Azad Karim: A Vassel of Insecurity |
Palazzo Mora, Venice (Strada Nova, 3659) |
11th of May – 24th of November 2019 |
Inauguration: Thursday, 9th of May and Friday, 10th of May 2019 from 18.00 to 22.00 at Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo. From 17.00 to 20.00 at the Marinaressa Gardens
The Slovenian artist Azad Karim will be at this year's Venice Biennale, he has been invited to participate by the European Cultural Center (https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/2019art) which during the Biennale is housed in two Venetian palaces, Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo. The center hosts an exhibition of around 160 artists from all over the world and is organized by the non-profit foundation GAA (www.gaafoundation.org). The exhibition is one of the collateral events of the Venice Biennale.
Azad Karim presents the artwork Fragments of Reality which is composed of the installation A Vessel of Insecurity, consisting of hundreds of miniature statues made of clay, and the video projection entitled A Story of Destruction. The artist connects the two works into a single story that spans several years. Karim's participation was supported by the Piran Coastal Galleries and by the gallery curator Nives Marvin, who wrote the text for the exhibition.
Azad Karim was born in 1954 in Arbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. In 1976 he finished his studies with prof. Muhammad Muhradin at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts and the same year he moved to Yugoslavia. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana where in 1980 he graduated in painting with prof. Kiar Mešek and in 1983 he specialized in graphics with prof. Fedele Apollonio. In 1994 he returns to his hometown Arbil after sixteen years, where now he returns regularly. In 1987 he studied in London and in 1996 in Paris. He is a painter, designer and sculptor. Since 1984 he has exhibited independently, participating in several group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. He has received fourteen awards. In 2003 he collaborated with the National Museum of Krakow for the Outlook exhibition, the only complete presentation of contemporary Kurdish art by artists located throughout Europe. He lives and works in Ajdovščina since 1984.
