{"id":58586,"date":"2024-11-08T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=58586"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:30:37","slug":"last-chance-adel-el-siwi-yellow-tropics","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-adel-el-siwi-yellow-tropics\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Adel El Siwi: Yellow Tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Siwi&#8217;s first solo exhibition in over a decade features both new paintings and pieces from an archive of earlier works: &#8220;the paintings shown here collectively present philosophical provocations and musings&#8221; says the gallery. The title references Upper Egypt and the origin of man, but also Egypt\u2019s literal reach towards its African neighbours, hinting at a desire to reclaim an element of identity as part of the Continent: &#8220;it is not simply Egypt\u2019s Islamic and Mediterranean history and culture that inform his country\u2019s identity, but according to El Siwi, a longer and earlier one &#8230; A conjuring of a shared Continental history of Africa, and a desired alignment by the artist artistically and emotionally with a greater story of identity and history, has resulted in an oeuvre unlike many artists of his generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">El Siwi&#8217;s first solo exhibition in over a decade features both new paintings and pieces from an archive of earlier works: &#8220;the paintings shown here collectively present philosophical provocations and musings&#8221; says the gallery. The title references Upper Egypt and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-adel-el-siwi-yellow-tropics\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Adel El Siwi: Yellow Tropics\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-58586","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58586"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=58586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}