BOOTH: F23
Sabrina Amrani is delighted to announce the gallery's participation in Taipei Dangdai 2020 presenting museum-quality works by Manal AlDowayan, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Chant Avedissian, Alexandra Karakashian, Waqas Khan, Jong Oh and Dagoberto Rodríguez at the Galleries sector, and by Timothy Hyunsoo Lee at the Salon sector of the fair. The works can be previewed in our new Online Viewing Room.
The presentation at the booth begins with Manal AlDowayan, a Saudi artist whose artistic practice revolves around themes of active forgetting, archives, and collective memory, with a large focus on the state of women and their representation. Embracing diverse media, Manal AlDowayan's work encompasses black and white photography, sculpture, video, sound, neon and large-scale participatory installations. For Taipei Dangdai the gallery will present a work from her most iconic series "Suspended Together", a sculpture in porcelain of a standing dove stamped with the travel permit issued by male relatives that allows Saudi women to travel.
The presentation continues with the work "Les Vestiges de L'Extase", a colorful textile piece by Joël Andrianomearisoa, who represented Madagascar at the first-ever pavilion of the country at La Biennale di Venezia this year. The artist's work develops around a non-explicit, often abstract, narration, which everyone perceives yet, cannot put a name to. His world of forms weaves his work into sequences deeply mired in the concepts of sentimentality, feelings and memory.
Sabrina Amrani is bringing to Taipei for this presentation, the last-executed works of the late artist Chant Avedissian, which were a highlight of Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 with his paintings on cardboard and wooden wall-sculptures. His process of decomposition of the image and reconstruction with stencils in his works in wood, textile or gouache on corrugated cardboard, is an iconographic archive and builds a propaganda of a "Grand Orient": from the Maghreb to the plateaus of Western China. They are a formal and conceptual metaphor for the construction and permanent mutation of civilizations. His work is read as an affirmation of his own Egyptian identity, as well as of an universal collective heritage beyond any frontier: an Eastern identity against the idea of Western primacy.
The gallery will showcase works by South-African emerging artist Alexandra Karakashian for the first time in Asia at Taipei Dangdai. Her work stems from her family history and reflects on current issues of exile, migration and refugee-status. Process and materiality are key to her practice. Employing used engine oil and salt as mediums for painting, she engages in the environmental discussion: the threatening instability and subtle collapse of the planet; and the unethical seizing of rapidly dwindling natural resources.
The presentation includes the latest large scale intricate drawing by Pakistani artist Waqas Khan. Waqas Khan's large scale minimalist drawings resemble webs and celestial expanses. The contemplation leaving a visible evidence on paper is the crux of the work. Khan employs small dashes and minuscule dots to create large entanglements. The artist is increasingly working on monumental pieces on acrylic canvases, onto which the ink from the artist's stroke reacts in a uniquely way with the surface.
The gallery will also present in Taipei Dangdai two suspended minimal sculptures by Korean artist Jong Oh. His practice is quite particular since he does not use a studio but creates minimal sculptures in situ that respond to a given spatial situation. Responding to the nuanced configuration of each site, the artist constructs spatial structures by suspending and interconnecting a limited selection of materials: rope, chains, fishing wire, perspex, wooden and metal rods and painted threads. The elements of the work seem to float, and depending on the spatial relationship of the viewer with it, these elements are connected and cross each other or appear as absolutely independent, suggesting additional dimensions to the simple three-dimensional space.
The presentation is completed with two signature large-scale watercolor works by established artist Dagoberto Rodríguez (formerly part of the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros). Combining architecture, design and sculpture, his work employs humor and irony to comment on core topics in art, politics and society. Watercolor forms a very important part of his creative process: it is a way of registering and revising his ideas and often these works reflect a fantasy of a possible conceptual situation. The gallery also participates in the Salon sector, with a watercolor painting by Korean emerging artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, consisting of a myriad of cell-like marks that vary in size, color, and saturation. His works are perceived at first as ethereal and delicate, but the extreme labor-intensive compositions, marked by intensely obsessive repetitions, quickly betray that initial perception.

mpefm TAIWAN fair art press release
Public Opening Hours:
11am-6pm, Friday, 17 January
11am-6pm, Saturday, 18 January
11am-5:30pm, Sunday, 19 January
VIP Preview (invitation only):
2pm-5pm, Thursday, 16 January
VERNISSAGE (by invitation or advance ticket) :
5pm-9pm, Thursday, 16 January
Tickets :
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16 Jan Vernissage Ticket NT$ 1500
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SAT 18 Jan NT$ 625
SUN 19 Jan NT$ 625
ON-DOOR NT$ 750
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ADVANCE TICKET OFFER ENDS ON 13 JANUARY 2020

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