tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16496719295429980272024-03-12T18:48:43.610-07:00The Parasite DimensionCarim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-35073769140233883572014-02-14T03:15:00.004-08:002014-02-14T03:15:49.557-08:00<br />
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Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-71045053152870546692014-01-29T08:02:00.004-08:002014-01-29T08:05:18.348-08:00Recent Work...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ornithoptera alexandrae atavus (detail showing the 22ct Gold leaf in raking light)</div>
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Ornithoptera alexandrae atavus (including 22ct gold leaf applied to the hind wing spots)</div>
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Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-76312670456259706912013-09-08T09:37:00.000-07:002013-09-08T09:37:09.031-07:00Parrot Skull<br />
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Handmade Parrot / Macaw skull replica, made in 13 separate parts from Fimo polymer clay, painted with acrylics. </div>
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Recently I reared five Death's Heads from egg to adult, the caterpillars were fed on privet and I have now framed two of the adult moths, (male above, female below)</div>
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Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-68438192144600082302013-08-13T02:01:00.001-07:002013-08-13T02:01:41.599-07:00Fimo Sloth Skull<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not 100% accurate, I know, but it's a first attempt for me at making a skull replica with Fimo polymer clay. Based on a young Sloth skull, with separate lower jaw, painted with acrylic.<br />
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The Buff tailed Bumblebee, <i>Bombus terrestris</i>. 80 x 60cm graphite and charcoal on blotting paper. Our bees are in decline and without them our world would become an unrecognisable place. Prints available</div>
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<i>Atropa belladonna</i> (Deadly Nightshade) and <i>Acherontia atropos</i> (Death's Head Hawk Moth) - both named after Atropos, the Greek Goddess of fate. Fibre-tip pen on cartridge paper, A3. Prints will be available soon.<br />
Inspired by my recent rearing of Death's Head Moths.</div>
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<br />Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-8087226828772033072013-01-15T13:31:00.001-08:002013-01-15T13:31:49.795-08:00New PageI have set up a new facebook page for my artwork and illustration. Please like and share, or just take a look and maybe leave a comment! Thanks to anyone who has already liked, and to all those who follow my blog and appreciate my work.<br />
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To visit The Art of Carim Nahaboo: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ArtOfCarimNahaboo">http://www.facebook.com/ArtOfCarimNahaboo</a><br />
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I will still be posting to The Parasite Dimension, the facebook page contains a lot more photos of work, some of which is older, enjoy!Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-18301863468895107572013-01-14T07:10:00.003-08:002013-01-14T07:10:51.258-08:00Cerambus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cerambus, being transformed into a beetle by the Nymphs. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Decided to get some prints done of some previous work, pen and ink drawings of dead insects,<i> Lucanus cervus</i> male and female (European Stag Beetle) and <i>Linnaemya vulpina</i>, a Tachinid (parasitic) fly. </span></div>
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Also available: Very limited print run - Stag Beetle, <i>Lucanus cervus</i> Etching<br />Only 6 un-framed prints available from 2008 print run. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The Storm of Hera. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Acrylic on wood ~ 5.5 x 5.5 inches</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">In the ancient Greek myth of the tale of Io, Zeus falls for the beauty of Io and his wife, Hera, realises this. In an attempt to hide Io Zeus turns her into a white cow, and Hera demands this animal as a gift of his love, she has the hundred eyed Argus to guard the cow day and night until one night his is slain and Io is set free. Hera in her infinite fury summons a host of biting gadflies to chase and torment Io - as these flies drink the blood of cattle. Io is chased over the world and through time until she eventually gives birth. In my version Io succumbs to the torments and the summoned storm of Hera. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">One of my illustrations is currently hanging in an exhibition in Slovenia based around the rare beetle </span><i style="text-align: start;"><b>Anophthalmus hitleri</b></i><span style="text-align: start;">. The beetle was given an unfortunate name and the species has paid for it almost to the point of extinction, This exhibition ('Situation Anophthalmus hitleri') highlights the negative impact that man can have on the natural world through subtle means such as naming a species. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Various artists and illustrators, including entomologists, were asked to depict the beetle in a dorsal view, but only creating the image from the latin </span><i style="text-align: start;">Anophthalmus hitleri </i><span style="text-align: start;">name, to show how our perceptions can be so easily influenced. My illustration is in the bottom right corner of the above image, The general body shape represents a WW2 bomb and the patterns in the texture of the beetle's elytra form a swastika:</span></div>
