[spectre] invitation

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The Contemporary Art  Center - Skopje
cordially invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition

- MY DIARY-
by
Bedi IBRAHIM


Wednesday, 30.january 2002. at 20.00 hrs

CIX Gallery, 
Orce Nikolov 109, 
1000 Skopje
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Ibrahim Bedi's project called My Room presents a kind of intimate
author's diary dedicated to the antique items that exist in our
every-day's life. The author's idea is to revive and actualize the
objects that fell into oblivion because they're worn-out with their use.
Using this objects as a basis for his artwork, the author - not only
rescues them from disappearing, but - giving them the place of honor in
his art, he also ensures their immortality, in a way, and their path to
eternity. Although - at the first look - it's strange how a chair's leg,
a piece of wood, stone or some tree-branch can be a sacred (art) relict,
all of this accidentally found items, now art-pieces in form of a
ready-made artifacts, in their past - possessed certain positive energy
that, actually, got the author to an idea to select exactly them among
the many others.
The story about the energy and its eternal circulation fulfills a significant 
space in the Bedi's artworks. All objects and, namely, all the things
that are around us, possess a certain kind of energy. Rough material
elements (the elements of the periodical system from which all that
exist in the world is consisted) exist in the material plot of all
things, but those elements aren't enough to give life to those things -
energy is what gives life. Even the simplest elements broken to the
smallest pieces, aren't anything else but a bunch of electrons made of
energy. According the ancient Veda annals, the raw material elements
(earth, air, fire and water) merge with the subtle material elements
(mind, intelligence, ego, etc.), but this junction isn't enough to
create the material entities of this world. Only when the energy will
contact with those material entities, they begin to have life of their
own. The energy overwhelms inside all material entities, but it remains
outside them also - making their aura. Every material entity - actually
- isn't anything else but juncture of the material elements ad the
energy, but with different ratio from case to case.
Everyone of the items now displayed in the Gallery, in some period
of time (eventually) was surrounded by certain attention according to
its purpose and use: the chair/table legs, the old window and
desk-shells etc., once before 50, 70 or more years, were items with
certain importance to our ancestors. After their life-use, they fell
into oblivion and they wait for their disappearance from the face of the
earth since. But, years after the cease of their actual use, the author
discovers this, once important items - and grants them a new life. The
joyful shades and forms of those art-deeds are created that way by Bedi
- exactly because of their original energy within them. The
children-like drawings at the items of the project My Room - aren't
accidental. According the author, every one of the old items he uses as
a base-point, consist certain strange potentials and powers within,
potentials and powers that manage to liberate him from all inhibitions
and limits of every day's life. Using that potential, Bedi succeeds to
grant to his deeds the purity of the child's mind.
The significant presence of the mirrors in Bedi's work, actually, presents
a transfer of the past into the present, the leap from one to another
world, a leap from the cruel world of reality into the wondrous world of
the illusion and imagination. The mirror itself presents a kind of an
enchanted talisman that provides us with ability to have a look at the
other side of this world and to have a trip through Time, or visit the
Wonderland.

Nikola Pisarev


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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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