Wael Shawky
Subtitle: the crusades and current stories
By: redaktør: Maria Kappel Blegvad ; tekster: Erlend G. Høyersten, Wael Shawky, Maria Kappel Blegvad, Jørgen Bæk Simonsen & Anastasia Shanaah
Contributors: Aarhus kunstmuseum
Publisher: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: dan
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9788792184597
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Crusades and current stories; Wael Shawky.; Wael Shawky. English.
Description: The heart of the exhibition starring Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is his famous puppet film trilogy Cabaret Crusades, shown for the first time in Denmark. The exhibition also presents a rich selection of other works, including puppets featured in the films, vast wooden reliefs, drawings, photographs and collages ? and an entirely new, site specific work that takes the form of a 50-metre wall. The trilogy Cabaret Crusades relate the history of the medieval Crusades in the Middle East ? seen from an Arab point of view. Taking his point of departure in original historical sources and an innovative use of marionettes, Shawky re-enacts historic events from the distant past, focusing on the complicated relationship between the West and the Middle East. He depicts a past characterised by fierce conflict and violent clashes that continue to inform the relationship between the West and Middle East today, giving us a chance to see the Crusades and our own present day in a new light.00Exhibition: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark (19.05-09.09.2018).
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition: 'Wael Shawky - The Crusades and Current Stories' 19.05.-09.09.2018, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum" -- Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Danish and English.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Erlend G. Høyersten; title: The Crusades : past, present, and symbolic / Jørgen Bæk Simonsen; title: Interview / Maria Kappel Blegvad & Wael Shawky; title: Works; title: Film summaries; title: Characters; title: Biography; title: List of works.