Fahar Al-Salih
Subtitle: Jenseits von Märchen = beyond fairy tales
By: Herausgeber, Yvonne Hohner Contemporary ; Texte, Anabel Roque Rodríguez, Dr. Thomas Hirsch, Umar Abdul Nasser
Contributors: Gallerie Yvonne Hohner Contemporary (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Publisher: DCV, Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783969120446
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Jenseits von Märchen; Beyond fairy tales
Description: The protection and sense of belonging one feels where one is at home, and what it is like to lose both of them: these are central concerns in the art of Fahar Al-Salih (b. Belgrade, 1964; lives and works in Karlsruhe). Having grown up in Kuwait, where a classical education in visual art was inconceivable, Al-Salih came late to his me?tier; Markus Lu?pertz was among his teachers, and he completed his education in Hermann Nitsch?s master class. Seeing himself as a ?bridge-builder? between the cultures of the Arab world and Europe, Al-Salih probes the different lived realities in which his itinerant biography has been set. No more linear than his path through life, his oeuvre is defined by subjects to which he keeps returning in a kind of cyclical motion. This publication offers unprecedented insight into Al-Salih?s creative approach and his articulations of individual yearnings, the comforts of safety, and political and social upheavals. His work achieves a deft interweaving of global perspectives and migrant realities.00Exhibition: Yvonne Hohner Contemporary, Karlsruhe, Germany (11.09. - 18.11.2021).
Notes: Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the back.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Yvonne Hohner Contemporary Gallery, Karlsruhe, September 11 - October 31, 2021.