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ANISA ASHKAR
אניסה אשקר
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Israel
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1979
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Artist Press
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Mar 18, 2011
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Anisa Ashkar Power Point Slide Show
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Mar 11, 2009
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Anisa Ashkar's performance & installation, Mashkhara, 2009 at” Fresh Paint 2” Art Fair , Tel Aviv
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Anisa Ashkar's performance & installation, Mashkhara, 2009 at” Fresh Paint 2” Art Fair , Tel Aviv
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Fresh Paint Art Fair is happy to announce Anisa Ashkar's performance & installation, Mashkhara, 2009
Fresh Paint is a Contemporary Art Fair which will take place on March 18 – 21, 2009, in "Hatachana" (The Station) site in Tel Aviv. Professional and private previews for collectors, curators and museum directors, will be held on March 17th. The fair was launched in March 2008. Fresh Paint’s mission is to create a platform from which young, Israeli artists can emerge. Participating in the fair will be Israel’s leading contemporary art galleries and about seventy independent Israeli artists, selected by a professional panel. Fresh paint offers an educational program of lectures, panels, performances and encounters with Israeli art and artists, and includes a number of unique works, commissioned from independent artists of Fresh Paint 1. One of them is Anisa Ashkar's performance & installation, Mashkhara, 2009.
The performance will be staged twice:
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 7 p.m.
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 3 p.m. A talk with Anisa Ashkar at Fresh Paint Fair.
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 4 p.m. A conversation with Anisa Ashkar and curator Edna Moshenson at Fresh Paint Fair.
Participants: Anisa Ashkar, Gil Kerer
Curator: Edna Moshenson
Artistic adviser: Ron Kuner
Production: Anat Cederbaum
Duration: approx. 16 min
Mashkhara is supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, a philanthropic organization dedicated to supporting new art. The foundation focuses on bringing private funding from its supporters to public museums, galleries, and art projects. Addressing the need for flexible, early-stage funding within the public arena, Outset enables ambitious non-commercial ventures and acquisitions www.outset.org.uk
The location selected for Anisa Ashkar's performance-installation Mashkhara (2009) as part of the Fresh Paint art fair touches upon her biography, the point of departure for her fascinating work: the railroad tracks of the Turkish train station built in the late 19th century, on the blurred borderline between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, not far from Andromeda's Rock, named after one of the heroines of Greek mythology. The existence on a border connecting/separating places, histories, cultures, and identities, and the act of sailing away from current reality toward the mythological past in order to gain a perspective through which to examine the present have been at the core of Ashkar's work.
The eponymous 'mashkhara' is a charcoal making device using slow combustion, a traditional profession in Ashkar's family which is still practiced in some Arab villages and towns. Charcoal was the first material to spark Anisa's artistic imagination, and it plays a part in the current installation as well. From life opposite the Barbur ('Swan') factory for white porcelain products, which gave her native neighborhood on the outskirts of Acre its new Hebrew name, her imagination floated off to the realms of mythology, and the story of Leda's rape by Zeus in the figure of a swan. All these elements are reinforced in Mashkhara, 2009, debuting here.
Charcoal, chalk, white milk, and black milk are the materials and metaphors frequently employed by Ashkar in her performances. These usually consist of sculptural objects, canonical Arabic texts, presented in writing or audio, and Arabic calligraphy, as in the performances Barbur Aswad ('Black Swan'), 2003, Barbur 24000 (her home address and zip code). A trip to Greece after Greek mythology has spawned the piece In a Twinkle of an Eye (2007) addressing, through the story of Medusa, the relations between the sexes, a recurrent theme in her works.
Ashkar's ability to drift off from her tangled biography and intricate identity to the realms of mythological imagination transforms her work into pure, complex, moving art.
Anisa Ashkar's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Israel and the world over. She has recently participated in an exhibition of works from the Essl Collection in Vienna.
Anisa Ashkar was born in 1979.
Graduated in 2004 Hamidrasha school of Art.
For further information, please contact Nitzan Wolanski, Director of International Relations: nitzan@freshpaint.co.il
Please visit our website: http://www.freshpaint.co.il/EN/
Anisa Ashkar's performance & installation, Mashkhara, 2009 at” Fresh Paint 2” Art Fair , Tel Aviv
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May 16, 2008
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OVERLAPPING VOICES - Israeli and Palestinian Artists|16/05/08-26/10/08|ESSL MUSEUM,VIENNA
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OVERLAPPING VOICES - Israeli and Palestinian Artists|16/05/08-26/10/08|ESSL MUSEUM,VIENNA
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OVERLAPPING VOICES - Israeli and Palestinian Artists
16/05/2008 – 26/10/2008
Essl Museum, Exhibition Hall
Curators: Karin Schneider, Friedemann Derschmidt, Tal Adler, Amal Murkus
Accompanying Events: Parrhesia - action in public space / Vienna (from 11/05/2008)
Symposium with artists at the EsslMuseum (18/05/2008
This exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian artists offers a rare and interesting opportunity to discuss different artistic practices from a conflicted area.Both Israeli and Palestinian societies contain a vast range of people, cultures and positions with rich and intertwined histories. This exhibition tries to bring together some of these voices, which overlap and sometimes contradict the more common and clearer positions usually heard.
Some of the 22 art projects that include all artistic media are shown for the first time.
Many of them are based on civil society structures, as many of the artists in this show are themselves social and cultural activists. Four of the projects created for the exhibition are a result of artistic collaboration between some of the artists and civil society organizations, Israeli and Palestinian, who present interesting visions for understanding of the region and its challenges.
Artists
Tal Adler, Shalom Amira, Anisa Ashkar, Asad Azi, Raed Bawayah, Eyal Ben-Dov, Zoya Cherkassky und Avdey Ter-Oganian, Ronen Eidelman, Shula Keshet, Jumana Manna, Parrhesia, rites-institute, Yoav Weiss, Osama Zatar, Manar Zuabi, Masha Zusman
http://www.sammlung-essl.at/index_e.htm
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