L'Art et son Lieu

Text: Charif Majdalani Anthologie visuelle: Gregory Buchakjian Il y a trente ans naissait la galerie Janine Rubeiz, sous la férule de Nadine Begdache et à partir de l’héritage laissé par l’une des grandes figures de la culture libanaise qui donnera son nom à la galerie. Trente ans après, et à l’occasion de ...

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Text: Charif Majdalani
Anthologie visuelle: Gregory Buchakjian

Il y a trente ans naissait la galerie Janine Rubeiz, sous la férule de Nadine Begdache et à partir de l’héritage laissé par l’une des grandes figures de la culture libanaise qui donnera son nom à la galerie. Trente ans après, et à l’occasion de cet anniversaire, Charif Majdalani retrace l’histoire de ce lieu qui, durant trois décennies, aura marqué la scène culturelle et artistique de Beyrouth. Ce faisant, l’écrivain relate succinctement une part de l’histoire de l’art moderne et contemporain au Liban et de ses espaces d’expositions, au sein desquels Nadine Begdache et la g alerie Janine Rubeiz ont occupé une place prépondérante. Une riche anthologie visuelle établie par Gregory Buchakjian accompagne et dialogue avec le texte.

About the Authors

Charif Majdalani

Charif MAJDALANI (b. 1960, Lebanon) is a Lebanese French-speaking novelist. After studying at the Lycée Français in Lebanon, he went on to receive his doctoral degree with a thesis on Antonin Artaud from the University of Provence in 1993, before returning to Lebanon. He was a professor at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, as well as the dean of the department of French literature from 1999 to 2008. A member of the editorial board of l'Orient Littéraire and president of the International House of Writers in Beirut, he published seven novels at Editions du Seuil, including Histoire de la Grande Maison (2005), Caravansérail (2007 - Tropics Prize and François Mauriac Prize of the Académie Française), Villa des Femmes (2015 - Jean Giono Prize) and the Emperor on Foot (2017). At Actes Sud, he published Beyrouth 2020, journal d'un effondrement, (winner of the Special Jury Prize for the Femina) and Last Oasis (2021).

Gregory Buchakjian

Gregory BUCHAKJIAN (b.1971, Lebanon) is an art historian and interdisciplinary artist, as well as the director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). His research is largely based on archive, archaeology and narration, including his Ph.D. dissertation at the Sorbonne (2016), the book Abandoned Dwellings, A History of Beirut (Beirut, Kaph Books: 2018, Valerie Cachard, ed.) and the exhibitions Abandoned Dwellings, Display of Systems (Beirut, Sursock Museum, 2018 curated by Karina El Helou) and Abandoned Dwellings of Beirut (Brussels, Villa Empain, 2019). In 2018, he contributed to the first Lebanese pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Works on Paper accompanying Karina El Helou's Cycles of Collapsing Progress in Oscar Niemeyer's Tripoli International Fair. In 2019, he co-organized the 2nd Alba Cinema Encounters “Filming in Times of War, 1975-1990” for which he produced the installation Where do Filmmakers go? In 2021, he created with Valérie Cachard and Sary Moussa the video Agenda 1979 for Opera National du Rhin and the installation Hercules and Omphale for the exhibition How will it end? (Curated by Alicia Knock and Louma Salamé) based on a painting he attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi.

Technical Details

Publication Date:: Monday, January 8, 2024
Language:: French
Format:: Softcover with flap
Dimensions:: 24 x 18 cm
Weight:: 0.5 kg
ISBN:: 978-614-8035-60-9
Number of Pages:: 214
Publisher:: Kaph Books
Categories:: Arts