1 ene 2015 año - Exhibition in Venice

Descripción:

Charged with this ambivalent aura, between impotence and power, the eye was suddenly “deceived” by a utopian, almost majestic Iraq exposed in Al Ani’s prints in Venice (remember that the Greek word “utopia”literally means “the place that does not exist” or a “place without space”). These images are paradoxically full of the future, hung on the sumptuous stone walls of a 17th-century Venetian palace facing the silent tides of the Grand Canal. Here, in this subtly anachronistic setting – a fertile crossroads of influences; the meeting place of the Venetian Republic and the Mediterranean, Byzantine and Muslim East; and the site of conflicting links with the Ottoman Empire – dreams of the past and future discovered an ephemeral common ground. Here we were able to see more clearly Al Ani’s Iraq “reborn” in 2015.