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The Saatchi Gallery hosts its artist “Showdown” as a means of promoting and rewarding artists that demonstrate themselves as possessing extraordinary talent. It is also a means of getting popular opinion on the works of these up-and-coming artists. Over a one-week period, Saatchi accepts one piece of art work from each artist that chooses to enter the contest. Submissions are accepted between 9:00 a.m. on Monday until 6:00 p.m. on the following Sunday. Voting then begins, and each visitor to the site is allowed to rate the quality of each piece of work submitted. Visitors may vote on as many pieces as they wish, but are allotted only one vote for each individual piece. They indicate their preference for a particular work by rating it on a scale of one (1) to ten (10). After the scores are tallied, a duel begins between the two artists who have attained the highest scores. These two leaders vie for a chance to enter the final showdown, where the winners of twelve such rounds go head to head for the final prize of £1000 for the winner and £750 for the runner up.
Entrance into this event on the Saatchi website is free and easy, and it holds the promise of furthering the careers of not just the talented winners but also of the wide variety of talented entrants whose works will be seen by Saatchi’s large viewing audience. The competition is also a means of exposing young artists to the triumphs and pitfalls that are likely to attend them throughout their entire artistic career. Therefore, artists not only get the chance to benefit monetarily, but also the chance to develop as a professional businessperson.

Tala Madini paints a provocative and humorous discourse on cultural and sexual identity. Picturing the male domain in all its stereotypical glory, Madini’s portraits of Middle Eastern men play out fictive rituals of a deviant, distinctly female imagination: prayer gatherings twisted into homosexual orgies, birthday parties targeted for terrorist attack, and tattoos and body hair plucking construed as the latest in ultra-macho beauty makeovers. In devising her scenes of aberrant ceremony, Madini pinpoints the very essence of frustration, fervour, and inadequacy.

Appropriating the preconceptions of racial and gender difference as a departure point into the bizarre and surreal, Madini uses her position of ‘other’ to draft her own elaborate fantasies, detailing a riotous underworld of cliquey sect-like subterfuge. The motif of the birthday cake recurs in Madini’s paintings as an emblem of masculine ego. The impotence of melting candles protracting to the ultimate conclusion of ‘blow them out/blow them up’, as pink gooey pastries become the signature trademark of her maverick suicide bombers.

BIOGRAPHY

1981

Born in Tehran, Iran



Lives and works in New Haven

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

Lombard-Freid Projects, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

Green Gallery, Graduate Show, Yale University

2003

Fairbanks Gallery, Senior Exhibition, Oregon State University

Studio 580, Group Show, Bend

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Tala Madini assured fusion of the formal and the narrative evokes both Persian miniatures and Western political cartoons. The cakes are apparently multipurpose instruments of celebration, torture and ritual bonding. In “Chest Burn” and “Hand Burn on Back” men char their hands over the candles and then press them into other men’s flesh. In “Embodying Cake” one man places candles on the heavily tattooed shoulders of another. Elsewhere the cakes suggest bombs, ski masks or soap.

Read Entire Article about Artist Tala Madani paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/tala_madani.htm

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