Buy Art Fair Manchester

Buy Art Fair - 24 -27th September 2014

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Another great visit to the Buy Art Fair. This time held at the Granada studios...'The iconic film and television studios once home to Coronation Street, Cold Feet and Cracker will be taken over by Buy Art Fair and The Manchester Contemporary. Gone is the set of the Rovers Return, replaced by white walls ready for art to be hung'. Love this fair - so much amazing work to see, inspiration everywhere. Loved seeing Dan Hilliers original print used on Royal Blood cover (being a big Royal Blood Fan) ...if only i had the money! 

http://www.danhillier.com/

Bashir Makhoul

http://www.asiatriennialmanchester.com/

http://www.bashirmakhoul.co.uk/

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/people/qa-with-bashir-makhoul/2014932.article

In key works in the exhibition, Makhoul explores evocative connections between the cardboard imagery, the textile objects, occupation and the colonization of places. Among them are such works that exhibit emotionally charged references to the cities, refugee camps that the Palestinians inhabit, and scars that the associated wars have left on the walls of these cities and camps. These works also illuminate the artist's deep engagement with themes of identity and place during a period that coincided not only with a world that is unstable and volatile, but also produced at a time with the most actively intense period of the Palestinian relentless quest for decolonization and self-determination.

The imagery of the cardboard boxes and textile bullet holes represent something of greater significance through literal or figurative association and expression of cultural, political and economic realities. Where by continues the search for new ways to imagine an amalgam of identity; the imaginary that is the only state that cannot be violated.

lthough the work is realistic in style and in some ways formal, its thematic relations to minimalism and conceptual art are clear and lure us to enter a philosophical and political domain of displacement and conflict. There are apparent formal visual connections to Cubist paintings, in terms of texture, colour and space and so on; the paintings in this exhibition present an imaginary reality that depict radically fragmented objects of simultaneous temporality.