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Alisa Aistova Uriel Ziv Azancot Anton Lefabi Andy Sowerby Monica Sousa Leszek Sikon
Chih Yang Chen Nour Hassan Crisia Miroiu Alves Ludovico Shahab Naseri Mariano Alvarez
Jonathan Irawan Anett Pรณsalaki Christian Neuman Charlie Wayne Chiara Sgatti Marilina Alvarez
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Issue #2 Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine Visual Arts Copywriting DÁVID TORJAI Creative Design MO’ MOHAMED BENHADJ Graphic Design JONATHAN IRAWAN Operations & Distribution AL-TIBA9 TEAM Publication BARCELONA email : contact@altiba9.com instagram : @altiba9 Facebook : Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine is an independent artist-run international publication which showcases experimental and progressive contemporary art, reflecting modern society and its environment, provoking conversation and action; fostering innovation and diversity of mediums which make today’s art scene so intriguing. Al-Tiba9 Mag covers photography, paintings, visual art, music, film and performance. It covers Artists with a primary focus on contemporary visual art reflecting modern society and its environment. The magazine includes features on art of 18 selected artists from around the globe, it aims to give spotlight and to provide a unique art space for artists. Unlike gallery spaces, it aims also to create a space where individual artists can freely express themselves and become media themselves. We engage the selected artists with our readers and followers everyday through our social media, website, digital and printed issues We also publish Biographies, interviews and studio visits with artists and curators who inspire us and our audience.
Curator MO’ MOHAMED BENHADJ (Algeria)
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Andy Sowerby 06
The Frozen People
Alisa Aistova Dysfunction 38
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Monica Sousa
Chih Yang Chen
(Des)fragmentação, Descampado
Parallelly Post Individual Prophecy
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Uriel Ziv Azancot
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Leszek Sikon
McGufin Eyes Wide Shut
Nour Hassan
Shell Tools
Water
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Anton Lefabi
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Matierès
Crisia Miroiu Untitled (disclaimer)
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Anett Pósalaki Gender 80 124
Alves Ludovico
Christian Neuman
Sulin, The Fuel For Life
The end of everything as you knew it
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Shahab Naseri
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My Mother
Charlie Wayne
Chiara Sgatti The White Spot
The Junk Food Last Supper
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Mariano Alvarez
Marilina Alvarez
Multidimensional Asymmetry
I DON’T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING BUT
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Jonathan Irawan Nacre
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Alisa Aistova
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DYSFUNCTION Alisa Aistova investigates human boundaries and transitional states, mutations, injuries and suppressed desires. In the center of her work there are always transformations, mental and physiological. Insanity, psychic transformation, obsessive neurosis, melancholy, rejection, anguish, fear, loneliness, violence, isolation, death and the desire for it.
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Uriel Ziv Azancot
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The core of Uriel Ziv Azancot’s interest lies in the thin line separating vision from castrated vision, light from darkness, movement which symbolizes life from immobility which means death. His desire is to try to understand and cast meaning into the process that occurs from the moment he looks at something to the moment he interprets it, the moment of reflection versus the moment of truth, assuming that the truth has many strange facets.
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Anton Lefabi
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MATIERÈS Anton Lefabi’s work is centered on repetition, obsession, irony and sacrifice. It is essentially based on a conceptual modus operandi which manifests itself in various thematic work series. Lefabi tries to shift people’s perception by investing most of his energy into developing a method of transcription which aims to let a work radiate a specific idea. The suitable form of expression is defined by the idea’s inherent mindset.
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Andy Sowerby
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THE FROZEN PEOPLE Sowerby’s films often alternate between narrative, story driven, abstract or expressive work following his instincts, Whether searching through video archives, collaborating with writers and actors, or experimenting with abstractions of light, he’s always starting his process of discovery from varied points. Sometimes it’s a technique, a competition or theme he examines. He’s comfortable working in the abstract realm and leaving space for personal interpretation.
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Monica Sousa
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(DES) FRAGMENTAÇÃO, DESCAMPADO
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Monica Sousa’s art focus on spaces that emerge from late capitalism, even though sometimes, there is a movement of nature that re-colonized this same place that was intervened by human hands, an entropy that originates the organic development of nature.
