Sàn Art Online Auction 4-18 December 2014 on paddle8.com

Opening: 04.12.2014 @7:00 AM Exhibition on view until 08.12.2014 Location: paddle8.com paddle8.com/auction/sanart VIEW AUCTION AND PLACE YOUR BID HERE! ‘Thresholds of Motion’, an ‘exhibition-as-online auction’ with paddle8.com is a Sàn Art fundraising initiative. The success of this auction is crucial to the future sustainability of Sàn Art in Vietnam – a not-for-profit, independent contemporary art organisation whose activities are in serious financial jeopardy. We need your support! ‘Thresholds of Motion’ presents a unique collection of contemporary art composed of photography, printmaking, drawing, oil and silk painting, ceramic, assemblage and sculpture...

Artist talk: Khadim Ali

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

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....