Solo Exhibition by Khalil Rabah
Beirut Art Center invites you to the opening of an exhibition in the presence of the artist Khalil Rabah, with his most recent art work titled Review.
Review contains three distinct sections; however, the intersection of shared themes allows the works to be interpreted as part of a larger whole. In this issue is a work based on various aspects of The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind and specifically its Summer 2011 newsletter, which reviews the institutional history of the museum. Another Geography is a work derived from the 3rd Riwaq Biennale, which takes the fractured landscape of Palestine contextualized within the global art world, and presents it from another perspective as a pixelated field of postcards. The section of the exhibition titled Two Exhibitions is a collection of photo-realist paintings documenting a previous solo exhibition by the artist titled Art Exhibition: Ready-made Representations: 1954-2010. Like a palimpsest, Art Exhibition is itself a collection of photo-realist paintings documenting nearly sixty years of exhibition making practices in different locations around the world.
About the Artist
Khalil Rabah was born in 1961 in Jerusalem and studied architecture and fine arts at the University of Texas. A prolific founder of institutions, Rabah co-founded the Al Ma‘mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem in 1998, the Riwaq Biennial in 2005, and The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind. He is also a member since 2010 of the curriculum committee of Home Workspace Program, a pioneering educational initiative in Lebanon launched by Ashkal Alwan.
