قدم قضايا السياسة بشكل إنساني ليست الجائزة ما أراده مراد\ بقلم الصحفي: صقر الصنيدي

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الإثنين, 17-نوفمبر-2014
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بينما كانت المعارك تهب على أجزاء في العاصمة صنعاء كان مراد يرسم لأنه ” مؤمن بأن الحياة أهم من الموت وكما للموت وسائله للحياة أيضا وسائلها ” كما يقول مراد سبيع الفنان الذي سلمته صباح الجمعة الماضية كاثرين كينيدي جائزة الفن من أجل السلام 2014م في مدينة ميلانو بإيطاليا وهي جائزة تمنحها مؤسسة فيرونيزي للفنانين في مؤتمر العلم من أجل السلام .
وبالفعل انتصرت الحياة واستمرت وإن بعثرات وهو ما دفع بالشاب ذي الثلاثة والعشرين ربيعا الى التفكير بالوقت وتسخيره لأجل الفن من خلال الحملة التي اطلق عليها 12 ساعة وفي كل ساعة منها عبر عن قضية تحدث في المجتمع وعن هم يحمله الناس معهم يقول ” كان الهدف أن يفكر الناس بالوقت وأن كل ساعة تمر هي احداث ينتج عنها شيء للمستقبل سواء كان إيجابا أو سلبا ” .
تحدث العابرون عن اللوحات الموجودة على الجدران وايقظت لديهم أكثر من سؤال ولعل أهمها تلك الوجوه التي اختفت بفعل السياسة قسرا وتركت خلفها ألما ودموعا لم تتوقف منذ ما يزيد عن ثلاثين عاما – كانت حملة الساعة الاولى خاصة بالمخفيين قسريا وقد حملت مفاجأة لأقارب المخفيين أن هناك من تذكرهم كما قالت حليمة والدة نبيل الاسيدي الذي اختفى أخوها منذ ما يزيد عن ثلاثين عاما وحين تذكره مراد عبر جداريته تساءلت: من هو مراد وكما روى عنها نبيل فقد اتت بحثا عن هذا الذي أعاد عجلة الامل وحين رأت مراد استعادت شيئاً من رح أخيها الذي ليست متأكدة إن كانت ستراه مجددا – بعثت تلك الساعة قضية هامة وأوصلت رسالة للحاضر أنه لا أحد يستطيع اخفاء إنسان إلى الأبد وأن اخفاءه اليوم فسيرى الوانه على أحد الجدران وستلاحقه صورته طوال حياته .
تكريم الجيل
حصول مراد على الجائزة معناه تكريم جيل كامل ممن حملوا الألوان ومضوا برفقته الى جدران لم تكن تحمل غير آثار الصراع أو عبارات التهيئة لصراع جديد وكما يقول سبيع فان هذا التكريم وغيره لا يخصه وحده بل يشمل كل من ساهم في الإنجاز وحمل الالوان في وقت عصيب وحاول التعبير عن نفسه بالرسم الذي يغني عن ما سواه – يقصد مراد أولئك الذين ساهموا بالرسم في اولى الحملات لون جدار شارعك والتي قادتهم نحو أن يكتشفوا مواهبهم في الرسم وايقظت داخلهم مهارة كانوا قد نسوها منذ طفولتهم .
وهم في الغالب أناس عاديين يعملون في مجالات مختلفة ليس منها الرسم جعلهم تشجيع مراد يقدمون على الرسم على الجدران القريبة منهم – وانطلقت من تلك الحملة أسماء كثيرة أصبح لها مسارها وطريقتها بالتعبير من هذه الاسماء ذو يزن العلوي الذي تبنى فيما بعد فكرة كاركاتير الشارع والذي زين عددا من شوارعنا .
حماية من النسيان
بالمقابل يعلمك العمل مع المارين وجه لوجه الكثير من المهارات الجديدة في التعامل ومن لا يمتلك سعة في نفسه فلن يستطيع إكمال ما بدأ وكان يمكن أن يوقف البعض مراد عند أول لوحة لكنه أصر على مواجهتهم بالابتسامة كأفضل الردود على سخريتهم وتهكمهم على ما يقوم به فكلما هاجمه أحد في الشارع وانتقد قيامه بالرسم على الجدار بادر مراد للابتسامة سلاحه الذي لا ينفع مع البعض فيلجأ الى اقناعهم بالكلمات ويشرح قيمة ما يقدمه اللون لحياتنا .
وقد يذهب الى تجاهل من يرى في أعينهم عناداً وكراهية للفن والرسالة فيلقون ما لديهم من كلمات محبطة ويتذكر هو أمله الكبير في تغيير العالم من حولنا بإرداتنا كما يقول .
الجدل الذي يصاحب وضع الالوان على الجدران والنقاش والتغيير الذي يراه سبيع في افكار الناس هو اكبر الجوائز التي ينالها كل يوم – الاثر الذي تخلفه لوحة هو اجمل الدروع التي يرتديها والايادي الممتدة الى الجدار لتقيمه بالألوان وليس لتهدمه هي التي يشعر بها تصافحه دائما بدون ملل .
إن أكبر جائزة نمنحه لهذا الفنان هي أن نحافظ على الوانه المسكوبة على جدراننا أن نحميها من النسيان ومن الأيادي
الطائشة .

