Posted by artradar on March 31, 2009
SAUDI ART MARKET
A group of Saudi artists will appear for the first time at international auction at Christies April sale in Dubai. This follows the inaugural entry of Saudi Arabia to Art Dubai fair last month.
Lulwah Al Homoud
Christies:
Christie’s will be offering a selection of works by Saudi Arabian artists in their sale of International Modern and Contemporary Art that will be held on April 29 in Dubai.
This is the first time that a group of work from Saudi Arabia has been included in their international auction.
The sale will include works by six contemporary artists including Ahmed Mater Al Ziad Aseeri and Lulwah Al Homoud, reflecting the vibrancy of the Kingdom’s young artistic talent.
Michael Jeha, Managing Director of Christie’s Middle East said: We have noticed a significant increase in the number of buyers at our sales from the Middle East with 75 per cent of the Dubai art sale buyers last year from the region, up from an average of 50 per cent in previous years. With the introduction of this group of Saudi Arabian lots we are hoping to continue this trend and further extend the reach of the sales to collectors throughout the region.”
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Ahmed Mater
Art Dubai
Speaking at a packed press conference full of foreign journalists, Co-Founder and Director of Art Dubai John Martin said “Among the 26 participating countries, Saudi Arabia has entered the show for the first time with a gallery display of Saudi-based artists,” he added.
Noha Al Sharif
The Jeddah-based Athr Gallery, which recently featured in the “Edge of Saudi Arabia” show in London, will present works by artists such as Shadia Alem, Lulwah Al-Homoud, Baseim Al-Shargi, Noha Al-Sharif, Abdullah Hammas, Ahmed Mater, Bakur Sheikhoon and Ayman Yusri.
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Posted by artradar on December 29, 2008
ART BIENNIAL AFRICA EGYPT
The opening ceremony of the 11th Cairo International Biennale took place on 21 December 2008. Past versions of this state-organised biennial have been slammed by critics:
The 10th edition of the Cairo International Biennale could have very well been the 8th or 9th….(and)once again highlights the division that exists in the local art circuit between the establishment, namely state-sponsored arts institutions including that of the Biennale, and the private or so-called independent art sector. Moreover, like it’s predecessors, a clear lack of curatorial direction in the selection makes the range of works on exhibition seem disconnected from each other as well as from international contemporary art practices from which the Biennale organisers claim to be operating from within.
NAFAS art magazine
We will have to wait for all the reviews to come in before we can determine the consensus view of the 11th edition but, whatevever the outcome, there is interesting art to explore. Here are Radar’s favourites:
Adel Abidin (Iraq 1973) – film sculpture. Now lives in Helsinki. He has exhibited in the Venice Biennale and MOCA Taipei and has been featured in international publications including Le Monde, Guardian, New York Times www.adelabidin.com
- Kimsooja (Korea 1957) multimedia from video to sewn works, exhibited at Sao Paolo Biennial and Venice Biennale Kimsooja’s website
Lotus
The principles of harmony and oneness are reflected in Kimsooja’s installation Lotus Zone of Zero, 2008, currently housed at Rotunda at Galerie Ravenstein in Brussels through January 18, 2009. The site specific installation consists of approximately 2000 lanterns shaped as lotus flowers. The visual is accompanied by sound in the form of Tibetan, Gregorian and Islamic chants that merge in the center of the space. Honoring a vision of peace, the work embodies the dance between individuality and universality, yin and yang, and a potential future for planet earth.
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Find below a complete list of artists from the Asian continent:
Azerbaijan: Adil Yusifov
Bahrain: Waheeda Malullah
Bangladesh: Firoz Mahmoud
China: Qiu Anxiong
Egypt: Adel Amien Al-Siwy, Arman Agoub Gubian, Essam Mohamed Maarouf, Hanafi Mahmoud Khalaf alla. Wael Kamal Wahby Fahmy Darwish
Iraq: Adel Abidin, Ali Assaf El-Gabry, Tamara Nouri
Japan : Haruko Yamashita
- Hani Hourani
Jordan: Hani Hourani
Korea: Kimsooja
Kuwait: Shorouk Amin
Lebanon: Khaled Ramadan, Salwa Zeidan
Libya: Ali al-Abani
Palestine: Hani Zurob
Qatar: Salam Al-Malek, Youseff Ahmed
Saudi Arabia: Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad, Fahd al-Hijilan, Faisal Samra
Syria: Buthayna Ali, Sabhan Adam
Turkey: Gulsun Karamustafa
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