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A-WAL Public Art Project Q2 | Vers des lendemains qui chantent. | Curated by Tirdad Zolghadr
The A-WAL Public Art Project is an experimental initiative that situates art in the vernacular through the commissioning of curators and artists for special projects in technovernacular and non-traditional environments. Each quarter, a curator recognized for having achieved a unique distinction in an area of experimental practice will construct the Public Art Project around their own set theme. A-WAL Public Art Project Q2 is curated by Tirdad Zolghadr.
Tirdad Zolghadr works as a freelance curator, writes for Frieze Magazine and has also contributed to Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, Afterall, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Straits Times Singapore and other publications. Since 2004, Zolghadr has curated events at Cubitt London, IASPIS Stockholm, Kunsthalle Geneva, various Tehran artspaces and other venues. He was co-curator of the International Sharjah Biennial 2005, and is currently preparing a long-term exhibition and research project addressing social class in the art world that shall take place at Gasworks London, Platform Istanbul and Tensta Konsthall. Zolghadr is also a founding member of the Shahrzad art & design collective and will shortly publish his novel Softcore with Telegram Books, London.
Click here to view curator's writings for this edition
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Amirali Ghasemi
Born in Tehran in 1980.
Artist's Bio
www.amiralionly.com
Image from a Middle School textbook
in Qoranic Studies with a plastic cover and a silk screen print.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Richard Rhys
Born in South Wales, UK.
Lives and works in London and Iceland.
Artist's Bio
Distorted Rectangle Pattern, 2006
Digital rendering
The first pattern in a series of ongoing patterns dealing with distortion in
simple stripe patterns.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Fia Backström
Born in Stockholm.
Lives and works in New York.
Artist's Bio
Art Politiquement Engagé
Politische Engagiert Künst,
2007
Ink-Jet Printed Wallpaper
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Cassius Al Madhloum
Born in Palestine in 1967.
Lives and works in the south of Iran.
Behind Silent Curtains
(the Rosler series), 2004
Oil on canvas (29 cm x 42 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Cabaret Voltaire
Documentation of commissioned street art piece by the
dotmasters, on the facade of the Cabaret Voltaire.
www.cabaretvoltaire.ch
Image courtesy of Caberet Voltaire.
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"Vers des lendemains qui chantent." Translated from French by the curator as "towards a tomorrow that sings" - conveying a future-world romanticism.
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