Raed Yassin
The Future is Nostalgic
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26 January – 4 March 2017
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries are pleased to present at their Athens space the solo show of the acclaimed Lebanese artist Raed Yassin. Titled ‘The Future is Nostagic’ the exhibition opens on Thursday, 26 January 2017, 19.00 – 21.00.
An artist and musician with participations at major exhibitions from Sharjah Biennale to Guggenheim Museum in New York, Raed Yassin has established a strong international profile. A distinct characteristic of his artistic practice is the multiplicity of media that Yassin employs: film, photography, fabrics, porcelain, neon and of course music. As a musician he was invited in 2016 to perform at the Borderline Festival at by the Onassis Cultural Center (Stegi) in Athens.
His third solo show in Athens continues Raed Yassin’s investigation into themes of personal and collective memory. He is using, in a highly imaginative and idiosyncratic way, popular culture and mass production vocabulary to translate and transmit socio-political critic. In this case the artist selects human desire as his central theme and offers a spicy and humorous analysis through a variety of media such as neon works (‘Manual for Disasters’, ‘The Future is Nostalgic’, ‘Crying Station’ ‘The End of the World’, ‘Conspiracy Theory’) and his new photographic series titled “Sex,Spies and the Suicide Dancer”.
Artists
Raed Yassin
Raed Yassin (b. 1979, Beirut, Lebanon) lives and works in Beirut. In 2015 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. He graduated from the Theatre Department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003.
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