Wael Shawky
Subtitle: Cabaret Crusades - drawings
By: [Herausgeber, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Thomas D. Trummer ; Übersetzungen, Mohammed Abdallah [and three others]]
Contributors: Kunsthaus Bregenz
Publisher: Kunsthaus Bregenz; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, distributor
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bregenz; Köln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9783960980469
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Cabaret Crusades
Description: The discussion around foreignness and otherness is currently heated. Debate is shaped by waves of refugees from the Middle East, and humanitarian catastrophes in the Mediterranean and along the smuggler routes. Islamic terror attacks take place in Europe. At the heart of the discourse is the contact and differences between cultures, East and West, not least the claims to supremacy of religions and legal systems. Art cannot solve problems, but it can open perspectives that shed another light on these existential questions. The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky tells the story of the crusades, based on a book by the French-Libyan author Amin Maalouf, portrayed from the perspective of Arabian sources. Shawky became famous over night with the first part, "The Horror Show File" (2010). The settings are Damascus, Mosul, Jerusalem and Aleppo-once again the trouble spots of today.00Exhibition: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (16.07.-23.10.2016).
Notes: On the occasion of the exhibition "Wael Shawky" held at Kunsthaus Bregenz, July 16 - October 23, 2016.

No title page.

The book is arranged as pop-up picture book in a horizontal way.

Parallel texts in German, English, and Arabic.