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26.06.2010 Carbon 12 in THE National "Picture Perfect-Dubai's artistic Summer", by Ed Lake
Carbon 12’s new show, Blue Skie’d and Clear, approaches photography from more of an aesthete’s perspective. Maria Maeser pastes photos of the night sky on light boxes and then picks out unlikely constellations – a donkey, a large-headed child – using the kind of wobbly, pixilated line familiar from experiments with MS Paint.
Jamie Baldridge bridges the distances between Edwardian portraiture, early surrealist photography and contemporary magazine work with his mystifying scenes. In one, a girl looks to the hole in the roof through which a metal safe has fallen, crushing her pram. In another, a girl in a lacy gown sits in a chair by an open window. An arrow pierces her heart, wooden ladders are propped up around her on all sides as though she were a fortress under siege, and she gazes glumly off the edge of the picture.
There’s a kind of high silliness at work here, but the most striking piece in the show is altogether cooler in temperament. Vienna Rain is a lenticular print from the Bulgarian photographer Maximilian Pramatarov. Lenticular prints are the ones that come with a finely corrugated plastic lens over them so that when you move, the image springs into motion or appears in three dimensions.
In a sense, this particular one does both: it’s a view of one huge mansion block taken through the high window across the street. As you walk past it the image refocuses between the drizzly view and the raindrops on the near-side windowpane, mimicking the back and forth movement of the eye and creating a sense of the intervening space that, unlike a few of the 3D movies currently making the rounds, actually feels like something – a cold, sad distance, at once impersonal and strangely comforting.
web link19.06.2010 Sara Rahbar in Guernica Magazine, "Fighting Flags"
web link06.06.2010 Carbon 12 in "The National"
By Ed Lake.
Meanwhile, Carbon 12’s Blue Skie’d and Clear, to judge from the promotional shots on its website, also seems to do a creditable job at capturing the urban spirit. Birgit Graschopf, Yuko Ichikawa, Maria Maeser, Jamie Baldridge, Maximillian Pramatarov and Hazem Mahdy are the cosmopolitan crew of photographers whose work is on display. Graschopf has a bird’s-eye shot of pairs of figures along a deserted street. The image packs a Last Year at Marienbad charge of metaphysical uncanniness, which is surely a major feature of any trip into town, says the chap from West Sussex. And Pramatarov has a shot of vast Soviet-style mansion blocks seen through the rain on a high window. Even just looking at it on my scuzzy monitor, it’s producing a sense of inexpressible, though oddly pleasant, desolation. One can only imagine what the full effect is like.
web link26.05.2010 Carbon 12 in "The National"
web link26.05.2010 Gallerists Nadine Knotzer and Kourosh Nouri in "Die Presse"
web link26.05.2010 Florian Hafele in "Kunstforum"
web link26.05.2010 Carbon 12 during Vienna fair in "Kleine Zeitung"
web link06.05.2010 Sara Rahbar in Time Out
web link07.04.2010 Tobias Lehner's exhibition at Union Gallery, UK
web link20.03.2010 Katherine Bernhardt Solo Exhibition "Lila dit Ca"
Loft 19
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C/O Suzanne Tarasieve13.03.2010 Sara Rahbar in FT
web link06.03.2010 Thierry Feuz Exhibition "Flowers" in Laleh June Gallery
Opening on Tuesday 11th of March, in Basel/CH.
web link04.03.2010 "Lehner's Illusion", Time out Dubai
Article by Nyree Barrett
web link24.02.2010 Sara Rahbar on Fluxcore Magazine
web link28.01.2010 Tobias Lehner's "Pluton" on Artslant
web link26.01.2010 Philip Mueller exhibition "Energie aus der Maske" (Energie from the mask)
The young, yet talented, Philip Mueller, will be opening his solo exhibition on the 10th of Feb. 2010 in Kunstraum Praterstraße 15, 1020, Vienna at 19:00. The show will go on till the 21st of Feb. 2010.
22.01.2010 "A New wave of Art", The National
web link06.01.2010 Farzan Sadjadi's exhibition on ARTSLANT
web link06.01.2010 Carbon 12 at Art Dubai
web link04.01.2010 Tor-Magnus Lundeby in THE NATIONAL
web link06.12.2009 Tor-Magnus Lundeby in Al Bayan
web link29.11.2009 "The Artist in the Machine"
Article of Tor-Magnus Lundeby's exhibition in THE NATIONAL.
web link29.10.2009 "Slightly later than planned (something about a customs strike at Lisbon airport)"
Review by Chris Lord.
web link08.10.2009 Gil Heitor Cortesao in TIME OUT
web link07.10.2009 Tobias Lehner's exhibition "Anthrax"
Do not miss Tobias Lehner's exhibition at the Gallery Kleindienst in Leipzig from the 16th of October till the 21st of november.
web link06.10.2009 "Art in Dubai", previews of October in TIME OUT, by Chris Lord
web link06.10.2009 Mario Neugebauer's exhibition in the Akademie der bildenden Künste
The talented painter Mario Neugebauer will have a solo exhibition in the prestigious university of fine arts, in Vienna, tittled "Speed".
web link03.09.2009 Carbon 12 on "DUBAI MADAME"
web link21.08.2009 The magnificent seven, by Emily Meredith
Carbon 12's "seven Positions" in Khaleej Times
web link20.08.2009 Carbon 12 on Twitter
Art lovers can follow now Carbon 12's adventures on TWITTER.
