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Palestinian art focuses
on the liberation and struggle of the Palestinian people.
Made in Palestine is the first comprehensive exhibition in
the United States
devoted to the Palestinian art.
The exhibition has the work of 22 Palestinian artists from two
generations, one modernist and one post modernist. It opened on May
3rd 2003 and it will remain on view through September 2003 (Station
1502 Alabama at La Branch, Houston, Texas 77004).
The artists were selected during a month visit by members of the
Ineri curatorial staff.
In the exhibition it will be possible to appreciate many techniques
and mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, performance,
textiles, ceramics and photography from different schools:
surrealism, social realism, abstract, expressionism, arte povera,
and installation arte.
The exhibition includes a small number of Palestinian artists living
in Jordan, Syria and the United States.
It gives to the visitors a clear idea about the modern history of
the Palestinian people from the Nakba of 1948 and
their dream for their homeland. It is easier to understand with this
display of art the forced dispossession of their land and it
explains how the Palestinians live under Israeli occupation.
Most of the artists represented in this exhibition live under
military occupation or in exile. Their art shouts their experiences
and expresses their pain for all the innocent people who died for
their land, their rights and their freedom.
For more information, call (713) 529-6900 or visit the website,
www.artcarmuseum.com Fax:
713-529-6960
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