Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna TOO EARLY TOO LATE. MIDDLE EAST AND MODERNITY 22 January – 12 April 2015 Produced by Arte Fiera Collecting Curated by Marco Scotini Via delle Belle Arti, 56 Bologna Italy artefiera.bolognafiere.it ARTEFIERA 2015 23 - 26 GENNAIO - JANUARY BOLOGNA ITALY international fair of modern and contemporary art artefiera.bolognafiere.it Showcasing 60 artists and more than 100 works from main Italian private collections, the project will be hosted at Bolognas Pinacoteca Nazionale in the area dedicated to temporary exhibitions, and in some of the museums display rooms from 22 January to 12 April 2015. Exhibition will extend into the museums prestigious 14th-century collections to the Late Gothic schools. This particular choice is designed to highlight Bolognas fame as a place of learning alongside Paris, Oxford, Avignon and Salamanca, the five cities where the Council of Vienne held in 1312 decided to establish chairs of Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, thus laying foreground to the Orientalism in the Christian west. Participating artists Lida Abdul, Mustafa Abu Ali, Bisan Abu Eisheh, Etel Adnan, Ayreen Anastas, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Can Altay, Omar Amiralay, Said Atabekov, Kutlug Ataman, Fikret Atay, Kader Attia, Vahap Avsar, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Gabriele Basilico, Neil Beloufa, CANAN, Céline Condorelli, Dina Danish, Cem Dinlenmiş, Peter Friedl, Rene Gabri, Sadhi Ghadirian, Yervant Gianikian-Angela Ricci Lucchi, Barbad Golshiri, Mona Hatoum, Malak Helmy, Emily Jacir, Khaled Jarrar, Lamia Joreige, Alimjan Jorobaev, Hiwa K., Hassan Khan, Abbas Kiarostami, Taus Makhacheva, Mona Marzouk, Ahmed Mater, Sabah Naim, Moataz Nasr, Navid Nuur, Walid Raad, Koka Ramishvili, Hany Rashed, Mario Rizzi, Ahmed Sabry, Roy Samaha, Hrair Sarkissian, Ariel Schlesinger, Hassan Sharif, Wael Shawky, Ahlam Shibli, Eyal Sivan, Jean Marie Straub-Danièle Huillet, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Lawrence Weiner, Mohanad Yaqubi, Amir Yatziv, Akram Zaatari Too early, too late is a reconstruction of the West meeting the Islamic world. Although the main focus of the project is the contemporary artistic scene, the exhibition starts from 1798 when Bonaparte and his army landed in Egypt. Original documents and archive material alternate with art installations, photographs and films to mark key cultural and politico-social events in the progressive westernization of the East—from the introduction of the nation-state to the spectacular museums created in the Arab Emirates. In fact, the expression Middle East is a terminology invented by the British at the beginning of the 20th century to designate the territories that extended from the Ottoman Empire (the Near East) to the Indian Empire. Since then, the geo-political expression has continued to exist more substantially as a subject of discourse (theoretical object) than as a geographic area that opens to the east of the Mediterranean. In Too Early Too Late, this acceptation is taken as representing an area that also extends to North Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The exhibition title Too early, too late is taken from the 1981 film on Egypt directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet Trop tôt/Trop tard. A masterpiece in the history of cinema, divided between rural landscapes in Brittany and Egypt, the film focuses on the peasant revolts in France in 1789 and in Egypt in 1952.
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