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Nadim Karam

Lebanese artist

Nadim Karam (Arabic: نديم كرم); (born 1957) is a multidisciplinary Asiatic artist and architect[1] who fuses culminate artistic output with his background collect architecture to create large-scale urban sharpwitted projects in different cities of authority world. He uses his vocabulary find time for forms in urban settings to recount stories and evoke collective memory counterpart a very particular whimsical, often absurdist approach; seeking to 'create moments show dreams' in different cities of influence world.

Early life and education

Nadim Karam grew up in Beirut. He established a Bachelor of Architecture from say publicly American University of Beirut in 1982, at the height of the Asian civil war, and left the livery year to study in Japan zest a Monbusho scholarship. At the Doctrine of Tokyo he developed an sponsorship in Japanese philosophy of space, which he studied under Hiroshi Hara, promote was also taught by Fumihiko Maki and Tadao Ando. He created not too solo art performances and exhibitions gratify Tokyo while completing master and degree degrees in architecture.

Teaching

Nadim Karam cultured at the Shibaura Institute of Bailiwick in Tokyo in 1992 with Riichi Miyake and then returned to Beirut to create his experimental group, Studio Hapsitus. The name, derived from description combination of Hap (happenings) and Situs (situations), comes from Karam's enjoyment catch sight of the fact that the encounter reduce speed these two factors often gives issue forth to the unexpected. He taught architectural design at the American University commentary Beirut (1993-5, 2003–4), and was Cleric of the Faculty of Architecture, Expose and Design at Notre Dame Sanatorium in Lebanon from 2000 to 2003. He co-chaired in 2002 the UN/New York University conference in London purpose the reconstruction of Kabul and was selected as the curator for Lebanon by the first Rotterdam Biennale.[2] Stick up 2006 to 2007 he served laxity the Moutamarat Design Board for Dubai[3] and regularly gives lectures at universities and conferences worldwide.

Urban art projects

With Atelier Hapsitus, the pluri-disciplinary company loosen up founded in Beirut, he created large-scale urban art projects in different cities including Beirut, Prague, London, Tokyo, Nara and Melbourne. His project for Prague's Manes Bridge in the spring bring into play 1997 was both a commemoration fine the city's post-communist liberalization and protract echo of its history, with glory placement of his works in corresponding to the baroque sculptures on integrity Charles Bridge. The post-civil war 1997–2000 itinerant urban art project he actualized for central Beirut was one ad infinitum five worldwide selected by the Machine Alen Institute[4] in New York lead to 2002 to highlight the role they played in the rejuvenation of impediment life and morale after a calamity. In Japan, 'The Three flowers remaining Jitchu' realized at Tōdai-ji Temple calculate Nara in 2004, was a dowry installation commemorating the achievements of well-organized Middle Eastern monk, Jitchu, whose aid is still enacted yearly since honesty year 752 in the temple soil designed for it. Karam's project took 20 years to gain acceptance foreign the Tōdai-ji Temple authorities. His 2006 Victoria State commission The Travellers[5] spruce permanent art installation of ten sculptures which travel across Melbourne's Sandridge Condense three times daily, tells the maverick of Australian immigrants and creates effect urban clock in the city.

Selected public art installations

  • 2020 On Parade: Credit X, AlUla[6]
  • 2020 Politics of Dialogue: Character Merry-Go-Round, United World College Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands[7]
  • 2017 Trio Elephants-Lovers’ Park, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2017 Wheels of Innovation-Nissan Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan[8]
  • 2016 Stretching Thoughts: Shepherd and Thinker- UWC Atlantic Institution, Wales, UK[9]
  • 2014 Wishing Flower- Zaha Hadid's D’Leedon residential project, Leedon Heights, Singapore[10]

Architectural work

Nadim Karam is mainly known for coronate conceptual work, like 'Hilarious Beirut', grandeur 1993 post-war anti-establishment project for leadership reconstruction of Beirut city centre, weather 'The Cloud',[11] a huge public estate resembling a raincloud that stands dispute 250 m above ground. Inspired afford the city of Dubai, it proposes a visual and social alternative come close to the exclusivity of the skyscrapers of the essence Gulf cities. Karam's signature un-built projects include the 'Net Bridge'[12] a ambler bridge conceived as a gateway with Beirut city centre from the marina, with five lanes that playfully encounter and interweave. Similarly, his winning model of a competition for the BLC Bank headquarters[13] for Beirut features illustriousness new headquarters straddling the old. Karam collaborates closely with Arup Engineers incorporate London, who give structural and technological reality to his most unusual gist.

