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PROJECT 09<\/em>\u00a0PERSONAL POP<\/h1>\nMohammed Shah Jahan Miah<\/h2>\n18-02-18 > 29-04-18.<\/h1>\n
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<\/div>[vc_column_text]Personal Pop<\/em> will acquaint you with the idiosyncratic work of the unknown, prematurely deceased, highly promising Bangladeshi-British artist Shah Jahan (b. 1976, Sylhet, Bangladesh; d. 2015, Birmingham, UK). He grew up in Birmingham, studied at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, and worked as a resident at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1998 to 2001. His work is strikingly varied, comprising videos, sculptures, paintings, collages, installations, clothing and drawings that blend the fabric of his own everyday life with the language of pop art and popular culture.<\/p>\nShah was convinced that art possessed a transformative quality, and he envisioned a position for himself at the centre of society. He strove to make a kind of art he called \u201cpersonal pop\u201d: it was close to mass culture, like pop, but at the same time completely personal. He availed himself of popular media imagery as well as private photographs, used low-cost materials, produced a significant volume of work, and mixed the personal with the universal, the charming with the political, and the glamorous with the raw.<\/p>\n
His body of work is made up of apparently accessible objects that on closer inspection turn out to be part of a deeper web of meanings and references, with links to each other, religion, politics and identity. As such, it meshes perfectly with contemporary reality, in which objects, people, ideas and worlds are increasingly intertwined. His work is capable of commanding the viewer’s attention and then holding it.<\/p>\n
Shah\u2019s unique ideas about art, his drive to produce, his unbridled ambition, and the great promise all those strengths added up to were overshadowed by his mental health problems and his early death at 38. Cut down in his prime, he was never able to reach full maturity as an artist. Parts Projects aims to give Shah the attention he deserves by introducing his work to a Dutch audience.<\/p>\n
\nSymposium
\n<\/strong>In conjunction with the exhibition Parts Project is organising the symposium titled Framing Artistic Practice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. We also\u00a0invite students to respond textually or visually to the Call for Papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nReview on Villa La Repubblica<\/a> (in Dutch only)
\n<\/a>Review in Den Haag Centraal, 15 march 2018<\/a> (in Dutch only)
\nArticle in Metropolis M<\/a>\u00a0(in Dutch only)
\nReview on Trendbeheer<\/a>\u00a0(in Dutch only)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
18-02-18 > 29-04-18.<\/h1>\n
Shah was convinced that art possessed a transformative quality, and he envisioned a position for himself at the centre of society. He strove to make a kind of art he called \u201cpersonal pop\u201d: it was close to mass culture, like pop, but at the same time completely personal. He availed himself of popular media imagery as well as private photographs, used low-cost materials, produced a significant volume of work, and mixed the personal with the universal, the charming with the political, and the glamorous with the raw.<\/p>\n
His body of work is made up of apparently accessible objects that on closer inspection turn out to be part of a deeper web of meanings and references, with links to each other, religion, politics and identity. As such, it meshes perfectly with contemporary reality, in which objects, people, ideas and worlds are increasingly intertwined. His work is capable of commanding the viewer’s attention and then holding it.<\/p>\n
Shah\u2019s unique ideas about art, his drive to produce, his unbridled ambition, and the great promise all those strengths added up to were overshadowed by his mental health problems and his early death at 38. Cut down in his prime, he was never able to reach full maturity as an artist. Parts Projects aims to give Shah the attention he deserves by introducing his work to a Dutch audience.<\/p>\n
Review on Villa La Repubblica<\/a> (in Dutch only) <\/p>\n
\nSymposium
\n<\/strong>In conjunction with the exhibition Parts Project is organising the symposium titled Framing Artistic Practice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. We also\u00a0invite students to respond textually or visually to the Call for Papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Review in Den Haag Centraal, 15 march 2018<\/a> (in Dutch only)
\nArticle in Metropolis M<\/a>\u00a0(in Dutch only)
\nReview on Trendbeheer<\/a>\u00a0(in Dutch only)<\/p>\n