Ali Baba Aurang b.

  • Artist (Painter)
Ali Baba Aurang is an established calligraphic painter, having practiced for almost 20 years. He studied calligraphy in Iran where he lived for 18 years during The Afghan Civil War.
Tags: Calligraphy
exhibited at
Refer to Source
Date
27 May 2011 - 18 June 2011
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Refer to Source connects two artists who use age-old stories to reflect on contemporary geo-politics. Ali Baba Aurang is Afghanistan’s finest advocate of siamask or ‘practice in black’ calligraphy and Barbara Campbell is a well-regarded Sydney-based performance artist.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/128-refer-to-source-ali-baba-aurang-and-barbara-campbell
exhibited at
The Force of Forgetting
Date
19 March 2011 - 23 April 2011
Place
Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, NSW
Description

The Force of Forgetting: 'From the beginning of the history of Afghanistan, the Hazara people have been persecuted and massacred and have been living under sectarian, ethnic oppressive regimes. ...The force of forgetting doesn’t mean to forget a history of pain, but the inability to express that memory. For this we need a silent artistic language to speak about these suppressed memories.’ Khadim Ali, Karachi, 2011

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/141-the-force-of-forgetting
exhibited at
The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul
Date
4 September 2010 - 30 October 2010
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

The difficulties faced by artists in Afghanistan will be dramatically on view in the exhibition The Haunted Lotus: Contemporary Art from Kabul. This war-torn country is now known better for anarchy than aesthetics.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/archive/101-2010-exhibitions-projects/103-the-haunted-lotus-contemporary-art-from-kabul