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Bassam el Baroni writer and curator, Alexandria, Egypt February 15-March 14, 2007 |
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Bassam
el Baroni is an independent writer/curator
based in Alexandria, Egypt. In late 2005, he Co-founded Alexandria
Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), a collectively run artist-led space,
the first in Egypt's second largest city. As a writer he has written
texts on the work of many artists, including Susan Hefuna, Amina
Mansour, Mona Marzouk and Karim Rashid. His writings have also appeared
in a number of local and international publications such as Bidoun,
A-42 Arte and Culturas, and Canvas. His recent curatorial projects
include the exhibition Family – You, Me and the Trajectories
of a Post-Everything Era, PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion,
Bern, Switzerland (2006) and Prototypes for an Advanced Outdoor
Visual Culture (2006), an art in public spaces project in Alexandria
with the artist duo Winter/Hörbelt and art students from Alexandria
and Frankfurt. ACAF during a presentation by Dutch curator and writer, Julia van Mourik. |