ISSUE02 | Magazine
Al-Tiba9 Magazine Issue02 covers 18 artists with a primary focus on contemporary visual art reflecting modern society and its environment, in the field of photography, paintings, visual art, music, film and performance.
Featured Artists
Alisa Aistova - Alves Ludovico - Anton Lefabi - Andy Sowerby - Anett Posalaki - Charlie Wayne - Chiara Sgatti - Chih Yang Chen - Christian Neuman - Crisia Miroiu - Jonathan Irawan - Mariano Alvarez - Marilina Alvarez - Monica Sousa - Nour Hassan - Shahab Naseri - Uriel Ziv Azancot.
Interviews
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Nour’s Hassan inspiration is derived from mundane situations, experiences, and thoughts. As Louise Bourgeois declares “Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up”. Her process is mostly informed by an idea, once established, she explores executing it without limiting herself to a style or brushstroke.
Jonathan is a part of Pulpo Collective - they envision future scenarios, and question how design as a practice can resolve challenges of the future, addressing both the physical realm of our urban habitats and natural environments, as well as changes in society.
The utilities for creating art are many, yet the number of artists is not considerable. An artist whose art is drawn from independent thoughts and ideas is a true artist; we must greaten our insight, there is no other way than finding what you would share with the world.
Anton Lefabi’s work is centered on repetition, obsession, irony, and sacrifice, essentially based on a conceptual modus operandi which manifests itself in thematic work series. He shifts perception by investing his energy into developing a method of transcription which aims to let a work radiate a specific idea.
Making hand-forged knives and custom objects in only the highest quality materials is the core of Leszek Sikon’s practice. Material culture is also crucial to his practice; the right piece of stock, with the right history, can reinforce the message his artwork conveys.
Christian Neuman is a Luxembourg born artist and filmmaker best known for his work in the fashion industry as the creative director behind several brands and campaigns. Skin Walker is his feature film debut.
Super-complexity drives Alves Ludovico’s fascination. He enhances the limits of his perception and comprehension - his creations represent a personal case study, a segment from the super-complexity that he sorts out and where he finds the tools for meaning.
Uriel Ziv Azancot’s interest lies in the thin line separating vision from castrated vision, light from darkness, movement which symbolizes life from immobility which means death.
Chih Yang Chen works always communicate speculative concepts through subtle symbols. He focuses on exploring the possibilities of subtle relationships that occur between individuals.
Sowerby’s films alternate between narrative, abstract or expressive work. Whether searching archives, collaborating with others, or experimenting with abstractions of light, he’s always starting from varied points.
The intimate reality is the basis on which Anett Posalaki tries to solve the problem of relations inside and outside a personality. Photography is the therapy, the way we process our real and imaginary traumas, stories and identities.
Monica Sousa’s art focuses on spaces that emerge from late capitalism, even though sometimes, there is a movement of nature that re-colonized this same place that was intervened by human hands, an entropy that originates the organic development of nature.
Alisa Aistova investigates human boundaries and transitional states, mutations, injuries, and suppressed desires. In her work are always transformations, mental and physiological: insanity, melancholy, rejection, anguish, violence, isolation, death, and the desire for it.
Charlie Wayne questions the identity and the place of reality. His accumulation and proliferation of photographs question the power of images in our society and echo the mass consumption mechanisms of our world, the duality of the human, between image and identity, passive consumption and a quest for truth.