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Firstcomingtowidespreadattentionin2000,theworkofAdelAbdessemedhasbeengenerallyunderstoodasanintuitiveandsearingresponsetotheconvulsionsshakingthecontemporaryworldinitsreligious,political,economicandmoralaspects.Theartisthasbeensaidtore-appropriatetheprimalpowersofviolenceanddestructionbycreatingbraidedaeroplanes,arolled-upfuselage,burnt-outcarsmouldedinterracotta,rowsofbarbedwireInstallations,performances,drawings,sculptures,videos,photosAbdessemedemploysmultiplemediatoregisterthesignsofviolencescatteredacrosstheworld,tocapturethehubbubofhistoryandrenderitinimages.Trueastheseviewsmaybe,thisbookandtheaccompanyingmajorexhibitionattheCentrePompidouofferathoroughreappraisalofthem.IamInnocentshowsthathistoryinitschaotic,convulsiveandconflictingformsisnottheobjectofAbdessemedsartbutratheritsmaterial,whichisthoroughlyreworked,stylisedandsublimatedtotheimagesoftheworld.Abdessemedsworkbelongstoahistoryofartthatexceedsthenarrowlimitsofthecontemporary.TodaysworldmaysupplyAbdessemedwithhisrawmaterials,buthesubjectsthemtodream-likedisplacementsandtransformations.BorninAlgeriain1971,AdelAbdessemedbeganhisstudiesattheEcoledesBeaux-ArtsinAlgiers.AftertheassassinationofitsdirectorbyIslamists,AbdessemedmovedtoFranceandcontinuedtostudyinLyon.TodayhelivesandworksinParis.In2000AbdessemedcompletedaresidenceatP.S.1inNewYork,andhisworkisrepresentedinprominentinternationalcollectionsincludingtheCentrePompidouinParis,theIsraelMuseuminJerusalem,MuséedartmoderneetcontemporaininGeneva,MuséedArtModernedelaVilledeParis,andtheFran?oisPinaultFoundationinVenice.
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