Filed under: Eventful, Kuwait 50/20 Exhibition | Tags: 50/20, abdalla alawadi, aseel alyaqoub, Exhibition, gallery, george lewis, sultan, thomas modeen, william andersen
the gallery and farida's ubiquitous water bottles
I know I said the last time that I finally made it to the first installment of The Sultan Gallery’s 50/20 Exhibition. But this time I finally, finally made it. It’s been a week since the show opened. I like the whole idea of having two parts of a show, version one and version two. It appeals to my sense of applying different elements to a single diagram or model. Not a sequel but a segment which completes another.
*If you scroll down, you will see that there is an asterisk after Thomas Modeen’s work. I’m doing the asterisk thing kind of backwards. Please click here for better photos (and a thorough explanation) of his work.
Filed under: Eventful, Exhibitions, Kuwait 50/20 Exhibition, Sometimes I think I'm a photographer | Tags: 50/20, bassem mansour, Exhibition, farah behbehani, fatima al qadiri, Kuwait, monira al qadiri, Sultan Gallery
the gallery, a tree of life and the water which feeds it
I finally managed to make it to The Sultan Gallery this morning for a much-anticipated group show Exhibition 50/20. Most of the artists exhibiting here, when you put them in a room together, you’re going to get something like this: the ugly beautiful, the beautiful ugly, gender mish-mashes, political hodgepodge, religious under-, over- and in-between-tones, and in this instance a tantric tree of life. (more…)
