Adel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed (born 1971 in Constantine, Algeria) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Paris, France. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Christine König Galerie, Vienna.
Abdessemed attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers, Algeria from 1987 to 1994. Due to political unrest in Algeria, he moved to Lyon, France in 1994. He continued his fine arts education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, before completing his studies in Paris, France in 2000. The following year, he enrolled at the International Studio Program at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
Abdessemed attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers, Algeria from 1987 to 1994. Due to political unrest in Algeria, he moved to Lyon, France in 1994. He continued his fine arts education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, before completing his studies in Paris, France in 2000. The following year, he enrolled at the International Studio Program at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
Within a wide range of media (drawing, video, photography, performance, and installation), Abdessemed transforms everyday materials and images into unexpected, charged, and sometimes shocking artistic declarations.
Adel Abdessemed has a knack for making viewers uncomfortable. Rather like the Chapman brothers, the Algerian-born artist brutally pushes boundaries while questioning our morals. He has made a film of a woman breastfeeding a piglet; instigated a performance in a Milan gallery where people had sex in front of an applauding audience; set himself on fire for a photographic portrait, and created sculptures of Christ made from barbed wire.
In February 2013, he showed one of his most troubling works in London: Cri (Cry, 2012), a sculpture made from mammoth ivory, is based on Nick Ut’s still-harrowing 1972 photograph of Kim Phuc, the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl captured naked and badly burned as she fled a napalm attack on her village.
In February 2013, he showed one of his most troubling works in London: Cri (Cry, 2012), a sculpture made from mammoth ivory, is based on Nick Ut’s still-harrowing 1972 photograph of Kim Phuc, the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl captured naked and badly burned as she fled a napalm attack on her village.
Wild animals figure frequently in his works, and he often places them in dangerous situations. In 2007, he let seven wild boars loose on a Paris street to produce a photograph called Sept frères (Seven brothers), and his 2009 video Usine (Factory), shown in his first solo show at David Zwirner, featured snakes, spiders, frogs, dogs and cocks thrown together into a pit to fight it out. “Other artists use animals to represent something else,” he explains, “While for me, they are a real presence; our interaction is direct.”
The 'Palazza Grassi" wrote about one of Abdessemed's performances: "Taxidermy (2010) is a cube made up of [600] stuffed animals (salvaged from junk shops) assembled with wire and then burnt. In his work Abdessemed often uses animals, the silent victims of all kinds of violence (which succeed in inflaming public opinion more than the much worse injustices inflicted on human beings), but also witnesses to an experience that precedes language. By the choice of the cube, an iconic allusion to the origins of modern art and also to that minimalism which the artist seems to see as the antipodes of his own work, Abdessemed creates an extreme tension between the concept of power/abuse and the creative act."
Abdessemed is criticized by animal rights activists who say the animal cruelty depicted in his artwork has been inflicted for the sake of the exhibits. His video "Usine" showing pit bulls, roosters, scorpions, snakes and spiders trapped in a pen ripping each other apart, was shot in Mexico where animal fighting is legal.
His media exhibit "Don't Trust Me," which was supposed to be viewed at the San Francisco Art Institute, shows horses and other animals as they are slaughtered for consumption, was also shot in Mexico. Along with a variety of other elements, the show included a series of video loops of animals being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer blow on the head in front of a brick wall. The animals killed included a pig, goat, deer, ox, horse and sheep. Protests and death threats caused the exhibit to be cancelled 5 days after opening day.
Although the artist had [presumably] just filmed the atrocities at a Mexican farm, viewers of the video questioned what his role was in the violence against animals.
His media exhibit "Don't Trust Me," which was supposed to be viewed at the San Francisco Art Institute, shows horses and other animals as they are slaughtered for consumption, was also shot in Mexico. Along with a variety of other elements, the show included a series of video loops of animals being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer blow on the head in front of a brick wall. The animals killed included a pig, goat, deer, ox, horse and sheep. Protests and death threats caused the exhibit to be cancelled 5 days after opening day.
Although the artist had [presumably] just filmed the atrocities at a Mexican farm, viewers of the video questioned what his role was in the violence against animals.
