Anna Boghiguian
dal 14/2/2013 al 29/3/2013
Segnalato da
14/2/2013
Anna Boghiguian
Daad Galerie, Berlin
Unstructured Diary for an Autobiography. The artist's solo show features new drawings and collages which are complemented by sculptural elements, all made during her stay in Berlin, at the daadgalerie.
Anna Boghiguian (born in Cairo, Egypt in 1946) lives nomadically between Cairo, India,
Europe and other new destinations time and again. She studied art and music at the
Concordia University in Montreal and political science and economics at the American
University in Cairo.
During her travels, she develops diary-like series of coloured
drawings and collages, full of impressions that can be read as snapshots or as a
thematically bundled description of our world. Boghiguian captures themes such as the
environment of leprosy sufferers in India or the complex town structure of Cairo,
»traffic in the streets, people in cafés but also the motionless silence of the City of the
Dead and also in recent times the traces of conflict and collapse« (Eva Scharrer). In
doing so, she creates intellectual and compositional links between antiquity, literature
and poetry as well as present issues, whilst engaging intensively with the sensory
organs, ear, eye, mouth. The figural is merged with text in mainly compact and
multilayered, sometimes even reduced drawings or collages. At the recent documenta
13, Boghiguian‘s expressive series of drawings »Unfinished Symphony« (2012)
impressed through their bold juxtaposition with the gouaches (also constructed from
text and image) of the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon who was killed in
Auschwitz.
Following a short-term DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program grant, Anna Boghiguian is
showing new drawings and collages which are complemented by sculptural elements,
all made during her stay in Berlin, at the daadgalerie. Characteristics of the current
Berlin are combined with reflections on the continuous myth around Nefertiti, the wife
of Ekhnaton and the current situation in Egypt. In addition, Boghiguian’s past works,
which emerged in 1980’s Berlin, will be shown for the first time.
Image :Anna Boghiguian »Kidnapped / She chose to live in Berlin's Neues
Museum after all her fate was to disappear«, 2013 Courtesy: The Artist
Photo: Krzysztof Zielinski
Press Contact:
artpress – Ute Weingarten l Elisabethkirchstr. 15 l 10115 Berlin l artpress@uteweingarten.de l 030 - 48496350
Opening: Friday, 15th February, 7 – 9 pm
daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90 l 10117 Berlin
Mon-Sat 11-18