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Mbarkho's Personal Website Français | English |
Hello, My name is Ricardo Mbarkho. I am an artist and I also teach art at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts), Beirut. In this site you can find things about my Biography, my Works, and some Lectures and Workshops as well as a Bibliography. I also added a What's new section where I often post my art related news... PS: My name, in this site or elsewhere, appears in several languages or spellings: Mbarkho, M'Barko, Mbarak, Mbaaraq, Moubarak, etc., depending on the period in which it was written. Thank you to update your address book to Ricardo Mbarkho. By the way, here is my contact info:
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Presentation of the lecture: Ricardo Mbarkho spoke about the emerging artists’ approaches and positions in today’s Lebanese multi-cultural society, where religion, politics, war and post-war environments are always affecting the identity and belonging crisis. The aim of the lecture is presenting a panorama on the Lebanese current art scene dealing with new media. Mbarkho conciders that art in Lebanon is strongly related to socio-politics. So to see how art is reflecting society, he started the lecture by presenting an historical background of Lebanon since its independance day till today's situatio. This is to give an idea about what are the historical icons our generation share today as part of their common geographical and historical context. While of course not all of them have the same translation or understanding of this and that event they or others caused. R. Mbarkho then rose the issue of how the art and cultural institutions are initiating projects and giving subventions, and how some individual efforts are investigated to organize new media events, with an overview on the public, critics and press roles. He focused on how the new technology of information and communication is cultured, specifically via his new media work as well as the works of colleagues with whom he is in direct contact. Link
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