Bøger af Philip Tinari

Erste Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst in Diriyah Die erste Ausgabe der Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale brachte von Dezember 2021 bis März 2022 über sechzig Künstler*innen in Riad, Saudi-Arabien zusammen. Der Titel  Feeling the Stones ist dem chinesischen Sprichwort "crossing the river by feeling the stones" aus der Zeit der Reform- und Öffnungspolitik der späten 1970er-Jahre in China entlehnt und diente als Ausgangspunkt, um über die aktuelle Situation, den Wandel und die damit verbundene Rolle der Kunst in Saudi-Arabien nachzudenken. Mit dabei waren u. a. Monira Al Qadiri, Simon Denny, John Gerard, William Kentridge, Wolfgang Laib, Sir Richard Long, Maha Malluh, Sarah Morris, Timur Si-Qin, Superstudio, Ayman Yossri Daydban, Zeng Yuan. Die Publikation dokumentiert das Biennale-Programm entlang von fünf Kernthemen, die sich mit der zeitgenössischen Kunstszene in Saudi-Arabien, mit der Technologisierung der Welt, mit Spiritualität und Denkräumen im Austausch von globalen und lokalen Gemeinschaften auseinandersetzt. Der reich bebilderte Katalog umfasst Textbeiträge von Philip Tinari, Chris Dercon, Shixuan Luan & Neil Zhang und Wejdan Reda.   The First Biennial for Contemporary Art in Diriyah The first edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale brought together over 60 artists in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2021 to March 2022. The title  Feeling the Stones comes from the Chinese saying "crossing the river by feeling the stones," which was the slogan behind China's policy of reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. Here, it served as a starting point for reflecting on the current situation, social change, and the subsequent role of art in Saudi Arabia. Participants included Monira Al Qadiri, Simon Denny, John Gerrard, William Kentridge, Wolfgang Laib, Sir Richard Long, Maha Malluh, Sarah Morris, Timur Si-Qin, Superstudio, Ayman Yossri Daydban, and Zheng Yuan, among others. The publication documents the biennial program in terms of six core themes that explore Saudi Arabia's contemporary art scene, the latent transformations of global societies, spirituality, and the spaces for thought in the exchanges between global and local communities. The richly illustrated catalogue includes text contributions by Philip Tinari, Chris Dercon, Shixuan Luan & Neil Zhang, and Wejdan Reda.

Hulk Elvis represents for me both Western and Eastern culture, a sense of a guardian, a protector, that at the same time is capable of bringing the house down. -Jeff Koons

To accompany William Kentridge's (born 1955) Notes Towards a Model Opera project in China, the artist's personal notebooks--filled with annotations, drawings and ideas--were meticulously reproduced in this eponymous publication to allow the reader into Kentridge's own thought process. With an in-depth profile of Kentridge by author Andrew Solomon, and essays by China art historian Alfreda Murck and UCCA director Philip Tinari, Notes Towards a Model Opera is a personal exploration of the layered meanings behind the aesthetics and ideals of socialist China as well as an exploration of the artist himself.