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SCIENCE FOR PEACE IN 2014, THE ART FOR PEACE AWARD AT MURAD SUBAY, GRAFFITI ARTIST YEMENI\ Huffington Post

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Science for Peace in 2014, the Art for Peace Award at Murad Subay, graffiti artist Yemeni (PHOTOS)

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MURAD SUBAY

When in June 2013 the Dutch freelance journalist Judith Spiegel and his companion were kidnapped, Murad Subay entrusted to the walls the message of indignation of the vast majority of Yemenis: a depiction of the two European smiling and the words “We are sorry, Judith.”

When December 5, 2013, the day of the death of Nelson Mandela, a terrorist attack left 56 dead on the ground in a hospital in the capital, Murad Subay decided that the minute of silence decided by the government was not enough. He picked up the names and all the photos that could. A few months later, with a group of young artists Yemenis, drew on the walls of the hospital hit the faces and names of the victims, almost all medical and health personnel.

That’s who is the artist who Science for Peace has decided to award this year with the Art for Peace Award, an important recognition given to artists who have distinguished themselves for their commitment to peace. Subay Murad was born in 1987 , so young and yet is the father of the art of graffiti in Yemen. Began to talk the walls in March 2012 through the campaign ” Colour your’s Wall Street , “at which he encouraged the Yemeni citizens, especially the young, to color the walls damaged by the civil war broke out in Yemen in 2011.

In 2012 he launched the campaign Walls Remember , during which the walls of the streets of the capital Subay and his group of artists drew portraits of 102 people missing in previous years, nearly all for political reasons. The initiative, told the same Subay, led to the identification of one of desparecidos Yemenis. “We had a political purpose, so we suffered repeated vandalism and attempts to deface the faces. Our tools are simple but effective, which is why we were targeted. ”

This year Subay launched its third campaign entitled ” 12 Hours “, to illustrate the twelve major policy challenges facing the horizon Yemeni through graffiti art. The reasons for the assignment of the Art for Peace Award are all here: Murad has managed to create an artistic movement and not a pacifist anti-political, indeed, that aims to raise awareness towards politics. It involved a high number of people from civil society in a country plagued by war for more than 50 years.

“Street art is not only my voice, but recently it has also become one of many Yemenis, as it addresses the main problems affecting the country’s inhabitants.All Yemenis want peace and a life of dignity. I saw many people paint their dreams on the walls in the hope that one day become reality. This award has enormous significance for me and for the people who took part in the project and represent the soul of my campaigns art as it is a recognition of our humble work and commitment. In addition, the prize is a strong signal of encouragement for my team of artists and for myself. In essence, it is an acknowledgment, all Yemenis. “

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صور من حفل تسلمي جائزة “الفن من أجل السلام 2014” في مدينة ميلانو، إيطاليا. During my speech in the receiving the award of Art for Peace 2014, Milan, Italy.

