http://www.hamraabbas.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hamra Abbas: An Intimate Artist's Talk Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON Friday, March 19, 2010 – 7 pm http://www.hamraabbas.com/talk-rom-2/ Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA February 18, 2010 – June 27, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/beyond-the-page/ Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Pakistan to Open at Pacific Asia Museum http://www.hamraabbas.com/beyond-the-page_review/ EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED) San Francisco Art Institute, CA October 1, 2009 – January 30, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/love-yourself-sfai/ EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED) RedCat, Los Angeles, CA Guest curated by Hou Hanru November 22, 2009 – January 17, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/52/ Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan Asia Society Museum, New York, NY September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/132/ Hamra Abbas: Read Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Culture Until March 28, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/169/ ICC's Read Provides Another Response to the ROM's Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition http://www.hamraabbas.com/370/ Contradictions Remain Vital to Pakistan and Its Art by Randy Kennedy The New York Times, September 2, 2009 http://www.hamraabbas.com/ride-2-asia-society-ny/ Visiting Artist Lecture: Hamra Abbas Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.hamraabbas.com/389/ << click for more images Love Yourself (2009) is a continuation of the my Love Series. It is an installation of vibrating, toylike fighter jets, missiles, bombs, and bullets that, when switched on together with the neon works on the wall, create a vibrant installation of sound, movement, and light. ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/neuer-beitrag-1-fur-works/ Paradise Bath (2009) is a set of 9 photographs, and an outcome of a performance I did during my recent visit to Thessaloniki, Greece. I was immediately drawn to the first Ottoman bath-house built there in 1444. Known as Bey Hammam or Paradise Bath, it stands in the city ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/neuer-beitrag-2-fur-works/ Please do not step: Loss of a magnificent story (2009) is a site-specific work for Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In this work I use the method of storytelling (dastangoi) to tell a tale of loss and legacy, interlaced with elements of satire and humour. Borrowing from the idea of ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work-3/ In this is a sign for those who reflect (2009) is inspired by my attendances at meditation sessions in Pakistan. Also called zikr, these were primarily meditations of a Sufi tradition. The movement of the walls, synchronizing with the sounds of breathing, recorded at these sessions, can be read or ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work-25/ White is the New Black (2009) | Digital prints http://www.hamraabbas.com/work-24/ Buffalos in Combat (2008) directly references a 16th C Mughual miniature painting depicting a pair of buffalo with horns locked in battle. The subject matter of this painting was popular during the reign of Emperor Akbar (1556-1605), where artists took pride in depicting vibrant and naturalistic scenes of courtly sports. ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work-23/ Ride 2 (2008) is based on a mythical animal called Buraq, traditionally the Holy Prophet Mohammad’s ride that carried him from Mecca to Jerusalem and back on the event of Mi'raj in the 7th century. The image of Buraq has an iconic value in the popular culture of Pakistan, often ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work-22/ Woman in Black (2008), Abbas’ sculpture of a female super-heroine, hair streaming down her back, stands at two meters tall. Brandishing a stick, this proud, buxom figure plays on the iconic press images of burka clad women yielding sticks as weapons when Islamabad’s Red Mosque seminary was stormed in 2007 ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_woman-in-black/ It’s a Boy! (2008), translates the familiar figure of a plump baby boy from Woodward’s trademark gripe water bottle into the supra-real form of a gigantic action figure or parade float. Abbas returns us to a moment before we learned to differentiate high art from kitsch, and gods from comic ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_its-a-boy/ God Grows on Trees (2008) consists of 99 individual portraits of children and a diasec digital print. The portraits of the children were painted over a year and informed by my visits to Madrassahs (religious schools) in Pakistan. Viewing the current fascination with Madrassahs as being akin to the orientalist ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_god-grows-on-trees/