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
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exhibited at
Haunted Lotus
Date
10 May 2012 - 12 May 2012
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Khadim Ali’s miniature painting work explores complex moral themes of good and evil, set in the anarchic civil war in Afghanistan, where ethnic and religious bigotry are means to an end. Khadim Ali interweaves past and present symbols — including the Taliban’s destruction in 2001 of the Bamiyan Buddhas sculpted by his Hazara ancestors — to explore coexisting layers of the experience of intervention and religious extremism in a world distorted by warped ideologies.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/166-haunted-lotus-2012
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

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