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Yemen, graffiti sui muri di Sanaa per voltare pagina. Mourad Subai, dopo gli slogan politici, torna a fare arte\TM News

لقائي مع قناة “TMNews” الإيطالية، أثناء حملة “لون جدار شارعك” قبل حوالي ثلاثة أعوام.
On “TMNews” Italian Chanal, during “Color your street’s wall”campaign, three years ago.
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Roma, (TMNews) – L’arte diventa lo strumento ideale per voltare pagina dopo la rivoluzione nello Yemen. Mourad Subai, che prima aveva riempito i muri della capitale Sanaa con scritte e slogan politici, ha ora deciso di sostituirli con murales e opere d’arte. I suoi graffiti, infatti, ora decorano i muri della città. Un modo, secondo il giovane artista 24enne, di far cambiare idea al popolo, che si lascia alle spalle un anno di profonda crisi politica. “Il popolo yemenita è stato profondamente coinvolto nella politica degli ultimi mesi. L’unico tema di discussione era la politica. Allora ho pensato che l’arte poteva essere il solo modo di allontanare gli eventi politici e di far pensare ad altre cose”.I murales di Mourad decorano anche quartieri come questo, dove sostenitori e oppositori dell’ex presidente Saleh si sono spesso scontrati.Nello Yemen non c’è alcuna legge che impedisce l’arte di strada. E Maourad ha tutta l’intenzione di continuare nella sua opera.

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“الوطن يتمزق بأيدي أبنائه” “La patrie déchirée par son propre peuple.”

 

“الوطن يتمزق بأيدي أبنائه”
“La patrie déchirée par son propre peuple.”

صوره لجدارية “العبث بوطن” على الموقع الفرنسي “الليموند، كورير إنترناشيونال”
Photo of “Tempering with our Homeland” on “Le Monde, Courrier international”

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Yemen. I graffiti politici che risvegliano le coscienze\By: Anna Toro

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Yemen. I graffiti politici che risvegliano le coscienze

Una serie di murales per raccontare le questioni cruciali che affiggono il paese: l’idea è del giovane Murad Subay, artista e attivista che in questi ultimi anni il pubblico ha imparato a conoscere come il “Banksy yemenita”, grazie alle sue campagne politiche e sociali a suon di spray e colori per le piazze e strade della capitale.

L’ultima, le cui immagini hanno fatto il giro del mondo, si chiama “12 hours” (Dodici ore) e mira a evidenziare i “mali” dello Yemen, incentrando ogni ora dell’orologio su un tema diverso: dal settarismo al rapimento degli stranieri, dall’incarcerazione degli oppositori politici agli attacchi dei droni statunitensi nel paese.

“Dopo la rivoluzione – scrive Subay – mi sono reso conto che l’anima del popolo yemenita era frantumata a causa della guerra e della situazione all’interno del paese. Ho visto che gli edifici e le strade erano danneggiati e pieni di proiettili. Così sono andato su Facebook e ho detto che il giorno dopo sarei andato in piazza a dipingere. E così ho fatto”.

Alla chiamata su Facebook è seguita una massiccia risposta da parte dei cittadini, che si sono recati fuori con Subay e l’hanno aiutato a dipingere le pareti con potenti messaggi su governo, politica e ingiustizie sociali.

Lo scopo dell’artista, pienamente riuscito, è infatti coltivare la consapevolezza dei problemi in modo pacifico e partecipativo. E quale mezzo più immediato per arrivare al cuore della gente, se non i colori, l’arte e la strada?

Così, grazie a questa campagna durata un intero anno, dalle pareti hanno preso vita le tante ferite della storia yemenita degli ultimi 30 anni, visibili da tutti, e perciò diventate un atto di resistenza e di protesta. Non a caso, è capitato che diverse opere di Subay fossero state rimosse, rovinate o coperte.

La prima ora della campagna, ad esempio, è dedicata al problema della violenza armata in Yemen, un paese che, secondo i dati 2012 di Aljazeera, ha il secondo più alto tasso di possesso di armi nel mondo.

La seconda ora affronta invece il tema del settarismo, lo scontro tra sciiti e sunniti che da tempo provoca tensioni tra le due sette religiose. La popolazione dello Yemen, infatti, è divisa tra circa il 45% musulmani sciiti e il 55% di musulmani sunniti, il cui divario ha portato negli ultimi tempi a manifestazioni di odio, fanatismo, e rivolte.

La terza ora racconta delle sparizioni forzate, di arresti e carcerazioni di cui il governo continua a negare il suo coinvolgimento. In realtà si tratta di veri e propri rapimenti di stato, un tema che l’artista aveva precedentemente affrontato nella campagna creativa “The walls remember their faces” (I muri ricordano i loro volti) in cui i volti delle persone disperse apparivano sulle strade accanto al luogo e la data della loro scomparsa, scritti in arabo e in inglese.

