Etel Adnan — in Close Encounters with Paul Klee.

Review of the Etel Adnan Exhibition and Symposium Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, September 27th – 28th 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.6

Abstract

Review of the symposium "The Arab Apocalypse. Art, Abstraction & Activism in the Middle East" (27—28 September 2018) organized by Silvia Naef & Nadia Radwan, and the exhibition "Etel Adnan" (15 June—7 October 2018) by Americano-Lebanese artist Etel Adnan, curated by Sébastien Delot & Fabienne Eggelhöfer, both of which took place at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.

Author Biographies

Joan Grandjean, University of Geneva

Joan Grandjean is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva. His research focusses on science fiction in the Arab geocultural space contemporary art. Since the early 2000s, “Futurist“ aesthetics have created new imaginaries as tools for questioning, criticizing and telling new narratives about the history, cultural Arabness, political interests and conflicts of the Arab countries. After studying performing arts, visual arts and art history in Lyon, Utrecht and Rennes, he worked at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut as a research officer. Grandjean has been Silvia Naef’s assistant for the last two years and is a founding member of Manazir, Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA Region and Manazir Journal.

Mirl Redmann, University of Geneva

Mirl Redmann is a writer, art educator and PhD candidate at the University of Geneva. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on sociological aspects of globalisation in the context of international large-scale exhibitions. Which networks and discourses have brought artists labeled as coming from “Arab” countries to the documenta? How do these artists perceive of and deal with this label in the international art world/in the context of their participation in documenta? After studying Arabic languages and cultures, as well as the history of Islamic art in Leipzig, Leiden, Cairo, Berlin and Bonn she became a project researcher for the SNF-Sinergia project “Other Modernities” (2013- 2017). She worked as an art educator for documenta 14 and is currently based in Kassel from where she explores and mediates archives engaging in cultural and political debates.

Published
01.10.2019
How to Cite
Grandjean, J., & Redmann, M. (2019). Etel Adnan — in Close Encounters with Paul Klee.: Review of the Etel Adnan Exhibition and Symposium Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, September 27th – 28th 2018. Manazir Journal, 1, 68–76. https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.6
Issue
Vol. 1 (2019): The Arab Apocalypse. Art, Abstraction & Activism in the Middle East
Section
Articles

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