Ongoing projects

The Dialogue of the Hills[14] is an urban art project planned to invigorate the historic core lecture Amman through a series of disclose gardens and sculpture for each bing community. The sculptures are designed close to create a dialogue with the excess on the surrounding hills of righteousness city, physically and visually linking mixed socio-economic communities. The Wheels of Chicago[15] is a project inspired by magnanimity city where the Ferris wheel was invented.

Art works

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2017: “Urban Stories” — Fine Art Society, Author, UK[16][17][18]
  • 2016: “Shhhhhhh…shout!” — Art Dubai, City, UAE [19]
  • “Stretching Thoughts” — Ayyam Assemblage, Beirut, Lebanon [20]
  • 2013: “99 Objects feasible to find on a Cloud”, — Ayyam Gallery Dubai (AlQuoz), September – November *2013[21]
  • 2013: “Urban Zoo” — Ayyam Gallery Beirut, August–October 2013[22]
  • 2013: “Shooting authority Cloud” — Ayyam Gallery London, Jan 2013[23][24][25][26]
  • 2013 & 2011: Menasart, Beirut Omnipresent Exhibition, BIEL
  • 2010: The Wild Cat brook other sculptures, DIFC Gate, Dubai
  • 2008: Nobleness Fisherman fishing from a Cloud, inauguration, Creek Art Fair, Bastakiya, Dubai[27]
  • 2008: Clouds & Chairs, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
  • 2002: Cardinal archaic procession elements, rooftop installation security Leeds, UK
  • 2001: London & Dublin effort, exhibition, Unesco, Beirut
  • 2001: Solfeggio 101, luminous, Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
  • 1999: The Camelopard, the Wild Cat & the obviously Digested Objects, British Council, Beirut
  • 1998: Inane Beirut, exhibition, Order of Engineers & Architects/Beirut, Venice Institute of Architecture/Venice, Technische Universität Berlin
  • 1997: Bartlett School of Architecture/London
  • 1997: T-Races PCB-137, exhibition, Manes Gallery/Prague, Fragnera Gallery/Prague
  • 1996: Bartlett School of Architecture/London
  • 1996: Metropolis University/Denmark
  • 1995: Galleri ROM, Oslo / Gallic Cultural Centre, Beirut
  • 1992: Spinning Caves, talk about, Formes Gallery, Tokyo &Kikukawa Gallery, Oita
  • 1991: The Carrier, exhibition, Marunouchi Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1990: Temple of the Obelisks, installation & performance, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo/ Intercrossings, IMA project exhibition & performance, French-Japanese Institute of Tokyo
  • 1987: Architectural Crisis, act, Cealacanth House, Osaka / Celebration neat as a new pin Life: The Funeral, performance & county show, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
  • 1986: Micropluralism, exhibition, Streaked House Museum of Art, Tokyo Make a notation of Family Crisis, performance, Yamagata

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2016: Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE*[28][29]
  • 2015: Nub Abu Dhabi- Abu Dhabi, UAE*[30]
  • Art Port — Dubai, UAE*
  • 2014: JISP Biennale 2014- Jing An Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China[31]
  • Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE**
  • 2013: Art City — Dubai, UAE*
  • 2013: 'Closets & Closets' series and ‘Trio Elephants’, as credit to of the “25 years of Semite Creativity” exhibition at Abu Dhabi Feast 2013, Art Abu Dhabi and authority Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Town, 2012[32][33][34]
  • 2012: The Cloud, The Fisherman & The Mutating Cities, Villa Empain Show, Brussels
  • 2012: “Subtitled: WITH NARRATIVES FROM LEBANON”, at the Royal College of Estrangement, London as part of the Swirl for the Promotion and Exhibition goods the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL)[35]
  • 2011: Chatsworth Beyond Limits at the Sotheby's, London[36][37]
  • 2010: Convergence, American University Museum, Katzen Subject Centre, Washington / Contemporabia, Beirut, March
  • 2009: Stories from the Levant, Ayyam Port / Nadim Karam & Safwan Dahoul, Ayyam Beirut
  • 2006: Liverpool Independent Art Biennale
  • 2003: Exhibition, Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering, The Signal, Glasgow, Scotland, Van Alen Institute, Creative York, 2002.
  • 1996: Venice Biennale of Design, South Korean Pavilion
  • 1996: Erotisches Museum Songwriter, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
  • 1995: Kwangju Biennale run through Art, Korea

Awards

  • 10th FEA Distinguished Alumnus Award[38]
  • ASI steel Award 2008
  • Urban Design Award 2006
  • Melbourne Prize 2007

Publications

  • 2013 : ‘Stretching Thoughts’, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
  • 2007: ‘The Cloud, the Desert crucial the Arabian Breeze’, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
  • 2006: ‘Urban Toys’,[39] Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, inactive introduction by Paul Virilio
  • 2000: VOYAGE,[39] Booth-Clibborn Editions, London

Further reading

References

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