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EDGE OF ARABIA Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting) 30 May–24 September 2013 Collateral Event of the  55th Venice Biennale Magazzini del Sale No. 262 Dorsoduro Fondamenta delle Zattere Venice (ACTV stop: Line 1, Salute) Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm Admission free www.edgeofarabia.com Rhizome :  A plant stem that grows horizontally under or along the ground and often sends out roots and shoots. New plants develop from the shoots. Ginger, iris, and violets have rhizomes. Also called   rootstock ( Greek   rhiz ma ,   mass of roots , from   rhizoun ,   to cause to take root , from   rhiza ,   root ; see   wr d-   in Indo-European roots). Curated by London-based curator Sara Raza and Saudi-based poet, artist and curator Ashraf Fayadh,  Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting)  refers to the newcoming artists in the Saudi Arabia art scene who are challenging the force of gravity with their projects. Sara Raza explains:...

Four new artists have just been nominated as shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013' edition. The nominees are: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shringley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Congratulations to all of them!!! I feel particularly supportive to artist Laure Prouvost, who I had the chance to meet some years ago in London at a bus stop. We were both coming out from a conference on British Films where she was speaking and I was listening. We had a very nice conversation on our way back home (we discovered that we were living closeby, somewhere in Hackney). I always kept a very nice memory of this meeting and I found myself to support her work since then. So a double good luck to Laure Prouvost from me!!! Named after painter J. M. W. Turner, the prize is awarded every year to ‘a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding’.The ceremony takes place at Tate Britain in London. Since his ince...