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The exhibition is on until December 1st, and will possibly touring to other counties in the future. There is a Slovenian TV news report in the following link:<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">Jasmina Cibic’s projects are conceived as a type of <i>gesamtkunstwerk</i>, embracing variations of delegated performance and delegated object-making, combining works by specialist practitioners such as architects and scientists, as well as factories and craftsmen, chosen for their historical and contextual relevance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">In her new project, Cibic investigates two key moments within the construction and survival of national icons and their myths, namely their invention and the chosen (architectonic) dispositive that channels their perception by the spectator.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">The artist conceived this project for the city of Maribor during its year as European Capital of Culture specifically for its main underground exhibition space. As is often the case with such events, countries are compelled to present local specificities and ethnic diversities as both unique and benign. Focusing on various historic moments and their part in national myth making and its presentation, Cibic critiques the drive toward new assemblages of critically devoid faux icons of national export, where historical baggage and <i>nouvelle </i>cultural identity constructions are far from resolved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The project begins with the story of the discovery of one of Slovenia’s endemic species, <i>Anophthalmus hitleri</i>, a cave beetle which has recently entered the endangered species list solely because of its name. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">Discovered in 1933 and named by an admirer of Hitler in 1937, this blind beetle marks an un-erasable ideological moment as, according to the rules of Linnaean taxonomy, animal and plant names cannot be changed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">In 2006, National Geographic magazine published an article on the insect and, soon after, prices for <i>hitleri</i> began to soar, resulting in this small blind creature coming close to extinction.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">Cibic has</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;"> worked with over forty international entomologists and scientific illustrators, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">including associates of The Natural Museum in London, the US Department of Agriculture, the Zoological Museum at Tel Aviv University, and others,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;"> who produced illustrations of the <i>hitleri</i> beetle. The artist instructed the scientists to base their work solely on their experience in entomology and their interpretation of the beetle’s Latin name, without consulting any visual or descriptive reference. The final works will be presented as an integral part of Cibic’s underground installation as an</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;"> encyclopedic-like display.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">Situation Anophthalmus hitleri</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;"> forms an installation environment where actual <i>hitleri</i> beetles are presented within a series of models of the modernist pavilions for trade fairs designed by Vinko Glanz, the chief protocol architect of post-war Yugoslavia. The models were realised in crystal by the Slovene company Rogaška, from the historical archives of their product moulds. This company has been a major producer of national souvenirs and protocol gifts for decades and is one of the few that managed to survive the various political systems in this country.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">Glanz was the chosen government protocol architect in former Yugoslavia and as such, an architect who realised most of the ‘translations’ of the architecture of previous regimes in the country. His renovation and rebuilding projects included Tito’s residences in Bled (Vila Bled) and on the Brioni Islands, The People’s Assembly (today the Slovene Parliament) and Grad Brdo, the government’s main venue for diplomatic meetings. Because of the nature of his work, Glanz remained practically unpublished and very little of his work is to be found in the state archives.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times;">The transcript is the basis for a film script which Cibic wrote with Ken Pratt, an essayist and curator of contemporary art, and Brian Fillis, a British scriptwriter whose work includes drama and film scripts for Channel 4, the BBC and others. Filming took place at Vila Bled on exactly the same date as the aforementioned political debate on art and architecture began 55 years ago. The short film will be projected within the installation, presenting the unresolved dialogue between art and architecture and questioning their mutual implications within the formation of national iconography that is echoed in our contemporary condition.</span></div>
Carim Nahaboohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285876941038174078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1649671929542998027.post-60099163040120186902012-11-10T12:09:00.004-08:002012-11-10T12:09:37.495-08:00The Gilded Fly - Memento Mori<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pen & Ink, A5.<br />Based on an Ossuary Photograph from 'The Empire of Death' - book by Paul Koudounaris.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">.... well, sort of. - Recent test pieces, dead insect specimens cast in Polyester Resin with polyester pigment. </span></div>
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