ACROSS THE LINES [Archives:2001/06/Local News]
ACROSS THE LINES, an exhibition by George Gittoes, an Australian artist, will be organized by the French Cultural Center in collaboration with DIA organization and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (aka ICBL).
The exhibition of paintings, drawings and photos will be held in the French Cultural Center from the 10th until the 28th of February 2001 (five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm.)
The opening ceremony will be under the auspices of Mr. Mutahhar A. Al-Saidi, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs at 7 pm in the Arthur Rimbaud Hall (2nd floor).
The opening will include a slide show followed by a commentary from George Gittoes himself.
Gottoes and Across the Lines Exhibition
Gittoes goes alone, across the lines of race, religion, and political ideology Africa, China, Tibet, the Middle East, Cambodia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, East Timor, Pakistan, Afghanistan. He is a painter of the human story, giving us insightful portraits of individuals caught up in the currents of history, and keynote images of our changing world.
Australian artist George Gittoes, works in temporary studios and from portable drawing satchels, as he travels the globe, probing places and issues known to most of us only from the safe distance of the nightly news broadcasts.
Gittoes uses both camera and drawing pencil in the field, creating high quality photo portraits, and personalised drawings, on which he hand writes diary-like notes, about the subject, their circumstances, and his reaction to both. Gittoes paintings are strongly coloured works which have the power to leap across the room at you. He deals out images which simply cannot be dismissed they demand interaction and attention.
Gittoes is an artist who applies art where journalism usually treads; he crosses the lines of what is expected of an artist, as well as those drawn by politics and culture, taking viewers around the world into the zones of conflict and its human cost on both sides of the lines.
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