Abdessemed issued a statement in response but refused to justify, excuse or contextualize the killings, instead declaring his commitment to preserve the status of “an act of slaughter,” full stop, “without spectacularization and without dramatization.”
"Don't Trust Me est une vidéo dont j'ai la responsabilité pleine et entière dans sa conception, production et diffusion. Don't Trust Me est une œuvre que j'ai volontairement voulu dans la représentation d'un acte d'abattement d'animaux (…) Dans le cas où l'œuvre poserait des problèmes insurmontables à une structure qui a choisi de l'exposer, je préfère mettre un terme à l'exposition plutôt que de trouver une parade aux polémiques par des justifications mensongères." stated Abdessement, according to Wikipedia.
Abdessemed's artwork was a principal factor in the creation of the Humanitarian Art Ordinance, written by a San Francisco attorney Christine Garcia and passed in March 2009 by the Greater Valley Glen Council in Southern California. The motion was subsequently referred to the Los Angeles City Council for further consideration. The ordinance (that you can read below) says artwork should be deemed illegal when the artist has caused, created or contributed to the crime of animal abuse for the purpose of his or her creation of the media or exhibit.
"Don't Trust Me est une vidéo dont j'ai la responsabilité pleine et entière dans sa conception, production et diffusion. Don't Trust Me est une œuvre que j'ai volontairement voulu dans la représentation d'un acte d'abattement d'animaux (…) Dans le cas où l'œuvre poserait des problèmes insurmontables à une structure qui a choisi de l'exposer, je préfère mettre un terme à l'exposition plutôt que de trouver une parade aux polémiques par des justifications mensongères." stated Abdessement, according to Wikipedia.
Abdessemed's artwork was a principal factor in the creation of the Humanitarian Art Ordinance, written by a San Francisco attorney Christine Garcia and passed in March 2009 by the Greater Valley Glen Council in Southern California. The motion was subsequently referred to the Los Angeles City Council for further consideration. The ordinance (that you can read below) says artwork should be deemed illegal when the artist has caused, created or contributed to the crime of animal abuse for the purpose of his or her creation of the media or exhibit.
“My work is not pessimistic,” he counters. “At the base of it there probably is despair, but inside it is the force to create,
and if there is a creative force, then that as an activity is something positive.
My work is extremely positive — it is the world that is negative.”
As I leave, I take away a sense of an artist with a profound need to speak to his audience, said Ben Luke, who interviewed the "artist"
.“Of course, I want my work to be universal,” Abdessemed explains.
“My work is talking about our humanity — we are monsters.”
and if there is a creative force, then that as an activity is something positive.
My work is extremely positive — it is the world that is negative.”
As I leave, I take away a sense of an artist with a profound need to speak to his audience, said Ben Luke, who interviewed the "artist"
.“Of course, I want my work to be universal,” Abdessemed explains.
“My work is talking about our humanity — we are monsters.”
Humanitarian Art Ordinance
I am happy to report the Greater Valley Glen Council voted to support my motion, making it illegal to kill or abuse animals for the sake of art. The motion has now been forwarded to the Los Angeles City Council and to legislators in Sacramento with hopes they will further the effort. This letter was sent to LA City Councilmembers.
Dear Honorable Councilmember,
The Greater Valley Glen Council encourages you to create a Humanitarian Art Ordinance for the city of Los Angeles, making it illegal to abuse or kill animals for the sake of art. A sample ordinance is enclosed for your review.
The San Francisco Art Institute recently planned to display the short film called "Don't Trust Me" by an artist named Adel Abdessemed, which depicted horses and other animals being bludgeoned to death; protests and negative press forced them to cancel the exhibit. Abdessemed's ensuing film titled "Usine" was featured in May 2009 at a New York exhibit. In this film, the artist traps animals in a pen, including pit bulls and roosters, and causes them to rip each other apart.
A Costa Rican artist starved a dog to death as “art;” the animal was tied up at the exhibit and left for weeks with no food or water until he perished. A recent art project in Florida involved dipping live mice into resin, then cutting them into cubes. A domestic cat was skinned alive for a project at the Toronto Film Festival. Two years ago in Los Angeles, an elephant was spray painted to look like wallpaper for an exhibit; LA Animal Services had to go to the exhibit and order the unsafe paint to be removed.
