حكايات زرقاء تعرض فى نيويورك وعلى هامش المعرض إحتفاء ب"هال كريما" مخرج سانكوفا.

الدعوة للأصدقاء والمهتمين لحضور حفل الافتتاح لمعرضى الفردى فى جاليرى إسكوتو بنيويورك،
الافتتاح يوم الخميس 1/ أبريل من الساعة السادسة الى الثامنة مساء... يستمر المعرض من ا أبريل الى 8 مايو.

تتخلل المعرض عدة فعاليات على رأسها حفل الاحتفاء بالمخرج الثيوبى هال كريما.



SKOTO GALLERY 529 West 20th Street, 5FL.

New York, NY 10011 212-352 8058

[email protected] www.skotogallery.com









Blue Tales

Khalid Kodi

Recent Works

April 1 – May 8, 2010

Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Blue Tales, an exhibition of recent works by the Sudanese-born artist Khalid Kodi. This will be his second solo show at the gallery. The reception is Thursday, April 1, 6-8pm and the artist will be present.

Khalid Kodi’s recent work continues his exploration of strategies that fuse personal history and experience with his desire to portray social, spiritual and utopian transformations. He creates works that are infused with strong references to magical realism and deep concern for the aesthetic struggle between form and concept. He uses contemporary themes drawn from the rich story-telling traditions of his homeland to construct intricately layered and textured pictures that demonstrate a mastery of design, color, composition and draftsmanship. The often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes in his work are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. His landscapes are not representations of nature in the traditional sense of the term, rather they are abstract expressions of new artistic and spiritual possibilities, using planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields that are at once both a direct expression ! of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature.

Khalid Kodi, is a prolific artist who has emerged as a central figure of his generation working on multi/cross-cultural concepts that focus on the milestones of human life. His past series have included works that poignantly address human phenomena such as wars, genocide and their impact on human societies. These works incorporate sculpture, paintings, installations and environmental sites, and possess unique qualities of ripeness and continuous growth. They convey a sense of mystery that reveals the complex context of his formal and conceptual innovations, and allude to a balanced art, not in the sense that it is stabilized or moderate in its effects, but that opposed qualities are joined in a scrupulously controlled play. He is inventive and original in many different aspects of his art, evocative of the power of art to speak to us purely on human terms.

Born in the Sudan, Khalid Kodi grew up in the city of Wad Madina, where his family was prominent in the arts. He obtained his undergraduate degree in painting from the College of Fine Arts, The Institute of Polytechnic Colleges, Khartoum in 1987 before leaving for the US in the early 90s. He obtained his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston in 1993. As an African artist living in America, he has embraced both cultures, and his work is a conversation of elements from both. He is an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and a resident artist in the African American Master Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP), Department of African American Studies, Northeastern University. Khalid Kodi is a widely exhibited artist whose works are in several private and public collections in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas.


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http://www.skotogallery.com/next-exhibition
امنياتى بالتوفيق يا خالد ....




الريح كودى ..

شكرا يالريح كودى،

لازم تشوف سانكوفا لو ماشفتو لسه..

هنا معظمه...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfAYqTxD_m8&feature=Play...9&index=0&playnext=1

والأحتفاء بكريما سيكون بمناسبة فيلمه الجديد... سارفق المعلومات لاحقا...

تحياتى وحبى.

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العزيز خالد
كل الشكر على ارفاق اللنك و سانكوفا..
فى انتظار المزيد عن المعرض والفعاليات المصاحبه..








بالتوفيق ..
الريح كودى

Up and best of luck

شكرا ياندى على،
وشرفتونا والأخت زينب أييقا والانسه نجوى نواره وهشام فى الأفتتاح.







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استاذنا التشكيلى الكبير محمد عمر خليل ايضا كان حاضرا!

