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Friday, December 10, 2010

Contemporary Arab Art: Walid Raad

This is amazing.

Go to the Atlas Group's website, and pick Archive > A > Raad.





Raad placed colored dots over the bullet marks in buildings and the urban environment in Lebanon in the 80s, based on the tracemarks of the bullets which often etched various colors into the buildings.

He realized later that the color of the bullets corresponded to their country of origin, and he had created an archive of the countries that sold ammunition during the war.

More soon - on Raad, whose work has been a joyful discovery.
So much to do, so much to prove, so little time.

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