We are opposed to this disturbing trend in the art world and hope you will make it clear that Los Angeles’ art exhibits and projects are compassionate. If the artist creates or contributes to animal cruelty in a country where abusive acts are legal, the resulting artwork should be outlawed in the United States.
This is the sample ordinance for the city of Los Angeles:
The Humanitarian Art Ordinance makes the commission of animal abuse for the purposes of creating media or an exhibit illegal and punishable as a misdemeanor or felony and says The City will not Commission such Exhibits.
Resolution approving the “Humanitarian Art” Ordinance would make the commission of the crime of Animal Abuse for the purposes of creating media or a display in the City of Los Angeles illegal and punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, and the City will not Commission such Exhibits.
WHEREAS, The City of Los Angeles recognizes and approves of the American Humane Association’s “Guidelines for the Safe Use of Animals in Filmed Media” wherein the basic principles declare that: · Animals are not props! · No animal will be killed or injured for the sake of a film production and American Humane Association will not allow any animal to be treated inhumanely to elicit a performance; and
WHEREAS, The City of Los Angeles holds that the production of media that the director or the producer of the media is the direct cause of animal abuse to be captured on media supports an unacceptable industry of animal abuse; and,
WHEREAS, “Animal Abuse” includes the violation of Los Angles Ordinances, State, Federal and international laws pertaining to animal abuse, the interest of animal welfare and animal cruelty laws specifically framed for the prevention of inhumane treatment of animals, including, but not limited to California Penal Code Sections 596, 596.5, 596.7, 597, 597.1, 597.3, 597a through x, 598, 598 a through d, 599 et al, 600, 623, 374d, 384h, 399, 399.5 and Federal laws 7 USC § 1901 – 1907, and 7 U.S.C. § 2131 et seq; and,
WHEREAS, “Caused or created or contributed to” shall mean that the defendant was responsible for causing the animal to be abused as defined above. A person is responsible for creating or causing the abuse of the animal if the animal would not have been abused in the way that the animal was captured on film “but for” the actions, production and direction of the defendant; and.
WHEREAS, “Exhibit” shall mean a display, presentation, show, film, media and/or screening of Animal Abuse; and.
WHEREAS, nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from capturing the Animal Abuse when the individual is not the cause of the death of animals and are not responsible for aiding or abetting in the crime of animal abuse that occurred; and,
WHEREAS, there is a government interest in protecting animals from unnecessary cruelty and not funding or commissioning animal cruelty to occur; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles hereby acknowledges that this law is necessary to prevent further animal cruelty; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Humane Art Ordinance will make the commission of the crime of Animal Abuse for the purposes of creating media to now be illegal, punishable as a misdemeanor or felony; and, be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City of Los Angeles will not Commission or sponsor Exhibits wherein the creator of the media caused the crime of Animal Abuse to occur; and, be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the ordinance would be drafted as a two pronged test for the actual director. The necessary elements of the crime are (a) Animal Abuse as defined under Los Angeles local ordinances, state, federal or international law must have taken place, (b) The defendant would have caused or created or contributed to the crime of Animal Abuse to take place for the purposes of his or her creation of the media or exhibit.
Thank you. If you have any questions, I can be reached at (818) 346-5280.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Laws, Ph.D.
Chair – Government Relations
Greater Valley Glen Council
*Ordinance language authored by Commissioner Christine Garcia (SF area).
Source: The Charlotte Laws Blog
Dear Honorable Councilmember,
The Greater Valley Glen Council encourages you to create a Humanitarian Art Ordinance for the city of Los Angeles, making it illegal to abuse or kill animals for the sake of art. A sample ordinance is enclosed for your review.
The San Francisco Art Institute recently planned to display the short film called "Don't Trust Me" by an artist named Adel Abdessemed, which depicted horses and other animals being bludgeoned to death; protests and negative press forced them to cancel the exhibit. Abdessemed's ensuing film titled "Usine" was featured in May 2009 at a New York exhibit. In this film, the artist traps animals in a pen, including pit bulls and roosters, and causes them to rip each other apart.