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Leszek Sikon
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Making hand-forged knives and custom objects in only the highest quality materials is the core of Leszek Sikon’s practice, precision in craft is fundamental. Forging is an incredible process of transformation that allows him to create an artwork from any piece of available steel. Material culture is also crucial to his practice; the right piece of stock, with the right history, can really reinforce the message his artwork attempts to convey.
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Chih Yang Chen
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PARALLELY POST INDIVIDUAL PROPHECY
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Chih Yang Chen works always communicate speculative concepts through subtle symbols. He focuses on exploring the possibilities of subtle relationships that occur between individuals.
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Nour Hassan
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Nour’s inspiration is derived from mundane situations, experiences and thoughts. As Louise Bourgeois declares “Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up”. Nour Hassan’s process is mostly informed by an idea, once established, she explores executing it without limiting herself to a style or brushstroke.
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Alves Ludovico
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SULIN, THE FUEL FOR LIFE
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The super-complexity drives Alves Ludovico’s fascination through his own work, he enhances the limits of his own perception and comprehension. Ludovico’s creations represent a personal case study, a segment from the super-complexity that he sorts out and where he finds the tools for meaning and decision making.
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Shahab Naseri
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MY MOTHER In today’s world the utilities for creating art is many, educational resources exist in a vast measure as well, yet the number of artists and admirable pieces of art are still not much considerable, in fact and artist whose art is drawn from his independent thoughts and ideas, is a true artist, we must greaten our insight and in order to achieve this, there is no other way than finding the true self and the answer to this question; what would you share with your world?
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Mariano Alvarez
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASYMMETRY Mariano’s compositions transition through universes, multiple chords, climates and textures. Classical music, contemporary, concrete, electronic, jazz, blues, rock, generating complex visual harmonies. In ink on freehand paper, Alvarez works hard and organic lines that transmit melodies which intertwine over the rhythm of endless directed energies.
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Jonathan Irawan
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Jonathan is a part of Pulpo Collective, a team of international and multidisciplinary designers and interaction artists that strive on pushing boundaries of art and design through new digital philosophies and mediums. Together with Lalin Keyvan, Nikos Argyros, Noor El-Gewely, Firas Safiedden and Mehmet Berk Bostanci, they envision future scenarios, and question how can design as a practice can resolve challenges of the future, addressing both the physical realm our urban habitats and natural environments, as well as changes in society. The core principle of this ideology is to incorporate digital technologies at multiple scales in our work - from data collection at an urban or territorial scale to sensors and microcontrollers in programmable machines at the intersection of architecture, installation and interactive technologies.
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Anett Pósalaki
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It is important how we accommodate our objects and environment in concepts, time and space. How our choices describes us. Photography is therapy, this is how we process our real and imaginary traumas, stories and identities. It’s a unbreakable bound, how life and art reflect on each other. For Anett Posalaki, te intimate reality, which includes her thoughts of gender constructions, is the basis on which she tries to solve the problem of relations inside and outside a personality.
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Christian Neuman
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THE END OF EVERYTHING AS YOU KNEW IT
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Christian Neuman’s art reveals a tumultuous world either in mid-formation or on the verge of destruction. Neuman’s pieces appear otherworldly, like anthropological relics from a former world glorified in distorted compositions. Amongst their abstract and destructive nature they point towards an undercurrent of opportunity, of optimism for a new world that is being rendered, with the artist capturing the perfect moment between the destruction of an old, and creation of a new world.
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Charlie Wayne
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THE JUNK FOOD LAST SUPPER Charlie’s work questions the identity and the place of reality in a world where fame, image and marketing are kings. The accumulation and proliferation of photographs in his artworks question the power of images in our society and echo the mass consumption mechanisms of our world. Each work can thus be seen as a lighting of the duality of the human, between image and identity, between passive consumption and a quest for truth.
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Chiara Sgatti
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THE WHITE SPOT
Sgatti’s work is to tell stories, to spread concepts and ideas. Chiara loves creating new worlds, new situations, new characters, and she always aims at delivering her own, original message - although she understands that ‘perfection’ is an impossible task.
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Marilina Alvarez
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I DON’T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING BUT A reflection on the daily sport of talking about others is a focus in some of Marilina Alvarez’s work. This comes to life in her short film, which highlights a moment in the life of three wardrobe stylists who work in the film commercials industry in Buenos Aires. Labor relations mix with friendship and complications ensue..
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