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Exhibion of Ibrahim Bedi in Tocka
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On
13.10.2004. in 20. 00 Ibrahim Bedi would open his exhibition
"View towards the forgotten". The exhibition is part of the
Confluent Margins project of the NGO Kontrapunkt from
Skopje. |
Ibrahim Bedi is one
of the most important macedonian artist in the recent ten years. He
is born 1959 in
Skopje.
He has participated in many group exhibitions and has many solo
exhibitions also.
from Maja Cankulovska review....
View towards the Forgotten
 Ibrahim
Bedi's project "View towards the Forgotten" is made of two basic
parts: internal, gallery part and external, placed on the open
space. This kind of representation illustrates the two
characteristic discourses in his art.
Drawing,
object-drawing:
Drawings displayed into the gallery space, are continuation of a
cycle of intimate drawings, which started in 1996 ("Room of My Own",
SAM Gallery, 1996 and "My Diary", CAC Gallery, 2002), and represent
a kind of chronology of the most intimate details in his life. His
characteristic writing, consisted of symbols and signs (gates,
birds), with dominant light colors (especially blue), brings back to
life city's forgotten time: the Old Bazaar, the streets, the
neighborhood.
In this part, in a form of divided cycle he represents
objects-drawings which are dedicated to the great Islamic architect
Mimar Sinan. Simplified unusual forms of objects - parts of used
objects, are patinized with joyful graphic interventions.
Installation:
The process of its realization into the unused, forgotten and
marginalized space, starts with the melting stone, characteristic
element for Christian and Muslim houses from the past. Over this
element, that refer to the nostalgia towards the home - the
fireplace, the story is told trough subtle, yet complex combination
of elements treated in architectonical-sculptural manner. Created
from temporary materials (branches, nets), these objects reflect the
secrets of the space from Mimar Sinan's architecture and the
architecture from Capadocia. According to the author, the main idea
in his work stands opposite eternal, opposite the one that in the
eastern philosophy is named as "put perest" (one that believes in
the eternal).
Dialectic of the space (inside - outside, space - non-space)
and time (present - past, eternal - temporary) are present in
Ibrahim Bedi's works. Connection of these elements occurs trough one
hole - window, that subtle captures and directs viewer's look into
self-facing. Mirrors create illusion of deep directed towards
reflecting the marginal and questioning the truth.
The emphasis of the exhibition "View towards the Forgotten" is put
on the warmness and the intimacy of the past and memories, from
which emerges author's energy for creating his complex works.
Material that is used is natural, archetypical (wood, stone) and
with correlation to the mythical and ritual, opposite to urban. On
this way, using of simplest ready-made (carved, used) and natural
objects, the artist derives objects from forget ness of the reality
and gives them new mythical and artistic meaning.
Maja
Cankulovska |
