Wael Shawky
Cabaret Crusades - drawings
by Maria Kappel Blegvad, Erlend G. Høyersten, Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, Anastasia Shanaah, and Wael Shawky
The discussion around foreignness and otherness is currently heated. Debate is shaped by waves of refugees from the Middle East, and humanitarian catastrophes in the Mediterranean and along the smuggler routes. Islamic terror attacks take place in Europe. At the heart of the discourse is the contact and differences between cultures, East and West, not least the claims to supremacy of religions and legal systems. Art cannot solve problems, but it can open perspectives that shed another light on these existential questions. The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky tells the story of the crusades, based on a book by the French-Libyan author Amin Maalouf, portrayed from the perspective of Arabian sources. Shawky became famous over night with the first part, "The Horror Show File" (2010). The settings are Damascus, Mosul, Jerusalem and Aleppo-once again the trouble spots of today.00Exhibition: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (16.07.-23.10.2016).
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Wael Shawky: the crusades and current stories
2018, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
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Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades - drawings
2017, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, distributor
in German
3960980469 9783960980469
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On the occasion of the exhibition "Wael Shawky" held at Kunsthaus Bregenz, July 16 - October 23, 2016.
No title page.
The book is arranged as pop-up picture book in a horizontal way.
Parallel texts in German, English, and Arabic.
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The heart of the exhibition starring Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is his famous puppet film trilogy Cabaret Crusades, shown for the first time in Denmark. The exhibition also presents a rich selection of other works, including puppets featured in the films, vast wooden reliefs, drawings, photographs and collages ? and an entirely new, site specific work that takes the form of a 50-metre wall. The trilogy Cabaret Crusades relate the history of the medieval Crusades in the Middle East ? seen from an Arab point of view. Taking his point of departure in original historical sources and an innovative use of marionettes, Shawky re-enacts historic events from the distant past, focusing on the complicated relationship between the West and the Middle East. He depicts a past characterised by fierce conflict and violent clashes that continue to inform the relationship between the West and Middle East today, giving us a chance to see the Crusades and our own present day in a new light.00Exhibition: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark (19.05-09.09.2018).
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