Giving a chance to witness some of the masterpieces coming from around the world, Anima Gallery is showcasing a collective exhibition running the entire month. Featuring some of the great names from the world of art, the exhibition is showcasing pieces from the private collection of the gallery including some that have already been exhibited.
“The exhibition features artworks from different artists. Only some of these have already been showcased while there are many fresh and new art pieces on display,” Mohamed Makouk, the Art Consultant at Anima Gallery told Community.
Makouk says the exhibition will run through the whole month of October and is open to public during the working hours of the gallery.
It features artist such as Peter Zimmermann. He is a contemporary abstract artist known for his blob paintings. His medium is typically airbrushing combined with digital arts; he mainly uses programs such as Photoshop to express his unique point of view. Zimmermann gained international prominence with his individualistic paintings.
Zimmermann was born in 1956 in Freiburg, Germany, and began his studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2002, Zimmermann received a professorship at Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne. He has also been a guest lecturer at Universitat Luneburg in Luneberg, Germany.
He became famous with his collection entitled Book Covers in the 1980s, in which he conceptualised the artwork on classic books and art catalogues. This collection was interesting in that Zimmermann was turning art into art.
Primary Structures is one of the works in this grouping; this piece is based on a 1966 catalogue for the Minimalist Art Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. Zimmerman’s first exhibit was at the Galerie Tanja Grunert in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1981.
Masakatsu Sashie is a Japanese artist best known for his orb paintings of fictional world, filled with futuristic warnings about human’s tendencies for environmental dominance and over-consumption.
Sashie’s artworks present an imaginary world depicting large, city-like spheres drifting above remains of a destroyed civilisation.
His gigantic orbs are created out of scraps of old constructions from the Showa-period (period of enlightened peace and harmony, period of radiant Japan during the time of reign of the Showa Emperor, Hirohito, from 1926 to 1989) and a pieces of mass production and mass consumption culture.
The exhibition also features Said Baalbaki from Lebanon. Themes of historical accuracy, institutional power and social memory feature in the artwork of painter and interdisciplinary artist Baalbaki.
Based in Berlin, the Lebanese artist was initially known for painted works that drew on his experiences as a child during the Lebanese Civil War and Israeli occupation. Baalbaki and his family were often uprooted and forced to move between different districts in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon during the war.
There is Aurora Canero from Spain. Born and educated in Canero, Spain, she has been working in bronze for more than 30 years. She creates poetic and whimsical meditations on the human spirit.
Timo Nasseri comes from Iran. Nasseri was born in Berlin in 1972 to a German mother and an Iranian father. He began his artistic career as a photographer, and in 2004 he made the transition to creating sculpture.
Combining Islamic and Western cultural heritages, his work is inspired as much by specific memories and religious references as by universal archetypes described by mathematics and language, and the inner truths of form and rhythm.
Also from Iran is Kambiz Sharif. He was born in 1978 in Tabriz, Iran. During his teenage years, Sharif developed an interest in art, taking pictures and drawing sketches and using different materials, clay, wood, etc. to make models.
From 1992 to 1996 he attended the Mirak Arts School in Tabriz, earning his Art Diploma. After graduation, Sharif moved to Tehran where he opened a studio and began working in sculpture full-time, using form to express his thoughts and feelings.
Sharif opened his own sculptural school in 2001 with classes in clay, wood, stone, and in bronze casting. Sharif migrated to Vancouver, Canada just over two years ago and has started a new life, opening a studio in Vancouver where he continues his sculptural practice.
Tsi Wei Chen from Taiwan also makes the part of exhibition. In the process of making artistic creation, Cheng always try to get rid of the habitual rational judgment, and with a different angle, uses his heart to experience the inspiration given by the people, events, and objects of surrounding reality.
When an artistic creation takes shape gradually with the rise and fall of thought in one’s mind, one can discover the beauty constantly during the process. Beauty exists naturally; however, if you don’t discover it, it’s equal to not existing.