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Art Dubai Edition 16 MARCH 2010 I ISSUE 1 I ART DUBAI EDITION 04 MEET THE ARTISTS 06 SPOTLIGHT: MIDDLE EASTERN ART 08 SPOTLIGHT: international ART 10 SPOTLIGHT: ASIAN ART 14 NEW GALLERIES AT ART DUBAI 16 ALL ABOUT BIDOUN PROJECTS 20 OPINION: JACK PERSEKIAN and Media Free Zone Authority. ubai Technology 21 5 MINUTES WITH JOHN MARTIN AND D SHEIKH SULTAN SOOUD AL-QASSEMI Published out of the TODAY ART DUBAI 2010 / CANVAS DAILY 1 19:00–21:30 Alex De Fluvià Under Construction exhibition opening at Cuadro Fine Art Gallery 19:00–20:30 START: AerosolArabic & START public performances Madinat Beach TOMORROW 12:30–13:30 Global Art Forum: Artists and Mapping Historiographies 13:30–13:45 Global Art Forum: Mapping Presentation, 5000 Friends after the Rolodex 13:45–14:00 Global Art Forum: Arts Writing Keynote with Douglas McLennan 14:00–15:00 Global Art Forum: Is There a Crisis in Arts Writing? 15:00–16:00 Global Art Forum: Building the Tehran Contemporary Art Museum, Depicting Rostam and Piles of Gold Bricks: Tehran in the 1970s ALL GLOBAL ART FORUM DISCUSSIONS ARE HAPPENING AT THE MADINAT BEACH 17:00–18:30 Art Park Talk: Conversation with 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize Recipients Bidoun Lounge 17:30–18:15 Artist-led Tour: Khalil Rabah, Fair View (Register and convene at the Arts Projects desk) Madinat Beach 17:30–19:00 START: Graffiti wall demonstration with AerosalArabic, START stand Madinat Beach 18:00–19:00 Art Park: Video Programme, Strike a Pose, followed by a Q&A with curators Özge Ersoy and Sohrab Mohebbi Bidoun Lounge elcome to the fourth edition of Art cultural highlights taking place in parallel to Art Dubai. 19:00–19:45 Art Park Talk: Archives and the Internet Dubai and the second incarnation Art lovers can also pick up one of Canvas Bidoun Lounge of Canvas Daily (which debuted magazine’s signature tops for both men and at Abu Dhabi Art 2009), the fair’s women. If you’ve ever thought something was 19:00–21:30 Maslen and Mehra Mirrored exhibition Wexclusive supplement providing daily coverage ‘artrageous’ or if the art world has confused you to opening at Cuadro Fine Art Gallery of what’s on, reviews, interviews and a host of the point where you ask yourself ‘what the kunst?’ 20:00–21:15 The Big Idea exciting features. Readers can find Canvas Daily or if you, like us, believe that ‘art > recession’ Bidoun Lounge around the fair, at five-star hotels throughout then Booth D39 is where you’ve got to head. We’re the city, at Dubai galleries, on the Artbus and also selling a Collector's Voodoo Doll, especially at airline lounges in Dubai International Airport. made for a collector’s secret evil wishes. And ALSO SHOWING A PDF of Canvas Daily is also available each we sell funky notebooks too. For now, enjoy the morning for download at www.canvasonline.com fair and remember, all for art and art for all. 1x1 Art Gallery: A Collection of Works. In the weeks leading up to the fourth Art Dubai, Call +971 43483873 or visit www.1x1artgallery.com Canvas Daily staff are happy to report a very clear mood of optimism among the fair’s 70 participating Art Couture: Exhibition by Three 21st Century Artists. galleries, the Art Dubai team, collectors and patrons. Call +971 43994331 or visit www.artcoutureuae.com Kicking off Art Dubai week was the annual invitation- “I have never been more Artspace: Laws of Direction by Zakaria Ramhani. only Canvas Collectors Dinner, which took place at Call +971 43230820 or visit www.artspace-dubai.com Madinat Jumeirah’s Pier Chic. Society images can be excited about Art Dubai. seen on page 13. Iran Inside Out opened yesterday Art Sawa: My Home Land and Creative Palestinian Art. This year, the roster of at DIFC’s The Farjam Collection and showcases works Call +971 43408660 or visit www.artsawa.com by 56 Contemporary Iranian artists. Dubai is the galleries is inspiring and 11 APRIL - 12 JUNE 2010 Ayyam Gallery: Moustafa Fathi. exhibition’s second stop after it debuted at New York’s eclectic.” Call +971 43236242 or visit www.ayyamgallery.com Chelsea Art Museum last year. Cuadro Fine Art Gallery BAHRAIN NATIONAL MUSEUM at DIFC also opened UAE Art Books, a double bonanza MANAMA, KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN For a FULL schedule of events and further details please pick up your featuring works by four Contemporary Emirati artists, Kashya Hildebrand, founder of copy of the fair guide at the Art Dubai information desk or log on to as well as a bilingual tome on them and their work. www.artdubai.ae For a complete listing of shows in