Tarek al ghoussein biography of rory

On the occasion of architect and industrial designer Hans Gugelot’s 100th birthday, the HfG-Archive Ulm dedicated an exhibition and comprehensive publication Hans Gugelot: The Architecture of Design to him. For the catalog and the exhibition the photographer Roman Raacke used designs by Hans Gugelot in the context of the architecture of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm.

Hans Gugelot
After the Second World War, the architect Hans Gugelot (1920–1965) was an important pioneer of German industrial design. He was on of the most important personalities at the HfG Ulm. His name stood for their success in the field of product development. In April 2020 his 100th birthday will be celebrated.

Hans Gugelot came to Ulm in 1954 to the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG). In close collaboration with the owners of the Braun Radio Company, he and his team then developed a new product design for Braun, with which the company caused quite a stir at the 1955 radio trade fair in Düsseldorf. The new radio- and phonosets would express the modern attitude to life: These were the devices to play the current Cool Jazz and to drive the muff out of the apartments. In

the following years, Hans Gugelot designed numerous industrial goods for leading manufacturers: shavers, furniture, sewing machines, slide projectors, trains for local transport. The architect had become an industrial designer, a new profession that hardly anyone could have imagined at the beginning of the 1960s. According to Gugelot, being a designer didn’t mean to be superficially cool—in his opinion, designers had a social and cultural responsibility.

Although Hans Gugelot was one of the most influential designers at HfG Ulm along with Max Bill and Otl Aicher, his work is still largely unexplored. This is where the publication closes the gaps and reveals further research approaches.

The individual essays deal with main points of Gugelot’s work—for example, the early developments in systematizing furnit

Al-Ghoussein has exhibited extensively in Europe, the United States, and The Middle East. His solo shows include Odysseus, The Third Line Dubai, 2021 and warehouse 421 Abu Dhabi, 2019,  Al Sawaber, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2017); K Files, CAP Kuwait, Kuwait (2017); K Files and Sawaber Series, Nevada Museum of Art, USA (2016); K Files, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2014); E Series, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece (2011); A Retrospective: Works from 2003-2010, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (2010).

His work has been shown in group shows including Theatre of Operations, MoMA PS1, NY, USA (2019-2020); Negotiating The Future: 6th Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan (2017); The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017); The 15th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art, Houston, USA (2014) ; Lost in Landscape, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (2014); Photoquai, Photography Biennial, Paris, France (2013); From Palestine with Hope, Art Space, London, UK (2013); Safar/Voyage, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada (2013) and The National Pavilion of Kuwait 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2013);

Tarek’s works were collected by museums worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Freer Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; Nevada Museum of Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; British Museum, London; the Royal Museum of Photography in Copenhagen; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Sharjah Biennial Collection, UAE; the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, Barjeel Art Foundation and Art Jameel.

The Moving Garden

9 Stories / 9 Histoires / 九則故事 Lee Mingwei, 2018

This catalogue results from nine conversations between Lee Mingwei and nine curators or instituti... more This catalogue results from nine conversations between Lee Mingwei and nine curators or institutional directors—Adeline Lépine, Christine Macel, Limor Tomer, Suhanya Raffel, Kathryn Weir, Eugenie Tsai, Stephanie Rosenthal, Mami Kataoka and Simon Maidment—together with one of Mingwei's performers, Jean-Gabriel Manolis. These conversations tell stories of encounters and awkwardnesses, of moments of delights and grief, of joy and violence. The Moving Garden, Bedtime Stories, When Beauty Visits and Sonic Blossom deal with the notion of giftgiving; Bodhi Tree Project and Our Labyrinth with the world and oneself; The Letter Writing Project, Guernica in Sand and The Mending Project with the ideas of forgiveness, inclusion and repair. Each project is to be taken as an invitation to an inner and sensitive journey.

Nine conversations, thousands of experiences, encounters and circumstances: these are stories of the world as it goes by, made by and for the people, to be shared, told, and lived. Or, as John Cage once said, “The emotions—love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust—are in the audience.” (Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1961)
Nicolas Garait

Published on the occasion of Lee Mingwei 's exhibition Sonic Blossom at Centre Pompidou, Paris, from October 10 to November 4, 2018.

Edited by Nicolas Garait.
Texts by Mami Kataoka, Adeline Lépine, Christine Macel, Suhanya Raffel, Stephanie Rosenthal, Limor Tomer, Eugenie Tsai, Kathryn Weir, Simon Maidment, Jean-Gabriel Manolis, Lewis Hyde, Lee Mingwei, Nicolas Garait. Graphic design: Claire Rolland.
Published by Les presses du réel, October 2018
trilingual edition (English / Chinese / French)
20 x 26 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)
256 pages (color ill.)

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Kuwaiti Palestinian visual artist (1962–2022)

Tarek Al-Ghoussein (Arabic: طارق الغصين; 17 January 1962 – 11 June 2022), was a Kuwaiti Palestinian multi-genre artist best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture, and performance art.

His work moved away from subjects of land, belonging, nostalgia and barriers and instead gravitated toward the metaphorical transit to his ancestral homeland - Palestine. He moved between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.

Career

Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait to Kuwaiti parents of Palestinian ancestry who were originally displaced from their ancestral homeland in Ramleh, Palestine.

His father, Tal