{"id":263890,"date":"2019-12-06T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=263890"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:42:20","slug":"kuwaiti-culture-featured-at-villa-lobos-park-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/kuwaiti-culture-featured-at-villa-lobos-park-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti culture featured at Villa-Lobos Park exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Art from Kuwait will be on display until next Sunday (8) at the Villa-Lobos Park Library in S\u00e3o Paulo. An exhibit featuring photographs, paintings and items harking back to Kuwaiti culture opened this Friday (6) as part of the Kuwait Cultural Week, hosted by the Embassy of Kuwait in Brazil with support from the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ashkanani brought items from his collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show includes items that symbolize past and present life in Kuwait, from the collection of Husain Ashkanani, who has travelled to Brazil for the event, including boat parts and miniatures, handwoven basketry, ancient cases and chests, postage stamps, telecommunication and radio equipment, cassette tapes of local singers, drums, and clothing.<\/p>\n

During the show\u2019s opening, Ashkanani told ANBA that he started collecting as a hobby, and eventually got invited by the government to join other collectors in presenting Kuwaiti culture in other countries. He owns about 1,000 objects, which he keeps in a museum in his own home, and he brought some 300 items to Brazil. The collector picked ones that portray daily life, his household, and ones relating to boats \u2013 the symbol of Kuwait.<\/p>\n

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Al-Amiri takes photos of Kuwaiti handicraft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also featured are framed photographs by Hamed Al-Amiri, who attended the exhibit\u2019s opening. They are portrayals of iconic landmarks \u2013 like the Kuwait Towers \u2013, of Kuwait City, a marina, boats, landscapes, artisans at work, and Arab men and their falcons.<\/p>\n

Al-Amiri told ANBA that he joins government-sponsored cultural exhibitions in other countries, and this is the first time his work is shown in Brazil. \u201cI wanted to show the Brazilian people what Kuwait used to be like in the past, and what it is like today,\u201d he said. He points out that in the past, Kuwait\u2019s economy revolved around fishing, and handicraft was another major source of revenue.<\/p>\n

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Al-Ali created designs with the word Muhammad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An attention-grabbing part of the exhibit is the pictures featuring geometric designs. It\u2019s the art of Fareed Al-Ali, which explores the creative possibilities of designing the name of Muhammad. Al-Ali had done similar work with the word \u2018Allah\u2019 before creating 500 pieces with the name Muhammad \u2013 a small sample of which is on show in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

Al-Ali combined the fine arts, Arabic calligraphy and architectural engineering and divided his work into eleven groups: sharp, kufic square, soft-grown, mixed, circular, four triangles, quarter-circle, triangle, square, hexagonal and octogonal. \u201cAny culture in the world can understand shapes,\u201d he told ANBA. It took him six years to complete the 500 designs.<\/p>\n

The exhibit\u2019s opening was attended by the three artists, Kuwait\u2019s ambassador Nasser Almotairi, Arab Chamber managing vice-president Mohamed Orra Mourad and other Kuwait and Arab Chamber delegates, including secretary-general Tamer Mansour.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit opened this Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Almoitari noted that Brazil and Kuwait sustain a cultural agreement, and this is one of the reasons for the Villa-Lobos Park exhibit and the Kuwait Cultural Week, whose purpose is to showcase Kuwaiti culture to Brazilians. \u201cThis is also diplomacy. Diplomacy isn\u2019t simply about politics and economics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Kuwait Cultural Week opened Thursday evening (5) with a a ceremony at the Arab Chamber headquarters<\/a>. It will also feature a lecture on the teaching of Arabic in Brazil, Saturday (7), from 9:30 am until noon at the Villa-Lobos Park Library; a music concert on Saturday (7), 2 pm on Visconde de Parna\u00edba street, 1,316, in the Mooca neighborhood. The same concert will be played Sunday at 10pm on Avenida Paulista, in front of number 283. Another music concert was held this Friday at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.<\/p>\n

Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kuwait \u2013 Exhibition
\nDecember 6-8, 2019
\n9:30am-6pm
\nVilla-Lobos Park Library<\/a>
\nAvenida Queiroz Filho, 1205 \u2013 Alto de Pinheiros – S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 SP
\nFree of charge<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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