Basim Magdy
Cassowarius Rex
2015
€1150,00
Lambda print from digital photograph on metallic paper mounted on Sintra.
23.5 × 32 cm
Edition of 10 copies, signed and numbered by the artist
In stock
about this work
The edition displays a picture taken years ago at a natural history museum of a taxidermy Cassowary. Magdy’s recurrent investigation of memory processes lead to his interest in taxidermy as a way of fixing recollections and therefore preventing them from fading. The Cassowary is the third tallest non-flying bird and one of the most colorful, it lives in New Guinea and parts of Australia and it is considered to be a vicious and agressive bird.
about Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy’s films, photographs and paintings stage liminal spaces that make problematic the rigid structures of historical representations. Rather than a nostalgic gazing back in time, Magdy’s works propose a reassessment of our possible futures through a questioning of established readings of the past.
By underlining our daily conscious or unconscious forms engagement with historical discourses, his work points out our participation in the construction of collective readings of the past and projections for the future, therefore signaling our ability to participate in the shaping of the present.
(courtesy of The Green Parrot)
Basim Magdy has had solo exhibitions at venues such as MAXXI, Rome; Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC, Bordeaux and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Z33 Hasselt; The Green Parrot, Barcelona; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Roubaix; and participated in group exhibitions at, among others, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; National Gallery, Prague; and MoMA, New York.
He was also part of international exhibitions such as Surround Audience: 2015 New Museum Triennial, New York; the 13th Istanbul Biennial; the Sharjah Biennial 11, UAE,; La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Magdy was shortlisted for the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre in 2012 and is the winner of Abraaj Art Prize, Dubai and the New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX Film Festival, Copenhagen in 2014. Magdy is also the recipient of the 2016 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year award.
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