Art Of The Day Weekly

#174 - from 13 May 2010 to 19 May 2010


Ody Saban by Mario Goldmann, 1990

Ody Saban's huge appetite

Her mother is a Sephardic Jew, her father a Turkish musician and painter of miniatures and she studied in a French school directed by nuns. Given these conditions, it is not surprising the work of Ody Saban turns around the themes of identity and otherness, travel and the coexistence of peoples. The artist is very involved in the life of the city and has taken the defence of artistic squats. Ody Saban (born in 1953 in Istanbul) is characterized by an art that overflows with colors and shapes, one which unmistakingly makes us think of art brut and Dubuffet or the Boix-Vives. This exuberance, this generosity are found in her variety of modes of expression – oil painting, pen drawing, watercolors, and even video and performance - in a sort of multiformed creative rage that echoes the horror vacui of Baroque artists.
•Ody Saban participe à Cop’Art, a contemporary art manifestation that organizes until 13 June 2010 «joint activities» between artists and local companies in the Meuse region, at the Centre social et culturel de Revigny.

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