Anche quella volta il successo di partecipazione da parte del pubblico era stato enorme.

Toccanti ed evocativi i graffiti dedicati al problema dei droni statunitensi nei cieli yemeniti, con le loro vittime civili “collaterali”, fonte di traumi e terrore per la popolazione.

Secondo una ricerca dello psicologo forense inglese Peter Schaapveld, ben il 92 per cento del campione di popolazione da lui esaminata è risultato essere affetto da disturbo da stress post-traumatico, che colpisce soprattutto donne e bambini. Si parla infatti di “un’intera generazione traumatizzata”.

Ma i “mali” dello Yemen non sono finiti: ed ecco che troviamo murales sul terrorismo, sulla povertà, sulla guerra civile, sul reclutamento dei bambini nei conflitti.

Ricchi di elementi simbolici sono poi quelli dedicati ai torbidi rapporti tra l’Arabia Saudita, l’Iran e gli Stati Uniti, che attraverso il pompaggio di denaro – e non solo – esercitano una forte influenza su tutte le decisioni politiche yemenite (e infatti si chiama la loro “ora” si chiama “Treason”, tradimento).

Infine si parla di corruzione, di stigmatizzazione ed emarginazione, per chiudere con un auspicio positivo, ovvero la “condivisione” della pace, con una strizzata d’occhio al web e ai social network.

Tanto grande è stato l’impatto di questi muri in tutto il mondo, che Murad Subay, nato nel 1987 nella provincia di Thamar, ha ricevuto diversi riconoscimenti, tra cui il premio internazionale “Arte per la pace” della Fondazione Veronesi.

L’artista ci racconta via mail di essere proprio in questi giorni alle prese con le pratiche per il passaporto, pronto per venire in Italia alla premiazione ufficiale che si terrà questo novembre.

 

Per visitare la gallery sul nostro sito clicca qui.
Si ringrazia Murad Subay per la gentile concessione delle foto. 

 

12 Ottobre 2014
di: Anna Toro
Area Geografica: Yemen

Art for Peace Award 2014

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PACE COME CONDIZIONE DEL BENESSERE

14 – 15 NOVEMBRE 2014 UNIVERSITÀ BOCCONI, MILANO

Un premio per chi promuove una cultura di pace.

Ogni anno Science for Peace assegna l’Art for Peace Award, un riconoscimento importante riservato agli artisti che si sono distinti nella diffusione di un messaggio di pace.

Quest’anno l’Art for Peace Award verrà assegnato a Murad Subay, giovane artista yemenita che ha dato vita quasi interamente da solo allo sviluppo dell’arte dei graffiti nello Yemen a partire dal 2012, all’indomani della Primavera Araba nel suo paese.
Il premio verrà consegnato a Murad durante la 6° edizione della Conferenza Mondiale, venerdì 14 Novembre 2014.

“A livello personale, i graffiti sono stati e rappresentano tuttora una fase fondamentale della mia vita, durante la quale ho scoperto me stesso. La street art non è soltanto la mia voce, ma di recente è diventata anche quella di molti yemeniti, poiché affronta i problemi principali che colpiscono gli abitanti del paese. Tutti gli yemeniti desiderano la pace e una vita dignitosa. Ho visto tantissime persone dipingere i loro sogni su muri nella speranza che un giorno diventino realtà. Questo premio ha un enorme significato per me e per le persone che hanno preso parte al progetto e rappresentano l’anima delle mie campagne artistiche, poiché è un riconoscimento del nostro umile lavoro e impegno. Inoltre, il premio è un segnale forte di incoraggiamento per il mio team di artisti e per me stesso. In sostanza, è un riconoscimento che premia tutti gli yemeniti.”Murad Subay

LE EDIZIONI PRECEDENTI

  • 2013alla cantante Fatoumata Diawara, in arte Fatou
    Per il forte impegno che la sua musica rivela a favore dei diritti delle donne del suo paese, il Mali.

  • 2012allo scrittore e saggista israeliano David Grosmann
    per la sua continua testimonianza a favore del dialogo e di dissenso nei confronti dell’uso della violenza.

  • 2011al fotoreporter Joao Silva
    perchè i suoi scatti hanno sempre denunciato la necessità di un cambiamento e la volontà di raggiungerlo

  • 2010al regista Xavier Beauvois
    per il suo mirabile film “Uomini di Dio” tratto dalla storia vera dei monaci di Tibhirine, emblema di tolleranza e umana fraternità, uccisi da terroristi della Gia.

