Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shimon Attie...
...loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence. The projector will play with his shadow before the public." Shimon Attie's work, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, is premised on such shadowplay, but with profoundly moving results...
...exhibition, titled "Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie, Photographs and Public Projects, 1992-1998," is the first retrospective of the artist's work and encompasses several of his European installations, as well as his most recent offerings in San Francisco and New York...
...Through Oct. 31: "Jim Hodges: every way" (go for The End From Where You Are, a most tender deconstruction of silk flowers), "Home: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber" (documenting the decay of abandoned houses). Nov. 17-Jan. 16, 2000: "Sights Unseen: Shimon Attie, Photographs and Public Projects...
...talks that arose with the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May. In Syria's earlier rounds of negotiations, Assad moved cautiously, only to react bitterly to the deadlock that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher...