Paris 17


JAMEEL PRIZE 5


CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN INSPIRED BY ISLAMIC TRADITION


In partnership with


Take My Hand In Marriage And Matrimonial Money With Offers Of Dowry And Grandiose Public Weddings (2018) by Rina Banerjee, mixed media, 80 x 50 x 30 cm


the contours of a complex society that is torn between tradition and innovation, and it is the first exhibition of such scope devoted to Indonesian contemporary art in Paris.


Detail of a map from Yixing prefecture, Jiangsu province, China, Qing dynasty, 18th century, ink on paper © MNAAG / Paris


masterpieces of cartography and iconography that show the fruitful exchanges between the different Asian regions, as well as between Asia and the rest of the world. Paintings, engravings and manuscripts, and porcelains, lacquers and ivories, as well as a rare Japanese armillary sphere, show the process of globalisation from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Te exploration of Asia is seen through the cosmographies, pilgrimage routes and discoveries, and the colonial expansion of the time.


JAVA


ART ENERGY Institute of Islamic Cultures, Paris, 17 September to 24 February 2019


Te institute has drawn together


Te 13 artists tackle such themes as the disappearance of biodiversity due to the rapid increase in urbanisation, the colonial past, and the rise of radical Islam. Te works also explore how spirituality and religion coexist daily in this country that has the highest Muslim population in world, who coexist alongside Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucianists. Tese unpublished works of art that explore the artistic vitality of this island, the creative core of the majority of Indonesian artists.


ABDULQADER AL RAIS


Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, 25 September to 21 October


Tis is the first time in France that the works of Abdulqader al Rais (b 1951) have been displayed. He is considered one of the pioneers of Arab art and celebrated in the United Arab Emirates as one of their major painters and innovators who married modernity and tradition. Tis exhibition traces his career from his first works of the 1970s to the last paintings made specifically for the exhibition.


RINA BANERJEE


NATIVE NAKED Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, 8 September to 27 October


From the Yesteryear series (2007) by Abdulqader al Rais, watercolours on paper, 157 x 207 cm


Framer Framed (2017) by Mohamed Yusuf, detail, linocut on paper © Maarten van Haaff


In her works, Rina Banerjee (b 1963, India) has never been shy of addressing issues she felt strongly about whether dealing with colonialism, gender, multiculturalism, appropriation to name just a few. In Native Naked she further investigates one of the collaterals of migration: the marriage market and the wedding industry. As the media tend to focus on the migration issue per se, other – and so far neglected and alarming consequences are coming with it. Relying on a large variety of materials and media ranging from painting to installation, sculpture and works on paper, she questions the nature of the institution of marriage, the decision making process behind it and the codes ruling the process according to the different cultural backgrounds. Referring to her own country, India, where the marriage market is not unusual, Rina Banerjee emphasises how this issue has grown widely and has become an issue we should all feel concerned about.


Olivia Sand SEPTEMBER 2018 ASIAN ART


V&A South Kensington Until 25 November 2018


#JameelPrize5 Admission free


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Deux plis à 120° [Two folds at 120 degrees] by Mehdi Moutashar, 2012 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London


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