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BADER MAHASNEH 'SCULPTING THE WATER' January 5 to 31 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bader Mahasneh retunes to Jacaranda Images as the featured artist for the month of January, showing photographic work drawn from his experiments with the human form. In 'Sculpting the Water' Jordanian artist Bader Mahasneh continues to explore the transparency of life with his photographs. The water shapes are sculptured figurines, humanlike, with life and movement, captured in time for the photograph. Each form has its own character, with a future rather than a past. Shadows from the water shapes form secondary imagery, adding more participants to the story, creating twins, siblings, friends or even antagonists. In some works they serve to anchor the fluid forms, given their uncertain future. Bader’s ability to create a story from a random water splash reflects his eye for exploring and investigating the possibilities of a created moment.
Bader Mahasneh is a multi talented young painter, photographer, illustrator and sculptor. Born in Jerash, Jordan in 1977, he started painting on his own at the age of five.
After graduating with a Bachelors Degree from Yarmouk University in 2002, the artist pursued his early art passion as he became a member at the painting studio at Yarmouk University and won third prize of young artists competition the same year. Shortly after, Bader became involved in many workshops as he took part in designing for the University theatre in 2002-2004 and made sculptures of snow and fire in winter 2003. In the year 2006, Bader participated in several print making workshops at the National Gallery in Amman-Jordan.
His first and second solo exhibitions were held at the French Cultural Center, then his third exhibition at the Orient Gallery. After Orient Gallery exhibition he started seriously making sculptures with a solo exhibition at Zara Gallery of the work. Group exhibitions in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Thailand and Sweden have been held over the past 10 years. Bader's 'Inks on Paper' were featured in a group exhibition in the Bahrain National Museum in May 2009 and at Jacaranda Images in July 2009.
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