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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 28.7 W x 39.4 H x 0.4 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This serie of work is a non-academic transcription of various kufic texts dating from the 6th to the 10th centuries. Texts from stelae or manuscripts are rendered completely meaningless. Or maybe they just seem like it.
Original Created:
2016
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Painting:
Acrylic on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
28.7 W x 39.4 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
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France.
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al atlal
France
Al atlal Having arrived through another trans-mediteranean flight in the scorching heat of greater Cairo / Al Atlal choosed to settle down near the place where the lost city of Ibn Tulun used to be / Browsing the concrete jungle of the nile valley / Harmony in chaos / Testing urban highway flyover / Traffic forever stands still in the streets of Heliopolis / Bored / Fucked off to the duat / He could feel the regular thud of the megalopolis while standing on the remains of the Abu Rawash temple / Ultra dry Marlboro disintegrating / Unmarked helicopters hovering / Everyone wanted air-con nightmare / The blueness of Arab Idol / He stared endlessly at the graphicness of Islamic stelaes / The vicinity of Al Qarafah / At the bottom of a cliff / Street dogs in the shadows / Heat unbearable / Thus inspired – Al Atlal flew home and worked. This serie of work is a non-academic transcription of various kufic texts dating from the 6th to the 10th centuries. Texts from stelae or manuscripts are rendered completely meaningless. Or maybe they just seem like it.
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