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“Traces of Jordan” exhibition
From December 19, 2024 until March 15, 2025Mondays through Fridays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. Closed on weekends and holidays.
CORDOBA
Closed on from 24 to december 25 and from december 31 to january 01
Casa Árabe exhibition halls (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
Mondays through Fridays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. Closed on weekends and holidays.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
As of Thursday, December 19, you can visit this exhibition in Cordoba,
with works by Jordanian sculptor Anees Maani, in which he explores the
evolution of forms in nature and human culture. The display is a
collaborative effort between Casa Árabe, the Tourism Office of Jordan
and the Jordanian Embassy in Spain.
During 2024 Casa Árabe worked with the ”Jordan Country Focus”, giving us a closer look at the region’s current political situation and its cultural richness, in which history, tradition and modernity converge. Because of its location and past, Jordan represents one of the most important links in the Middle East. Perhaps best known for its archeological sites and its spectacular landscapes, it also stands out for its colorful handicrafts and the flavors of its local dishes. History, written in the wrinkles on its people’s faces, are shown to us through the eyes of photographer Ghassan Sela at the exhibition “Faces of Jordan”.
A second part of this exhibition is now coming to Cordoba thanks to Jordanian sculptor Anees Maani. Maani’s work explores the evolution of forms in nature and human culture. They are traces, vestiges and signposts of distant events. The artist, raised in the environs of the country’s best-known archeological site, Petra, researches the history of these formations and observes their growth and decay. He places a particular focus on the different materials used and the effects of the environment; the forms they take on and why they gain notoriety in different contexts or in different organisms.
The current exhibition at Casa Árabe will include his work Arabia Petraea Felix, which studies and explores ancient abstract geometric sculptures found in the Nabataean kingdom or in ancient Yemen, as well as Bits of Petra and some of his Miniatures.
This exhibition could be visited at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid from July 12 to October 6, 2024.
Work by Anees Maani.