A Costa Rican artist starved a dog to death as “art;” the animal was tied up at the exhibit and left for weeks with no food or water until he perished. A recent art project in Florida involved dipping live mice into resin, then cutting them into cubes. A domestic cat was skinned alive for a project at the Toronto Film Festival. Two years ago in Los Angeles, an elephant was spray painted to look like wallpaper for an exhibit; LA Animal Services had to go to the exhibit and order the unsafe paint to be removed.
We are opposed to this disturbing trend in the art world and hope you will make it clear that Los Angeles’ art exhibits and projects are compassionate. If the artist creates or contributes to animal cruelty in a country where abusive acts are legal, the resulting artwork should be outlawed in the United States.
This is the sample ordinance for the city of Los Angeles:
The Humanitarian Art Ordinance makes the commission of animal abuse for the purposes of creating media or an exhibit illegal and punishable as a misdemeanor or felony and says The City will not Commission such Exhibits.
Resolution approving the “Humanitarian Art” Ordinance would make the commission of the crime of Animal Abuse for the purposes of creating media or a display in the City of Los Angeles illegal and punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, and the City will not Commission such Exhibits.
WHEREAS, The City of Los Angeles recognizes and approves of the American Humane Association’s “Guidelines for the Safe Use of Animals in Filmed Media” wherein the basic principles declare that: · Animals are not props! · No animal will be killed or injured for the sake of a film production and American Humane Association will not allow any animal to be treated inhumanely to elicit a performance; and
WHEREAS, The City of Los Angeles holds that the production of media that the director or the producer of the media is the direct cause of animal abuse to be captured on media supports an unacceptable industry of animal abuse; and,
WHEREAS, “Animal Abuse” includes the violation of Los Angles Ordinances, State, Federal and international laws pertaining to animal abuse, the interest of animal welfare and animal cruelty laws specifically framed for the prevention of inhumane treatment of animals, including, but not limited to California Penal Code Sections 596, 596.5, 596.7, 597, 597.1, 597.3, 597a through x, 598, 598 a through d, 599 et al, 600, 623, 374d, 384h, 399, 399.5 and Federal laws 7 USC § 1901 – 1907, and 7 U.S.C. § 2131 et seq; and,
WHEREAS, “Caused or created or contributed to” shall mean that the defendant was responsible for causing the animal to be abused as defined above. A person is responsible for creating or causing the abuse of the animal if the animal would not have been abused in the way that the animal was captured on film “but for” the actions, production and direction of the defendant; and.
WHEREAS, “Exhibit” shall mean a display, presentation, show, film, media and/or screening of Animal Abuse; and.
WHEREAS, nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from capturing the Animal Abuse when the individual is not the cause of the death of animals and are not responsible for aiding or abetting in the crime of animal abuse that occurred; and,
WHEREAS, there is a government interest in protecting animals from unnecessary cruelty and not funding or commissioning animal cruelty to occur; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles hereby acknowledges that this law is necessary to prevent further animal cruelty; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Humane Art Ordinance will make the commission of the crime of Animal Abuse for the purposes of creating media to now be illegal, punishable as a misdemeanor or felony; and, be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City of Los Angeles will not Commission or sponsor Exhibits wherein the creator of the media caused the crime of Animal Abuse to occur; and, be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the ordinance would be drafted as a two pronged test for the actual director. The necessary elements of the crime are (a) Animal Abuse as defined under Los Angeles local ordinances, state, federal or international law must have taken place, (b) The defendant would have caused or created or contributed to the crime of Animal Abuse to take place for the purposes of his or her creation of the media or exhibit.
Thank you. If you have any questions, I can be reached at (818) 346-5280.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Laws, Ph.D.
Chair – Government Relations
Greater Valley Glen Council
*Ordinance language authored by Commissioner Christine Garcia (SF area).
Source: The Charlotte Laws Blog
The ambiguous brutality of Adel Abdessemed
at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
"je suis innocent"
October 3, 2012 - January 7, 2013
Adel Abdessement exhibits at France's national modern art museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, after he has been reclusive for the past several years, protecting himself behind a multitude of aesthetic and symbolic references. Indeed, his show is titled “Je Suis Innocent” (“I Am Innocent”), as if he were Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the violence of others. The subtext of this title could be, “The world, people, and art, are all brutal — not me,” suggesting that the violence of which he’s been accused of basing his work on (a show of animal snuff videos was even removed from the San Francisco Art Institute) came from somewhere else. Abdessemed is claiming to be just a passerby, a printing plate, a slightly distorting mirror.
