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NEW
YORK
Ethan
Cohen
Fine
Arts
is
pleased
to
announce
The
Fabric
of
Life,
an
installation
of
video
and
prints
by
Ali Hossaini.
In
a
2010
review,
the
New
York
Times
described
Hossaini
as
a
"bio-chemist
turned
philosopher
turned
television
producer
turned
visual
poet."
His
richly
colored,
sensual
imagery
contains
surprisingly
cerebral
currents
that
draw
on
science,
philosophy
and
spirituality.
The
Fabric
of
Life
questions
the
structure
of
experience
by
probing
its
fundamental
elements.
Undulating
forms
representing
thought,
perception
and
feeling
dissolve
into
hallucinatory
passages
of
pure
color,
taking
on
abstract,
musical
qualities.
Shot
in
Iceland,
Greenland,
Italy,
France,
Madagascar,
Burma
and
other
locales,
the
installation
explores
themes
ranging
from
the
death
of
the
artist¡¯s
mother
to
the
evolution
of
the cosmos.
Live
action
is
combined
with
3D
and
generative
animation.
Included
are
excerpts
from
three
video
cycles,
Epiphany,
Ouroboros
and
Oceanic
Verses
with
presentations
of
Unperception
Now,
Memory
Begins
and
4Monkeys.
A
special
version
of
Executive
Privilege,
a
3D
tribute
to
Chinese
artist
Ai
Weiwei,
will
be
shown.
Works by Ali Hossaini
have
been
exhibited
in
venues
such
as
the Lincoln
Center,
the
Museum
of
the
Moving
Image,
Anthology Film
Archives
and
the
Montreal
Festival
of
Film
on
Art.
The
opera Oceanic
Verses,
a
collaboration
with
composer
Paola
Prestini, opens
at
the
Kennedy
Center
in
June,
2012.
Exhibition
opening
November
10,
6
¨C
8pm
Artist
talk
November
12,
3
pm
Location:
Ethan
Cohen
Fine
Arts,
14
Jay
Street,
Tribeca,
New
York
City
ETHAN COHEN FINE ARTS
is
based
in
Tribeca,
New
York
City.
Its
director, Ethan
Cohen, cultivates emerging
and
established
artists from
China,
Japan,
Thailand,
Russia,
and
the
Americas.
In
the
1980¡¯s
he
spearheaded
the
Chinese
Avant
Garde
in
America, giving
Ai
Weiwei
his
first
solo
exhibition.
He
serves
as
advisor
and
curator to
museums
and
biennales,
including We
Are
Your Future
at
the
2007
Moscow
Biennale.
He
describes
Ali
Hossaini¡¯s
work
as,
¡°¡original,
poetic
and
highly
sophisticated,
with technical
mastery
of
the
medium. The
Fabric
of
Life
is
a
natural
progression
in
my
pursuit
of
new
ideas
and
fresh
artistic vision.¡±
For
interviews,
high©\res
images
&
more
information
:
Jacky
Agudelo & Sal
Cataldi
,
jacky@cataldipr.com, sal@cataldipr.com,
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