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Unveiled: New Art From The Middle East
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Jeffar Khaldi, Frozen, 2007. Oil on canvas 230 x 260 cm. Courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London. © Jeffar Khaldi, 2009
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Saatchi has a knack for picking the hot topic of the hour, but he also has a propensity for the rude and crude. This show of YMEA (Young Middle Eastern Artists) veers into gross-out territory with Sarah Lucas-lite leather-clad dummies of prostitutes and kitchen knives or cheese graters replacing the heads of chador-covered ladies. Much of the sculptural work does however shine, but the paintings disappoint. So many wasted walls of decorative, magical realist figuration are only relieved by the superlative rooms of Ahmed Alsoudani and Tala Madani - one a gnarly, painterly mutilator of twisted metal and charred flesh, the other a tender, hilarious observer of macho idiocy. (OW)
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