Artist Talk With Fadlabi
Forecast Public Art, 2300 Myrtle Avenue #160, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55114
- 09/16/2019
- 7PM
Event details
Chroma Zone muralist Fadlabi will discuss his artistic practice as well as the content of his mural, The Air at Night, which includes themes relating to his upbringing in Sudan and the ongoing Sudanese revolution. This talk will be held on Monday September 9 at 7 pm at Forecast Public Art. Chroma Zone will partner with Mizna and the Minnesota Museum of American Art (The M) in bringing Fadlabi. This project and lecture is a public component to Mizna’s 20th anniversary retrospective exhibition, History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, on view September 12, 2019–January 5, 2020.
What: Chroma Zone Mural Fest: Artist Talk
When: Monday, September 16, 7 p.m.
Where: Forecast Public Art, 2300 Myrtle Avenue #160, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55114
About Fadlabi
Fadlabi (b. 1975 in Omdurman) lives and works in Oslo. He was educated at the Art Academy in Oslo (KHiO), Al-Neelain University in Khartoum, and Sudan University. He works with painting, text, and performance. In 2008 he founded “One Night Only†an artist-run platform in Oslo that shows a new artist every Monday. Possibly, Norway’s most busy gallery. Between 2010- 2014 he worked with artist Lars Cuzner on European Attraction Limited, a contemporary rendition of a human zoo named The Congo Village and was part of the 1914 World Fair in Oslo. They re-enacted the village and opened it to the public in May 2014. His recent shows includes Sharjah Biennial 11 (Sharjah), Bergen Assembly (Bergen)The Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo), Kunsthall (Oslo), UKS (Oslo), Munchmuseet i bevegelse (Oslo), NY Art-book fair (NY),Performa 15 NY (NY), Temporary Gallery (Cologne), Nile Sunset Annex (Cairo), Al Riwaq (Manamah), the Saudi Arts Council (Jeddah), Darat Al Funun (Amman) and Townhouse (Cairo).