Where fashion, fabrics and geometry meet

The Daily Star, May, 2011

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Capturing Lebanon’s moment of glamour ­ and kitsch

F.C. Gundlach’s fashion shots evoke the Middle East’s golden age

Now Lebanon, May, 2011

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NOISE

The Daily Star, February, 2010

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Akram Zaatari

Artforum, January, 2010

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Generation gap

The Review, July, 2008

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Less Roses

Daily Star, August, 2007

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Out of Place

Artforum, April, 2007

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Rivane Neuenschwander

Daily Star, February 26, 2007

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BEIRUT GALLERY WEATHERS WAR

Artnet News, July 27, 2006

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Moving Home(s)

The Daily Star, Saturday, July 22, 2006

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Au Delà des Images (Beyond Images)
works from the Fond National d'Art Contemporian, France

The exhibition Au delà des Images (Beyond Images) is based on the collection of the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (National Fund for Contemporary Art, FNAC) and brings together the works of fifteen French and Lebanese artists. The exhibition constitutes a space where the relationships between art and documentary images are rethought.
The artists presenting their work are particularly interested in inventing new relationships to the real, and in inscribing their research in common reality. However, the resulting photographic works differ from journalistic and documentary images, two genres which are currently popular with the public at large. The reason behind this is that the process of defining an aesthetic language invariably involves a critique of the image.
The relationship image-spectator is entirely based on an ethical engagement through a leeway of signification or the creation of a poetic space, which is difficult to find in the performative efficiency of journalistic photography. The art of the 20 th century and of the 1990's has redefined an ethical dimension of the artwork.
The notions of the individual, of territory, and of the city are at the heart of the images of Valérie Jouve, Michel Lasserre and Paoula Yacoub, Jean Luc Moulène, and Chantal Akerman. For each of these artists, at varying degrees, aesthetic research is thought in relation to political and social factors. However, far from objective photography, they define above all a subjective approach, tied to their personal histories, encounters, and vision of the world.
In the same vein, the works shown in the exhibition allow us to discover personal and intimate territories that acquire their meaning within a much larger context. The exhibition proposes to make manifest this moment in France and in Lebanon where artists are renewing their relationship to the real, with a precise knowledge of the wagers of Modernity and with the awareness of a necessity to reaffirm the critical function of art.

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"Exploring the many meanings of hadith
Latest exhibition at Galerie Sfeir-Semler tackles the art of conversation"

Article written by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, published in the DAILY STAR on Thursday, February 02, 2006

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Teaser on Front Page

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"EXPOSITION - De Mona Hatoum à Sophie Calle, en passant par
William Kentridge, Moataz Nasereldin ou Philip-Lorca Di Corcia…
Le « Hadith » des artistes internationaux à la galerie Sfeir-Semler"

Article written by Zená Zalal about the Hadith-Exhibition in Beirut, published in L'ORIENT LE JOUR on 31st January

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An article about the Hadith-Exhibition,
published on 28th January 2006 in the Arabian "AL HAYAT "

Whole article as .pdf-file: alhayat.pdf



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"Die Spuren der Gewalt"

An article about the Arabian Art-Scene, especially the Homeworks-Festival in Beirut, written by Daniel Bax
published on 30th November 2005 in the German "TAZ" (Die Tageszeitung)

Whole article as .pdf-file: taz.pdf


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Flight 405 - Beirut (09. April - 18. June 2005)

Sfeir-Semler takes off in Beirut - Lebanon
written by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Flash Art (issue July - September 2005)

"Flight 405: The Beirut Project," is the debut exhibition at Galerie Sfeir-Semler in Beirut.
Housed in a 1000-square-meter postindustrial space on the city's old quarantine grounds, Galerie Sfeir-Semler is the second of its kind. The first branch has been operating in Hamburg for 20 years, focusing on minimal and conceptual art with an international bent. Under the helm of Andrée Sfeir- Semler, the gallery plans to host three major exhibitions a year.
Like many before her, Sfeir- Semler is hoping to create a hybrid of eastern and western influences by tapping into regional talent and matching it with international contemporaries exploring kindred concerns.
"Flight 405" is successful in that regard, with strong work by video artists Akram Zaatari (Lebanon), AmalKenawy (Egypt), and Emily Jacir (Palestine) well placed among pieces by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alfredo Jaar and Becher school superstar Elger Esser. Like none before her, however, Sfeir-Semler is proceeding with an insistence on high curatorial standards and a refusal to resort to regional cliché. As such, "Flight 405" makes a clean landing, a bit belated maybe, but impressive nonetheless.

This is the link to the Article online
http://www.flashartonline.com/