Join us at Carbon12artgallery on Twitter.20.08.2009 Gil Heitor Cortesao's "Memories of the Future"
ArtSlant
web link10.08.2009 Thierry Feuz on YOUTUBE
web link20.07.2009 THE NATIONAL, "Summer of Culture", by Gemma Champ
web link06.07.2009 Sara Rahbar participates in "Iran Inside Out", Chelsea Art Museum New York
web link17.06.2009 "Seven Positions" in Al Bayan
web link16.06.2009 "UAE's Oneness" By Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, in Khaleej Times
web link15.06.2009 "Seven Positions" in TIME OUT
web link09.06.2009 "An Eye for Emerging Artists", THE NATIONAL
By Katie Boucher
web link04.06.2009 Carbon 12 Blog
web link03.06.2009 Bernhard Buhmann on "L'agenda"
web link31.05.2009 "Seven Positions" on Artslant
web link18.05.2009 Bernhard Buhmann's exhibition in "Al Bayan"
web link09.05.2009 Bernhard Buhmann on "Austrian National Radio Oe1"
web link07.05.2009 "Traditions and New Methods", Bernhard Buhmann in THE NATIONAL
By Emily Baxter
web link06.05.2009 Sara Rahbar on "Wikipedia"
web link05.05.2009 Bernhard Buhmann in "Dubai Lime"
web link30.04.2009 Sara Rahbar's art work at Christie's
On the 29th of April, Sara Rahbar textiles/mixed-media "Flag", executed in 2006, reached a record of $ 40,000, at Christie's sales in Dubai.
web link20.04.2009 "One of Dubai's Best galleries..." Wknd by Khaleedj Times
Get cultural tonight and head down to Carbon 12, one of Dubai’s best galleries, for a glimpse at New York-based Katherine Bernhardt’s Wonder Woman exhibition. As much statements as paintings, Bernhardt’s bold work take a wry look at the female image in today’s obessive world. Thought provoking, brilliant and beautiful, this is one exhibition not to be missed.
web link06.04.2009 "Brushes with Fame", article by Ed Lake in THE NATIONAL
web link05.04.2009 Carbon 12 on Saatchi Gallery
web link31.03.2009 Katherine Bernhardt in GULFNEWS
"CAPTURING BEAUTY"
web link30.03.2009 "Girls, girls, girls", Katherine Bernhardt in Week-end magazine of the National
web link29.03.2009 "The Rhythms of Celebrity", Katherine Bernhardt in The National
web link24.03.2009 Katherine Bernhardt's "Wonder Women" in Dubai Lime
web link23.03.2009 Gallery Hopping- The New York Times
web link18.03.2009 Austrian lacquer master Thierry Feuz tells Time Out about his world and work to date…
web link17.03.2009 Katherine Bernhardt's "Wonder Women" on ArtSlant
web link14.03.2009 "Carbon 12 Goes Abstract", in Week-end Khaleej Times
web link12.03.2009 Interview with Thierry Feuz on DE51GN
web link04.03.2009 Katherine Bernhardt in "Artillery" Magazine
web link02.03.2009 Carbon 12 on Spiky Penguin
web link28.02.2009 "Hold the front page: serious new art gallery outside Al Quoz shock"
web link17.02.2009 "Art Market during Financial Crisis, London Calling"
In London 5.9 Million Pounds in total sales was realized, on the 12th and the 13th of February, at a Phillips de Pury Auction. Earlier in the same week, Christie's achieved sales of 12.7 Million Pounds on Contemporary Art Auction, after earning 63 Million Pounds on the sale of impressionist and modern works. All this on the heels of a Southeby's Auction achieving 25.3 Mllion Pounds in sales.
Impressive totals in these times of financial Crisis which begs the question: Is the Art world immune? It certainly appears to be!!!17.02.2009 Postcard from Utopia on ArtSlant
web link12.02.2009 Carbon 12 on ArtSlant
web link11.02.2009 Carbon 12 and START "5 children from Gaza-5 reasons to care"
web link11.02.2009 Carbon 12 and START "5 children from Gaza-5 reasons to care"
web link11.02.2009 Thierry feuz in "Event gossip"
web link11.02.2009 Thierry Feuz "in Dubai Lime"
web link02.02.2009 Sara Rahbar in the Independent
web link02.02.2009 Alireza Massoumi's exhibition
web link01.02.2009 Sara Rahbar in Art Radar Asia
web link01.02.2009 Sara Rahbar in Times Online
web link18.01.2009 "Talents from around the globe", The National
web link12.01.2009 Alireza Massoumi's interview on DE51GN.com
web link05.01.2009 Sara Rahbar with Carbon 12
Carbon 12 is proud to represent Sara Rahbar in the UAE. Her solo exhibition is planned for 2010.
29.12.2008 "Cavalier colour", The National
web link16.12.2008 "Canvassing ideas for 2009" Carbon 12 in 7 Days
web link16.12.2008 Carbon 12 introduces Farzan Sadjadi
web link15.12.2008 Carbon 12 has joined artfacts.net
web link10.12.2008 Alireza Massoumi in "Dubai Lime"
web link27.11.2008 Opening event "Carbon 12 in Dubai"
On the 28th of November 2008, Carbon 12 opens its doors to art lovers, for an exclusive opening event. Contact us if you are interested to join the party.
web link30.09.2008 Carbon 12 on the Art Map
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