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Item Number: 136102
Title: The Great Game. Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdish Region, Central-Asian Republics. Art, Artists and Culture From the Heart of the World
Author: Meneguzzo, Marco (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788836631360
Description: Milano: Silvana, 2015. 28cm., pbk,. 272pp., 150 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Italian-English text. Summary: The idea of this exhibition comes from the consideration that the geographical area of these Countries is, in fact, a historically unique territory, its destiny indissolubly linked by its historical and cultural situation: around these places there took place, and still takes place, what since the XIX century has been known as "The Great Game" for supremacy in Asia. A tangle of political, economic, religious, and social situations also finds an expression and interpretation in the art produced in these places, and it is this that the exhibition proposed for la Biennale Arte 2015 hopes to show through the work of some forty artists working in the region and who are particularly aware of socialpolitical questions. The exhibition demonstrates the centrality of this question and how it is perceived and reestablished by an international public through the language of contemporary art; it has already been expressed in major international shows, but it is still hampered by the genuine existential difficulties of those who have firsthand experience of a tangle of contradictions: a precise mirrorimage of what could be the linguistic outcome of globalization. So this is not an overview of the art of these countries which by now, at least for some of them, is well known but is a genuine conceptual "thrust" into one of the places that is an everyday and superficially considered protagonist of the media. The show's chosen theme obviously implies that these works have been chosen from among those that most meaningfully approach the problems under analysis: for this reason we have undertaken a great deal of prior research even in loco about the availability of works that are indispensable for the subject of the exhibition, while also privileging, however, the metaphoric aspect of the complexity of the culture and the forces in play (as a result, among the artists are those who could superficially be defined as "abstract", and the "handwriting" element of these cultures has also been considered as being of fundamental importance). (56. Biennale d'Arte di Venezia)
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