Dubai, visit the Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Canvas Booth (D39) to pick up a copy of Canvas Guide or visit www. In fact, Cuadro is going all out during Art Dubai week canvasonline.com/images/pdf/atc.pdf with four shows opening on consecutive nights. Last Booth B21. RashidAlKhalifa.com Art Dubai will be open to the public from 18-20 March. Tickets can night also saw the opening of Art Dubai’s fringe fair, To read a full profile of the gallery, pick up the latest be purchased for AED 50 through TimeOutTickets or at the door. For Bastakiya Art Fair, which also celebrates its fourth issue of Canvas from Booth D39. more information call +971 4323 3434 or email [email protected] edition. These and more are just a sample of the 02 16 MARCH 2010 I canvas DAILY I ISSUE 1 I art DUBAI EDITION MEET THE ARTISTS As Art Dubai welcomes artists, collectors, curators and art lovers from all over the world, Canvas Daily asks leading HG HK NT KH artists from the Middle East for their thoughts on Dubai, its Contemporary art scene and what’s next for it as a centre LE MF FA of the region’s cultural renaissance. We interviewed Farhad Ahrarnia (FA), Halim Al-Karim (HK), Lalla Essaydi (LE), Monir Farmanfarmaian (MF), Hakim Ghazali (HG), Khaled Hafez Back, left to right: Hakim Ghazali, Halim Al-Karim, Nazif Topçuoglu, Khaled Hafez (KH) and Nazif Topçuoglu (NT). Front, left to right: Lalla Essaydi, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Farhad Ahrarnia Q: What is your opinion of Dubai as to art practices. Each gallery brings to the table its Q: And following on from that, what do you an artistic and cultural venue? own research and propositions, and this is leading feel about the label ‘Middle Eastern artist’ HG: What Dubai has achieved so far is incredible. It’s to the writing of a proper art history of the region, - is it valid or more of a distraction? the only Middle Eastern city that has really been able something our part of the world has been deprived of. MF: It’s as valid as any other label I guess, but to put the region’s art scene onto the global stage. LE: Although the rationale of fairs is solely as artists of real quality soon leave their labels HK: Dubai is like a laboratory, filled with economic venues – unlike museums and biennials, behind. They become truly international, so artistic experimentation. It’s a real focal point, where art is put into a much richer and deeper it doesn’t matter where they’re from. with many people looking at it to see what’s context – they do give both artists and audiences HG: Such labels are definitely a distraction. I happening art-wise in the Middle East. the chance to encounter a greater variety of don’t think of myself or my work as ‘Moroccan’ or MF: The Dubai art scene is constantly improving and contemporary work than they may otherwise see. even ‘Middle Eastern'. I find it quite a degrading I find everything very intelligently done here. Why term actually, as if we’re not considered good haven’t other Middle Eastern countries done the same? Q: Has the economic downturn affected you enough yet to be ‘international’ artists. NT: I’ve only been here once before and it was and the way you approach your work? FA: Labels always come with expectations, pouring with rain! I was also rather wary of HK: Yes, but only in a positive way. Dubai may have and I like to play with expectations. how my work would be received, but I found seen the disappearance of a lot of its commercial HK: I don’t believe in classifying artists by their the audience very open-minded. They know art, but the serious collectors and art-lovers have nationality or choice of place in which to live their stuff, and take their art very seriously. remained, which has helped refine the scene here. and work. I feel like an international citizen. HG: Actually, it’s been very positive for my However, the term ‘Middle Eastern artist’ has Q: What do you think Dubai has to work in the sense that it’s enabled me to push been an effective tool in marketing the great offer artists in particular? my limits further in terms of what I do. I think creativity taking place in the region right now. LE: Dubai’s inspiring and encouraging response to art downturns are times when artists are able to LE: Labels make me feel very uncomfortable. I feel gives artists the all-important knowledge that they focus more closely on their artistic practices. caged in just thinking of them. Art has no boundaries, are supported by a wider community. And from my NT: Overall I think it’s been good for art.
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