| The Sessions Contributor(s): Native and Zentwo (Author) |
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ISBN: 8888493220 ISBN-13: 9788888493220 Publisher: Drago OUR PRICE: $26.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 Annotation: Arabic calligraphy is a bridge here, for visual interaction, expressing radical statements, raw emotions or subversive cultural comments. Diversity is not seen as a limit, but an input to dialog. The aim, in this beautiful work, where art, culture and aesthetics combine is to cancel the distance between cultures and lead them to know each other, discovering new affinities. The overcoming of boundaries is evoked in the making of the book, where the artists melted their drawing styles, visions, and ideas. Calligraphy is mixed with the iconic language of the Western world. Linear arabesques and pop images emerge. A new cultural syncretism, where the fine taste for the sign, melts with western iconography. Not only a visual component, but also a message of solidarity, against the paradoxes of globalization: war, intolerance, racism. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Design | Graphic Arts - General - Antiques & Collectibles | Americana - Art | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 709.22 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.78" W x 9.4" (0.71 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drago's 36 chambers series joins an international and multi-cultural tour of street art as it is tossed into a melting pot of calligraphy and graffiti writing from around the world. ZenTwO and Native's work leans towards the raw and finds expression in the uneven in an attempt to access, engage, and integrate vivid emotions in a destabilizing aesthetic. Born in Munich in 1981, half Austrian and half French, ZenTwO was raised between the Middle East and Europe. His partner in crime, NATIVE, was born in Nigeria, studied Arabic graffiti in Egypt and has been based in both Paris and New York. This unlikely and exotic mixture led to the development of their unique iconography that combines calligraphy, illustration, and dynamic paint drips. "As two cosmopolitan kids raised across four different continents, we try to allow all of the cultural influences we've absorbed through the years to represent themselves. These cultures - and their images - embody more than a mere visual stock from which we cut and paste into arbitrary collages. They are instead interactive forces that have formed and shaped our views and personalities. Often, these differing elements of our cultural foundation hurl themselves at one another in violent conflict, not only within the birthing of our work, but also our very experiences as human beings attempting to understand and reconcile ourselves with modern society." |
Contributor Bio(s): Native, Native: - Native and ZenTwo are re-editing the Arabic calligraphy with the street pop culture since 2004. The team, made up of two guys with a background in visual communication, recovers the graphic and gesture tradition of writing, mixing it with the iconic language of the Western World. Linear arabesques and pop images, filtered through their militancy in the Paris street scene. A new cultural syncretism, where the fine taste for the sign, typical of the eastern civilization, melts with the western iconography. After living in Africa, America and Europe the artists learned to manage diversity, contaminating it with the cultural heritage of different countries. The research is still developing in such an hybrid and hostile city such as Paris, now their basis. Here, Native and ZenTwo embarked like new pirates, to overcome the rock of prejudice and explore the charming of diversity. Their natural part is a reality like Drago, privileged observatory on the dynamics and contradiction of the global village for many years. |
