ARABIC SCULPTURE GROUP
For artists fascinated of
drapery and interested in clothing
sculptures, the traditional Arabic clothing is of paramount interest.
Therefore, Galschiot has made several copper sculptures expressing the genuine
elegance and fluffy lightness of the Arabic clothing tradition. Most sculptures
consist only of the clothing, detached from its human content. They match well
the Islamic culture that
according to the Koran bans sculpturing of human and animal faces.
In 1991 Galschiot conceived a
project of a cavalcade of Arabic clothing. The proposal was negotiated with
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, but the project was
temporarily suspended because of the Golf War, in the wake of which extremist
Islamic groups have been invigorated. Such groups oppose this sort of
sculpture. An attempt will be made to realize the project privately in the
Arabian Peninsula.
Jens Galschiot has created a
clothing sculpture of an Arabic
woman and an Arabic
man.
The sculpture Teshahud
depicts a praying Arabic man.
Go to the main page of the
project.
Other
projects with relation to The Middle East:
A Pillar of Shame in Kurdistan?
Palestinian artists in Jens
Galschiot´s workshop
Click HERE for short presentations of Jens
Galschiot’s manifold projects.
Click
HERE for an overview of Jens
Galschiot’s sculptures.
Jens Galschiot’s homepage