In the artist’s work, the shock is first visual and unpredictable, like a well-placed headbutt or a left hook. At the Pompidou, snakes and frogs kill each other on camera (in “Usine” or “Factory,” from 2008); a piglet eagerly nurses at a woman’s breast (“Lise,” 2011); a nude and corpulent monk plays the flute (“Joueur de Flûte” or “Flute-Player,” 1996); stuffed foxes and rabbits, with their mouths gaping, form a massive relief sculpture (“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?,” 2011-12); and an airplane is rolled up like a wrap (“Bourek,” 2005).
“Adel Abdessemed almost always dreams his artworks,” curator Philippe-Alain Michaud said at the Pompidou preview. These pieces primarily express the savagery of dreams rather than tackle politics or history, which only survive in bits and pieces after being chaotically assimilated by the sleeping artist. (Source: Blouin Art Info)
The French are outraged!
French animal rights activists, animal lovers and 'normal people' alike, are outraged and shocked at the fact that their national modern art museum, the until then respected and elusive Centre Georges Pompidou, promotes these violent and tasteless works that have, in their and in many other people's humble opinion, nothing to do with real art and creativity, and they want the exhibition to be cancelled. People find the works offending, and that they could be upsetting to some viewers. They think that “it’s inopportune to show such things” and that it could induce people to imitate them.
Two petitions, addressed to France's Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti have been started at AVAAZ (here and here). Another petition has been addressed directly to Adel Abdessemed and people complain directly to the Centre Georges Pompidou by sending emails and posting on their Facebook-page.
If you are outraged, too, you can voice your opinion here:
Centre Georges Pompidou FB-page
Event-page related to the exhibition
Contact form
FB-page of the Minister of Culture
Email addresses:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
tél : 01 44 78 12 33
Président: Alain SEBAN
Tél : 01 44 78 49 60
Courriel : [email protected]
Directrice générale: Agnès SAAL
Tél : 10 44 78 40 56
Courriel : [email protected]
DIRECTION DE LA COMMUNICATION ET DES PARTENARIATS
75191 PARIS CEDEX 04
Directrice: Françoise Pams
Téléphone: 00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 08
Attachés de presse:
Céline Janvier
00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 87
[email protected]
Thomas Lozinski
00 33 (0)1 44 78 48 56
[email protected]
Dorothée Mireux
00 33 (0)1 44 78 46 60
[email protected]
Anne-Marie Pereira
00 33 (0)1 44 78 40 69
[email protected]
Two petitions, addressed to France's Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti have been started at AVAAZ (here and here). Another petition has been addressed directly to Adel Abdessemed and people complain directly to the Centre Georges Pompidou by sending emails and posting on their Facebook-page.
If you are outraged, too, you can voice your opinion here:
Centre Georges Pompidou FB-page
Event-page related to the exhibition
Contact form
FB-page of the Minister of Culture
Email addresses:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
tél : 01 44 78 12 33
Président: Alain SEBAN
Tél : 01 44 78 49 60
Courriel : [email protected]
Directrice générale: Agnès SAAL
Tél : 10 44 78 40 56
Courriel : [email protected]
DIRECTION DE LA COMMUNICATION ET DES PARTENARIATS
75191 PARIS CEDEX 04
Directrice: Françoise Pams
Téléphone: 00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 08
Attachés de presse:
Céline Janvier
00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 87
[email protected]
Thomas Lozinski
00 33 (0)1 44 78 48 56
[email protected]
Dorothée Mireux
00 33 (0)1 44 78 46 60
[email protected]
Anne-Marie Pereira
00 33 (0)1 44 78 40 69
[email protected]
Below, a letter to Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture,
written by Kevin Meunier
Madame Filippetti, bonjour!
Je souhaiterais vous adresser, à vous la ministre de la Culture, tout mon mécontentement et ma consternation face au Centre Pompidou qui expose actuellement les oeuvres d'un criminel, le dénommé Adel Abdessemed.
En effet, ce meurtrier qui s'enorgueillit du titre d'artiste et qui, de surcroît, titre son exposition "je suis innocent", s'est défoulé à faire assassiner des animaux à coups de masses sur le crâne, devant l'oeil avide de sang de sa caméra, pour mieux nous en exposer toute la substance.
Cette oeuvre abjecte est à ce jour exposée dans ce que je considérais autrefois un "centre culturel respectable", le Centre Pompidou, à Paris.
Sachez que nous sommes des centaines, pour ne pas dire des milliers, à être révoltés face au dit centre qui refuse d'ôter cette exposition (et ainsi de condamner ces actes abjects de torture gratuite) au mépris des innombrables contestations leur étant adressées, tout en exposant une défense révoltante de la liberté de l'art dont nous en serions les idiots consommateurs puisque nous ne serions pas en mesure, nous, défenseurs des animaux et du respect de la vie, d'en savourer le fruit tâché du sang des innocents.
Violant la quasi intégralité de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Animal de l'UNESCO, je vous conjure de sanctionner sévèrement ce centre culturel, et de faire interdire toute oeuvre de ce bourreau sur le territoire français.
Sachez que je suis prêt à m'entretenir plus amplement avec vous sur le sujet, et que je souhaiterais voir ce problème réglé autrement que par le déchaînement de violence que cette exposition occasionne chez son public, et que la bienséance ne saurait contenir plus longtemps pour enfin le laisser s'exprimer à coups de masse sur les oeuvres d'Adel Abdessemed qui n'auraient alors reçu que ce qu'elles méritaient.
En souhaitant obtenir réponse favorable et démarche conséquentes de votre part.
Bien cordialement,
Source
October 2013 - After the 'Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris,
the 'Qatari Museum' in Matha (State of Qatar)
displays Abdessemed's tasteless works until January 2014
October 13, 2013 - SHABINA S. KHATRI - The Qatar Museums Authority is standing by a controversial film on display at the Arab Museum of Modern Art (Mathaf) following a number of complaints about its content. Titled “Printemps,” or “spring” in French, the video depicts several chickens screaming while appearing to be on fire as they hang against a wall.
The film, which can be viewed in part here, was produced by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed, as part of an homage to the suffering of those involved in the Arab Spring revolutions. It is part of the L’âge d’Or (The Golden Age) exhibition that is on display at Mathaf until Jan. 5, 2014.
Abdessemed is also the artist who created the controversial Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue that was recently installed on the Corniche.
On Twitter, Qataris have expressed shock and disgust at the film, saying it is distasteful and offensive.
Please click on the picture below to continue reading the entire article on the original link.
The film, which can be viewed in part here, was produced by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed, as part of an homage to the suffering of those involved in the Arab Spring revolutions. It is part of the L’âge d’Or (The Golden Age) exhibition that is on display at Mathaf until Jan. 5, 2014.
Abdessemed is also the artist who created the controversial Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue that was recently installed on the Corniche.
On Twitter, Qataris have expressed shock and disgust at the film, saying it is distasteful and offensive.
Please click on the picture below to continue reading the entire article on the original link.
The Qataris and residents of Qatar, are outraged and shocked at the fact that their modern art museum, the until now respected Mathaf, promotes these violent and tasteless works that have nothing to do with real art and creativity, and they demand the exhibition to be cancelled and the directors responsible fired!
Please sign their petition using the big blue button below...
Please sign their petition using the big blue button below...
and please take a moment to send a personal email to the 'Qatari Museum, at:
The directors responsible:
Edward Dolman, QMA Executive Director & Acting CEO
Abdellah Karroum, Mathaf Director
If you are outraged, too, you can voice your opinion here:
Mathaf director's email adress:
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Mathaf FB page:
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The directors responsible:
Edward Dolman, QMA Executive Director & Acting CEO
Abdellah Karroum, Mathaf Director
If you are outraged, too, you can voice your opinion here:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Abdessemed
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/nathan/adel-abdessemed-2-24-12.asp
http://www.palazzograssi.it/en/exhibition/in-praise-of-doubt/room-map/adel-abdessemed
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Abdessemed
http://charlottelaws.blogspot.com/2009/03/humanitarian-art-ordinance.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/830605/the-ambiguous-brutality-of-adel-abdessemed-at-the-pompidou
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/man-on-fire-adel-abdessemed-brings-his-work-to-mayfair-8436674.html