Opening: 04.12.2014 @7:00 AM
Exhibition on view until 08.12.2014
Location: paddle8.com
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‘Thresholds of Motion’ presents a unique collection of contemporary art composed of photography, printmaking, drawing, oil and silk painting, ceramic, assemblage and sculpture...
Opening: 12.04.2014 @4.30PM – 6.30PM
Location: Sàn Art Lab
40/18 Pham Viet Chanh,
District Binh Thanh, HCMC
Khadim Ali will discuss why he became an artist, sharing his lived experiences of researching mythic and contemporary realities of violence and beauty, between Quetta (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Sydney (Australia).
Khadim’s study of the art of the Persian miniature focuses on his re-reading of the ‘Book of Kings’, otherwise referred as the ‘Shahnameh’ (the epic book of poems by AbulQasimFerdowsi c. 977-1010 CE). In this literary masterpiece of Persian literature,...
Khadim Ali was born in 1978 in Quetta, Pakistan. From 1998–99, he studied mural painting and calligraphy in Tehran, Iran. He earned a BFA at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan (2003), where he studied traditional miniature painting. Having moved to Sydney in 2010, he earned an MFA at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (2012). Ali now lives and works in Sydney, Quetta, and Kabul....
