SoHyun Bae/ Fathi Hassan "Adorned/Unadorned"

Skoto Gallery

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Despite their varied experiences and personal cultural backgrounds SoHyun Bae(Korea/USA) and Fathi Hassan (Egypt/Italy), have over the years evolved into artists whose respective works are governed by sensibilities rather than theories along with a clarity of vision that respond to and signifies current expanded parameters of art-making and cultural identity.

SoHyun Bae’s recent work is highly structured and reveals the aesthetic struggle between form and concept. Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and material, combined with a sensitivity to texture and her remarkable ability to render figurative motifs perceptively and discerningly she creates work that suggest a close relationship to nature, to harmony and to growth thereby expanding the boundaries between art and consciousness.

History, geography and culture are mutable, imagined signs that Fathi Hassan often feels free to mix up and assign in his work in performance, installation, photography and painting. He explores the representational possibilities of language, inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy as core compositional elements. Although the texts in his work have no comprehensible meanings, it nevertheless serve as a specific link between image and writing whose aim is to give voice to Nubia’s lost oral tradition.

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from March 26, 2009 to May 02, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-03-26 from 18:00 to 20:00

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