ici peu étudiée. Tandis que l’on aborde aujourd’hui l’histoire de l’art dans une perspective globale à la lumière de circulations, d’échanges et de réseaux, cette étude offre un point d’ancrage qui permet de mieux appréhender les dynamiques et les enjeux actuels de l’art contemporain au Moyen-Orient.
In this book, Nadia Radwan explores a key moment of the development of modern Egyptian art, when the foundations of a new artistic practice are defined in the early 20th century. Based on field work and unexplored archival material, this work focuses on a generation of painters and sculptors commonly referred to as the pioneers (al-ruwwad). Trained in institutions, such as the School of Fine Arts in Cairo, their production is inscribed in a project of artistic renaissance and reflects multiple transcultural interactions between Egypt and Europe. This publication thus re-evaluates these artists that opened the path to Egyptian modernism and sheds light their yet understudied production. While art history is now approached in the perspective of circulations, exchange and networks, this book offers a background to a better comprehend the dynamics and stakes of contemporary art in the Middle East
Manazir Journal
No full textManazir Journal is a peer-reviewed academic Platinum Open Access journal dedicated to visual arts, architecture and cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Every issue focuses on a specific theme defined and proposed by a guest editor responsible for the issue and its follow-up. Manazir Journal accepts proposals for issues published in English, French, German and Italian and is also open to languages of the MENA region, such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
The journal is linked to Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA, a platform of exchange that aims to connect researchers interested in these themes in Switzerland. The term “Manazir” refers to landscape, perspective and point of view in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian. Thus, Manazir Journal is oriented toward a diversity of transcultural and transdisciplinary “landscapes” and “points of views” and open to a multiplicity of themes, epochs and geographical areas
L’art du diorama (1700-2000)
No full textTwenty years ago, Publics & Musées dedicated an issue to dioramas. This device, which has since been updated in various forms, particularly in contemporary art, is the subject of a new contribution. This reappraisal problematizes characteristic aspects of the dioramas, such as their narrative power, their hyperrealistic lure, as well as their specific relationship to reality and knowledge. The aim is to refocus the diorama on a study of museum institutions, from production to reception, with an emphasis on their materiality and some of their extreme forms
Nostalgia and Belonging in Art and Architecture from the MENA Region: Essay Collection
No full textIntroduction to a collection of twelve short essays that investigate how nostalgia and belonging come into play in the study of modern and contemporary art and architecture from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Each essay focuses on one selected object—a work of art or architecture—and reflects on its relation to the overall theme
“Imagined Bodies in Egyptian Modern Art”
No full textThis paper proposes to address the various ways by which the Egyptian modern artists investigated the nude as a genre in its aesthetic form and meaning at the beginning of the 20th century. The nude genre was indeed instrumental to engage with modernism and nudes conveyed the ideals of the nahda renaissance project. Feminine nudes as gendered allegories of the nation would also prove effective in the construct of national imagery. This paper will thus address the translation the nude as a genre as well as a historical narrative into bodies that acted as metaphors of nationalist claims. Besides, it will underline the value of the nude as a desired object that could be copied or acquired in order to reflect the social belonging to a universal culture. Finally, it attempts to address the question of the reception of nudes by its viewers, including the individuals that were the main subject of the artworks; Egyptian women
The Aesthetics of Exile
No full textRoundtable with Aissa Deebi, Beral Madra, Aymon Kreil and Alain Bitta
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