  • 2009al Maestro Daniel Barenboim
    per aver creato la West-Eastern Diva Orchestra che riunisce musicisti palestinesi e israeliani.

HELEN DAY EXHIBIT SHOWCASES PROTEST ART

 

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Helen Day exhibit showcases protest art

 

Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:00 am | Updated: 5:07 pm, Fri Sep 26, 2014.

During the daytime, the 10-foot-long, cool blue sign hanging on the Helen Day Art Center blends in under cloudless skies, but as night falls, the words are a piercing electric blue message in Arabic: “We are with you in the night.”

The sentiment is borrowed from graffiti found in Italian cities during the 1970s, showing solidarity with and support for political prisoners.

Whatever the language, whatever the era, though, the message resonates. And the neon sign is an apt way to draw people into the art center’s newest exhibit.

“Unrest: Art, Activism & Revolution” opened during the weekend at the Helen Day, and it’s a melange of artistic media that rewards deep exposure, and a lingering visit.

Rachel Moore, the art center’s assistant director, curated the exhibit; she says “Unrest” looks at the ways art can be used in the 21st century to spark changes in rough parts of the world.

“When you’re right in the middle of protests, to be able to create art is just amazing,” Moore said last week while showing off the exhibit.

She was inspired to put it together after watching the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and all through the Arab world. So it’s fitting that “We Are With You in the Night,” by French artist collective Claire Fontaine, has a prominent role in this collection of work by artists who at some point could have used the solace found in the neon sign. (Claire Fontaine is a group of artists who present their work under the name of a fictional artist.)

“They are all trying to pursue their own goals, but taken all together, you get an overarching theme,” Moore said.

So it is with Lara Baladi, an Egyptian-Lebanese artist who was on the ground in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during Egypt’s uprising. Baladi took note of the images and videos of the protests in the square that were being uploaded to the Internet, more and more as the political tension increased. She began to archive them, and expanded her archive to include similar events around the world, and broadcast them to the world in real time. The piece “Alone, Together … In Media Res” is the result of that collecting.

So it is with the people of Culiacan, in western Mexico, as they give up their guns to artist Pedro Reyes, who turns them into shovels. In return for the guns, Reyes gave them coupons for domestic appliances or electronics. He collected more than 1,500 weapons, almost half of them high-powered military-use guns. The piece “Palas por Pistolas” features five gleaming new shovels, hung minimalist-style on a white wall in the gallery, the documentary on repeat nearby.

Proving the power of graffiti art — and not the peurile kind that a Stowe scofflaw recently peppered portions of the area with — is artist Murad Subay, emerging as Yemen’s very own Banksy. The display “12 Hours” takes up one whole wall of the “Unrest” exhibit, an image that turns graffiti on its head by literally stamping out sentiments such as child poverty, drones, sectarianism, kidnapping, poverty.

“Unrest” may have been inspired by the protests in the Middle East, but there’s plenty of room in America for art of the revolution. And prankster-activists The Yes Men’s collaboration with artist Steve Lambert is one worth spending some time with while in the Helen Day gallery. Titled “New York Times Special Edition,” it’s exactly what it sounds like, a copy of the venerable Gray Lady.

Except it’s not. Look closer at the November 2008 paper, printed right after Barack Obama was elected president. The headline screams “Iraq War Ends,” and the front page is dotted with other future utopian articles that are, as it cleverly says “All the News We Hope to Print.” The Yes Men and Lambert circulated 80,000 of these around New York City, their answer to what ought to be making news.

Many of the artists in “Unrest” are famous enough to have been featured in places such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Now, though, they live side by side in Stowe for the next two months. Moore thinks they work well together, which is kind of the point of what these artists are doing for their own causes.

Said Moore, “The artists I picked may be located in one place or another, but this is more holistic, like they’re trying to figure it out for everyone.”

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My mural in the 5th Hour “Drones” on the cover of the Dutch magazine “MILITAIRE”. Photo by: Yahya Arhab

 


جداريتي في الساعة الخامسة “الطائرات بدون طيار الأمريكية” على واجهة غلاف مجلة “ميليتاير سبيكتيتور” الألمانية. الصوره من تصوير مراسل الوكاله الأوربية “يحيى عرهب”.

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