Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila - Montage / Collage
Dissociation of Time Between Reality and Idols
On Music and Architecture: One Passion
This project is a collage series based on Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Montage Collage, featuring Mashrou'Leila's "IBEN EL LEIL" idol. Born of a nocturnal encounter at the American University of Beirut in 2008, Mashrou’ Leila is a four-member band that fuses the craftiness of a music workshop with the punch of stadium rock. With their distinct approach to storytelling and orchestration, they have crafted some of the most melancholic ballads and raucous anthems in contemporary alternative Arabic music, and went on to perform them live at sold-out venues across the world.
Their albums unfold like cinematographic fictions starring lovesick characters in desolate motels or wandering insomniacs in ghostly cities. At times quirky and playful, at others bitter and somber, the songs demonstrate the band’s great versatility in dealing with musical form, narrative, and social issues.
Their albums unfold like cinematographic fictions starring lovesick characters in desolate motels or wandering insomniacs in ghostly cities. At times quirky and playful, at others bitter and somber, the songs demonstrate the band’s great versatility in dealing with musical form, narrative, and social issues.
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila; Different Perspectives on Modernism (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila; Different Perspectives on Modernism (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila; Different Perspectives on Modernism (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila; Different Perspectives on Modernism (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Mies Van Der Rohe x Mashrou'Leila; Different Perspectives on Modernism (collage by Rana AL BABA)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most important architects, created numerous montages and collages between 1910 and 1965 that are fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. These works, most of them large-format, are far more than merely sketches that accompanied his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that show Mies van der Rohe's structural vision in its purest form. Like almost no other visual art technique, collage and photomontage reflect the aesthetic principles, the zeitgeist, and the attitude to life of Modernism. At the beginning of the 20th century, war, revolution and industrialization caused a shift in the way the modern world and progress were experienced and perceived, a shift that found expression in equal measure in newspapers and magazines, in visual and performing arts. Collage and photomontage were also soon being used in architecture. Influenced by Dada, Constructivism, and De Stijl, Mies van der Rohe exploited these new techniques - to a far greater extent than most of his contemporaries - to visualize his creative ideas on "New Building" (Neues Bauen).
P.S. All rights reserved to Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Mashrou'Leila. It's important to mention that what I did is just a collage / montage based on a collage / montage, and not by any mean a breaching of the copyright law. This series is just my own visualization of the ART done by Mashrou'Leila and how they changed the music scene and contributed to the contemporary cultural context.
