British Museum holds Islamic art exhibition

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British Museum holds Islamic art exhibition
5/24/2006 11:30:00 AM GMT

The British Museum in London is holding a spectacular exhibition that
focuses on contemporary art of the Islamic World, BBC reported.

Titled "Word into Art - Artists of the Modern Middle East", the exhibition
focuses on the way artists are using different approaches to adapt Arabic
script to their needs whether on canvas or on the page. It is also
considered a useful guide to contemporary art in the Middle East.

The exhibition, which will last until September 2, displays the work of more
than 80 visual artists from today's Islamic world; their birthplaces
stretching from Iraq to Algeria.

The British Museum has been collecting contemporary work from the Middle
East since the 1980s, and the museum as a whole wants people to begin to
link it with living artists and not just those long dead.

Almost everything displayed at the "Word into Art" is from the museum's
existing collections.

The exhibition has four sections;

. Sacred Script looks at the relationship between Arabic script and Islam

. Literature and Art concentrates on how artists have illustrated and
decorated classic texts

. Deconstructing the Word looks at Arabic script's place in modern art

. Identity, History and politics looks at how art illuminates the current
politics of the Islamic world

Correspondents say the exhibition could be considered as a political
statement given today's tense relations between the Islamic world and the
West.

Isabelle Caussé, who helped curate it, says that though many of the artists
have been deeply influenced by the politics of the Middle East, the museum's
aim was simply to show to the world developments in modern art in a huge
region whose culture remains unfamiliar to most people outside its borders.

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[AnonMoos]

Too bad that Wahhabites like you would consider most such art to
be "un-Islamic", Abu Alfalfa!

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