Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)
Curated by Ashok Adicéam
September 15 - November 12, 2010 Back to Exhibitions
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Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud), will be on view at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery from September 15 through October 15, 2010 and displays the work of both established and emerging artists who work with light. The exhibition creates an illuminating dialogue between artists living and working in the East and those from the West and highlights the strength of light to poetically bind different cultures together. The artists in this exhibition share the same quest for the absolute, combining in their techniques and usage of light, words and writing, but also have the same call to transcendence in a romantic posture which confronts the Eastern concept of Icon and the Western sensibility to images. The title Illuminations, the collection of Poems by the famous French poet, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891 ), acts like a guide light for the exhibited contemporary art which, like the language of the bohemian Poet, "will be from the soul for the soul, summing up everything, perfumes and sounds and colours". A spectacle for the intimate light...
Ashok Adicéam is a French national born in 1970 in New Delhi. At the age of seven, he moved to France with the rest of his family. In Paris, he received training in music from a very young age, and pursued political science at the university. He has served as director in cultural organisations and of international cultural projects in Paris (at the Maison des cultures du Monde and CulturesFrance), in Nigeria, in India, in UK, Edinburg (as director of the French Cultural Centre) and in Miami, Florida where, as the French cultural Attaché, he was strongly committed to Miami Art Basel.
Through fifteen years of such variegated and rich experiences, he has developed an unusual set of knowledge matrices from the specific arenas where he performed a yeoman’s job as a “cultural mediator”. Venice was, until last May, his base for two years. There, he specialized in projects related to the contemporary art world, in his capacity of Head of development at the Palazzo Grassi. An art advisor, he has forged a position for himself as an independent curatorial researcher - he is curator of the recent exhibition Hope! from Giacometti to Murakami in France– and in organizing events in contemporary art allying industry with the world of contemporary art, design, literature, music and cinema.
Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)
Curated by Ashok Adicéam
September 15 - November 12, 2010
Curated by Ashok AdicéamIlluminations (After Arthur Rimbaud), will be on view at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery from September 15 through October 15, 2010 and displays the work of both established and emerging artists who work with light. The exhibition creates an illuminating dialogue between artists living and working in the East and those from the West and highlights the strength of light to poetically bind different cultures together. The artists in this exhibition share the same quest for the absolute, combining in their techniques and usage of light, words and writing, but also have the same call to transcendence in a romantic posture which confronts the Eastern concept of Icon and the Western sensibility to images. The title Illuminations, the collection of Poems by the famous French poet, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891 ), acts like a guide light for the exhibited contemporary art which, like the language of the bohemian Poet, "will be from the soul for the soul, summing up everything, perfumes and sounds and colours". A spectacle for the intimate light...
Ashok Adicéam is a French national born in 1970 in New Delhi. At the age of seven, he moved to France with the rest of his family. In Paris, he received training in music from a very young age, and pursued political science at the university. He has served as director in cultural organisations and of international cultural projects in Paris (at the Maison des cultures du Monde and CulturesFrance), in Nigeria, in India, in UK, Edinburg (as director of the French Cultural Centre) and in Miami, Florida where, as the French cultural Attaché, he was strongly committed to Miami Art Basel.
Through fifteen years of such variegated and rich experiences, he has developed an unusual set of knowledge matrices from the specific arenas where he performed a yeoman’s job as a “cultural mediator”. Venice was, until last May, his base for two years. There, he specialized in projects related to the contemporary art world, in his capacity of Head of development at the Palazzo Grassi. An art advisor, he has forged a position for himself as an independent curatorial researcher - he is curator of the recent exhibition Hope! from Giacometti to Murakami in France– and in organizing events in contemporary art allying industry with the world of contemporary art, design, literature, music and cinema.