Dar Al Funoon cordially invites you to
Anmatt 2 - The Clash of the Icons works by Abdulla Al Awadi
Opening at 7pm on Sunday 3rd June and continuing through to Thursday 21st June, 2012.
The
dialogue continues between poetry, story, geometry, society,
iconography and color in the work of Abdulla Al Awadi. Although in this
collection the whole concept of icon has been challenged. What
characterizes an icon? What gives it its significance? Is it size, color, meaning, myth or purely personal association?
In
various artworks there may be more than one icon competing for visual
supremacy although in most cases the battle is clearly won by the
stronger icon. In some cases, the line that divides the icon from other
objects is blurred or even, for emphasis, highlighted.
Al Awadi is a trained architect and currently teaches in the Department of Architecture in Kuwait University. He
also designs contemporary clothes, theatrical costumes, jewelry,
accessories, indoor and outdoor installations and plastic art.
He is also a photographer, a makeup artist, an art director, a choreographer and a lover of poetry. This is the second collection of Abdulla Al Awadi that shows here at Dar al Funoon about the subject of patterns: behavioral, cultural, or geometrical. Come and enjoy this clash of the icons.
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Posted: 30 May 2012 02:52 AM PDT
Opening at 7pm on Sunday 3rd June. The dialogue continues between poetry, story, geometry, society, iconography and color in the... 
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