Khaled Hourani and Andrew Conio on Picasso in Palestine, January 9th, 4.30-6pm

A Prior #22 | Picasso in Palestine | 280 pages English/Arabic A Prior #22 | Picasso in Palestine November 2011

Launches all over Europe :

25 November 2011, 12h | KASKcafé | School of Arts (KASK) Ghent, Belgium
Special event: Khaled Jarrar stamps not only your magazine but also your passport at the launch day of the publication.

26 November 2011, 17h | Beursschouwburg Brussels, Belgium
Special event: Khaled Jarrar stamps not only your magazine but also your passport at the launch day of the publication.

25, 26, 27 November 2011 | Miss Read | KW Berlin, Germany (Friday, 25.11.2011, 3–9 pm, Saturday, 26.11.2011, 3–9 pm, Sunday, 27.11.2011, 12–7 pm)

coming soon: A Prior’s new website with an additional artists projects, blogs and news

The 22nd edition of A Prior Magazine is dedicated to Picasso in Palestine, an artistic project initiated by Palestinian artist Khaled Hourani (artistic director of the International Academy of Art Palestine) and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In June 2011, Pablo Picasso’s iconic work Buste de Femme (1943, part of the Van Abbemuseum collection) undertook a journey from Eindhoven to Ramallah, where it was exhibited for three weeks. Preceding this border-crossing loan agreement were two years of extensive research and negotiations in the legal, artistic and administrative fields.
A Prior has made a critical, multifaceted report of the journey of Picasso’s Buste de Femme to Palestine and back, exposing relations between art, politics and geography along the way – thanks to contributions from more then 15 authors and artists- resulting in a unique 280 full-colour pages edition, brought to you in two languages: English and Arabic.

Please download our bilingual Aprior22_newsletter.pdf

Picasso in Palestine

A modern icon to be exhibited in Ramallah International Academy of Art Palestine
24 June – 20 July 2011

ONLINE PREVIEW: See pictures of the master piece on the road to Ramallah

On Friday 24 June a special exhibition opens at the International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP). As an artistic conception of artistic director Khaled Hourani, for the very first time an original painting by Pablo Picasso will be on show in Ramallah. The work Buste de Femme (1943) is one of the most iconic works from the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and has been exhibited throughout the world in the past 50 years. On the basis of a loan request made to the museum by the International Art Academy Palestine (IAAP) in July 2009 and following extensive research, the work will travel to Ramallah in June 2011. It will be exhibited in a specially constructed room inside the IAAP from 24 June to 20 July. On 25 and 26 June, the IAAP will host the Picasso Talks, a special programme in which international speakers are invited to respond to the artistic, political and social implications surrounding the Picasso exhibition and process of taking it to Ramallah. Internationally acclaimed film director Rashid Masharawi is making a documentary of the process of preparing, transporting and exhibiting the work, and this film will be widely distributed in 2012. Belgian art magazine A Prior will publish an issue dedicated to this project in October 2011.

Follow the project’s live updates also on facebook

Press_release_Picasso_in_Palestine_160611.pdf

2011_press_arab_picasso_in_palestine.pdf

Persbericht_Picasso_in_Palestina_160611.pdf

Today 27 May 2011 opening of West Bank Walls,

an exhibition by Sander Buyck for Netwerk and A Prior Magazine.

at 8.30PM with a conversation between artists Sander Buyck, Renzo Martens and curator Remco de Blaaij (Van Abbemuseum). Moderation by Els Roelandt (A Prior Magazine).

Location: Netwerk, Houtkaai, Aalst (Belgium)

Special editions by Sander Buyck exclusively for A Prior

West Bank Walls, Martyr Poster Nr 1, 2010, 30X42cm | edition of 25 copies | 100 €

West Bank Walls, Ramallah Downtown, 2010, 30X42cm | edition of 25 copies | 100 €

West Bank Walls, Ramallah Refugee Camp, 2010, 30X42cm | edition of 25 copies | 100 €

Three photographs by promising young photographer Sander Buyck taken on a special trip to the West Bank, Palestine, exclusively on sale at A Prior.
The photographs are part of a larger, beautiful and urgent, photographic project resulting from his two month travels through Palestine, especially commissioned by this magazine on the occasion of our upcoming publication: A Prior Magazine issue #22: Picasso in Palestine.

Buyck’s artistic project will be partly published in A Prior Magazine #22 and will also be on view in a soloshow at Netwerk, Aalst (27.05 – 19.06).

To help us create this important issue of A Prior Magazine that documents important artistic movements in the Middle East and the voyage of Picasso’s 1943 painting ‘Buste de Femme’ to Ramallah, Sander Buyck made an edition of 3 individual photographs.

“Picasso in Palestine” is an initiative of the International Art Academy Palestine in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum and A Prior Magazine.

Many thanks in advance for your kind support to this project!

For more information please contact us

Experience it! A Prior Magazine issue #21 (Danai Anesiadou, Gabriel Lester, Luis Jacob)

front & back cover APM#21

A Prior #21 investigates performance practices, the unique experience, the active positions of the artist and the audience in relation to current techniques of assemblage, association, reproduction, sharing, collage and, specifically, linking.

Featured artists:
Danai Anesiadou, Gabriel Lester in collaboration with Raimundas Malasauskas, and Luis Jacob

Cover image: Happy To Serve You by Danai Anesiadou
Back cover: Image from Gabriel Lester’s personal collection
280 pages full color, 20euro

Essays by Lou Forster on The Other Tradition (Wiels, Brussels), Natasa Petresin on Les Promesses du Passé (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Defne Ayas on Performa (New York). And a contribution by Ruth Hege Halstensen on Tino Sehgal

Insert: Album IX: special 16-page booklet in full color by Luis Jacob

And more essays by Anselm Franke, Donatien Grau, John Menick, Vivian Rehberg, Dieter Roelstraete, Michael Van den Abeele, Jan Verwoert and Andros Zins-Browne

Check the website and our Facebook page for updates, additional information and more content

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A PRIOR Magazine issue #20

Entirely dedicated to research in the arts,

with texts and visual contributions by:
Ruth Buchanan, Victor Burgin, Mekhitar Garabedian, Ian Kiaer, Vincent Meessen

A PRIOR Magazine issue #19

Olivia Plender, Kara Walker, Stefaan Dheedene

Contributions by: Angus Cameron, Anna Colin, Rudi Laermans, Frank Maes, Dieter Roelstraete, Marina Vishmidt, Robert Storr. And Goldin+Senneby, Pablo Bronstein, Runo Lagomarsino in collaboration with Olivia Plender

Guest editors: Anna Colin, Kim Einarsson, Nancy Hoffmann, Olivia Plender