This exhibition held at the recently opened Jessica Carlisle Gallery presents a variety of artistic responses to the acts of iconoclasm carried out by so-called Islamic State ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Curator Erin Thompson, Professor of Art Crime at the City University of New York, has gathered a collection of artists and scholars to show some of the creative measures being used to protest about the preventable loss.
Cast of bullet damaged ancient relief from Iraqi Kurdistan by Piers Secunda.
The ground floor space includes photography, video, paint and sculpture with downstairs reserved for a powerful 11 minute film, The Quake by Matteo Barzini with music by Ennio Morricone.
Other exhibits include Dimitra Ermeidou’s large format photographs of ancient Greek reliefs defaced by earlier iconoclasts, a selection from Erin Thompson of the images shared on social media of illicitly traded objects
and a model of the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, now very damaged, made by Tmam Alkhidaiwi Alnabilsi, a Syrian refugee currently living in the Zaatari Camp outside Jordan.
The 2 first photos are courtesy of Jessica Carlisle Gallery.as mine weren’t clear enough.
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