07/01/2014

Bringing East and West: ART DUBAI 2014 - Insights


 Great news in the world of art:

Marker 2014

Stas Kharin, Poetic Entente or Occupation of the Heart, 2009, Courtesy of North Caucasus Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art

In 2014, Marker turns its focus to Central Asia and the Caucasus!!! 

Curated by the artists Slavs and Tatars, this themed series of exhibitions and educational initiatives includes gallery booth exhibitions, talks, research projects and commissioned artists’ projects. 
 
The five artspaces and organisations selected for Marker 2014 are: ArtEast (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); Asia Art (Almaty, Kazakhstan); North Caucasus Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art, NCCA (Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia); Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project (Tbilisi, Georgia); and YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Baku, Azerbaijian).

Slavs and Tatars are working with each space and their artists to present existing and new work that together forms a collective exhibition through a ‘regime of portraiture’, including faces, places and traces from mid-twentieth-century painting to contemporary drawings and sculptures.

At the fair, Marker will take the form of a chaikhaneh or Eurasian (tea) salon, to activate each work as a point of departure, to tell larger stories touching upon questions of faith, language, landscape; and importantly, how these notions are ritualised, interiorised, and hybridised beyond the often brittle politics of identity.
 
For more information on Marker 2014, download the latest press release from our Media Page here

ONESTAR PRESS COLLABORATION
2014 also marks a new collaboration between Marker and onestar press, the renowned Paris-based artist book publisher. onestar will publish books by emerging and established artists from Central Asia and the Caucasus invited by Slavs and Tatars including Reza HazareTaus Makhacheva and Armen Eloyan

MARKER EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Marker also features an extended education programme, which includes a research booth, daily talks and tours, and opportunities for upcoming curators to research and gain experience in this field. Marker’s education partner is Caspian Arts Foundation.
 

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is a collective with solo exhibitions at major museums—MoMA, Secession (2012), REDCAT (2013), Kunsthalle Zurich, Dallas Museum of Art (2014)—as well as group exhibitions across the Middle East, North America and Europe. They have published six books, including a translation of the legendary Azeri political satire Molla Nasreddin (2011, JRP-Ringier).

Slavs and Tatars are represented by The Third Line, Dubai; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; and Raster, Warsaw.

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Very much looking forward!

More soon.


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