إعلان الاحتفاء بكريما:


Horn of Africa Arts Council and Skoto Gallery
cordially Invite You

to an Evening with acclaimed Film-maker

Haile Gerima

in celebration of the NYC Premiere of his latest film


TEZA

Thursday, April 8, 6-8pm

at

SKOTO GALLERY
529 W 20th Street
New York, NY 10011

phone:1 212 352 8058
fax: 1 212 352 3119

[email protected]
www.skotogallery.com



Sponsors: Bati Restaurant; Sheba Tej/Tsion Enterprises LLC; Settepani



Haile Gerima
Ethiopian-born, world-renowned independent filmmaker Haile Gerima studied at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, and subsequently at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Gerima has taught film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. since 1975, and has been producing independent films of distinction for over 35 years, including his groundbreaking 1993 film Sankofa. This historically inspired dramatic tale of African resistance to slavery was called “poetic and precisely detailed” by the New York Times. Gerima’s earlier works include the films Harvest: 3000 Years, which Martin Scorsese described as having, “a particular kind of urgency which few pictures possess;” and Bush Mama, which the Washington Post reported, “crackle[d] with energy,” with “fury shak[ing] the very frame.” TEZA is Gerima's l! atest feature release, his eleventh cinematic production and seventh d ramatic film. It tells a story of hope, loss and reminiscence through the eyes of Anberber, an idealistic, young doctor and intellectual, displaced from his homeland of Ethiopia for many years. TEZA is currently on exhibition in NYC, at Lincoln Plaza Cinema, (1886 Broadway, at 62nd Street). The film opens in Seattle on April 16th and in France on April 28th.

Check www.tezathemovie.com for show times

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خسارة الدمورية والخشب يا كودي..هههههه

شنو ما عزمتونا؟؟ على اساس ما بنفهم في الفن التشكيكي؟؟

بالتوفيق يا حبيب..

تهانينا على الافتتاح الناجح.

تحياتى للأخ حسين وشكرى..
وإنته من زمن الدمورية والخشب ياخ؟

اتمنى أن تشرفنا غدا فى الاحتفاء بالمخرج الاثيوبى هال كريما بمناسب فيلمه الجديد والذى حاز على "الاوسكار الافريقى":

http://www.tadias.com/03/09/2009/qa-haile-gerima-and-aaron-arefe/

العزيزه ندى،

شكرا لك وللأنسه نجوى نواره الدعم.

الحضور فى الاحتفاء بهال كريما.




جانب من الحضور.




اللجنة المنظمة.




الفنان هال كريما.




كريما أثناء الحوار.




تشكيليين مخضرمين.

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الجزء الأول من حوار رويتر:



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الحره:





حوار رويتر مع منظم المعرض ومدير الجاليرى:



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Kodi's BLUE TALES Closing Reception
May 1 2010
5:30pm
to 7:30pm

SKOTO GALLERY

529 West 20th Street, 5FL.

New York, NY 10011 {212-352 8058}

www.skotogallery.com [email protected]






Blue Tales, mixed media on paper, 13”x26”



Blue Tales



Khalid Kodi



Recent Works



April 1 – May 8, 2010



BLUE TALES, new works by Khalid Kodi, is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Skoto Gallery.

The artist will be present at the closing reception, May 1 , 5:30 – 7:30.



The fantastical vista is brighter in Khalid Kodi’s revisit to paintings inspired by stories from a childhood in the Sudan. Now there is a more sophisticated blending and layering born of a longer history of personal dreams, memories, and the events of life. And the artist also works from a more considered homage to the aesthetics of European abstraction and abstract impressionism. The work in the exhibit BLUE TALES parallels the haunting refrains of “Shades of delight…Afro blue”; and like Mongo Santamaria’s jazz classic “Afro Blue” (best known in its arrangement by John Coltrane), these new story tellings keep to a complex yet smooth beat.



The prolific artist, long recognized internationally, references magical realism in his mixed media and collage on paper works selected for this exhibit. The stories once his, now belong to the viewer of these extraordinarily layered landscapes of the mind with their intricate texturing, array of symbols and figures of humans, crocodiles, and trees, and synthesizing of colors and rhythms.



Born in the Sudan, Khalid Kodi immigrated to the United States in the early 90s. As an African living in America, he has embraced both cultures, and his work is a conversation of elements from both. He is an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College as well as a resident artist in the African American Master Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP), and an adjunct of the Department of African American Studies, Northeastern University.



Kay Bourne

Art Critic

thanks Nada,

I hope to see all our friends in NY tomorrow

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