3D art in the outdoor garden of the Dubai Financial Center
8 sculptures recounting different cultures and attracting visitors to "Art Dubai"
Works primarily based on iron and metals and offer attendees the opportunity to explore 3D art from multiple cultures.
Photography: Patrick Castillo
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A group of distinctive sculptures attracts visitors to the 14th edition of "Art Dubai" in the outdoor garden of the Dubai Financial Center, which separates the halls from each other, and varies in the materials used and the artistic vision that it carries.
Eight works that volunteer mostly solid materials, as they depend mainly on iron and metals, and provide the attendees with the opportunity to explore three-dimensional art from multiple cultures, as they oscillate between those that depend on ancient civilizations and Arab art, to reach abstract forms or even African, so the metal appears as if He is the true narrator of cultures.
Despite the variation in the artistic shapes and colors of the materials used, they are all fused with the external courtyard and harmonize with the place, and the nature and architecture it bears based on the towers.
Mountain rocks
The first work that surprises visitors just to leave the hall is the work of Emirati artist Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, which consists of mountain rocks wrapped with copper wire, and dates back to 2007. In this work Ibrahim embodies his relationship with rocks and mud and the nature of Khor Fakkan, his area that he is devoted to in his works, And he employed its nature in his visual vision.
With this work, we witness the story of art linked to the land, and how the artist works through three-dimensional installations to reformulate the vocabulary of the local environment and give it new dimensions, as if he arranges the vocabulary of nature in a way different from what the eye has learned, and invites the viewer to explore it anew.
"Les Brians"
In front of the rocks of Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, we witness an installation work by the Algerian artist Rachid Qureshi, titled: “Les Brians”, dating back to 2015, and it consists of 21 sculptural pieces of corten iron.
The Algerian artist's sculpture bears his own imprint in the work based on Islamic history in writings, as he shows his love for lines, writings and symbols that merge with each other, to give the solid metal vitality and softness reflected in the curves and sharp geometric angles.
The work consists of 21 sculptural pieces that give the viewer the opportunity to explore the various possibilities that can be made by drawing inspiration from lines, shapes and symbols drawn from the mystical culture.
Architecture and towers
As for the artist Costas Varotsos, he worked on mixing iron and glass, to present a work entitled "Horizon".
The work presented by Giorgio Persano's gallery is blatantly mixed with the place and the surrounding nature, as it is circular and divided into two parts in which the glass occupies the lower section while the upper half of the circle is left empty, in order to blend with the scenery of the architecture and the surrounding glass towers, as well as the reflection of water on his glass, to form An extension of the color and shape of the glass.
This work highlights the homogeneity of solid and formable materials, taking new dimensions and shapes every time, and we witness the shapes of materials that can be malleable and formed, even though they are ready to be melted by fire and melted completely.
Iron cans
Artist Hussein Sharif, whose works are presented for the first time in a major art exhibition in the UAE, through Salwa Zeidan Gallery, in the outdoor garden, a work entitled "Faces", consisting of iron cans, is displayed.
Hussein Sharif works on the formulation of the work, based on the concept of consumption, repetition, and reformulation of the shapes of the materials surrounding us, which are related to our daily life.
Hussein Sharif's style does not differ from that of his late brother Hassan Sharif, the artist of discarded materials and small things, as we see in this work the same synthetic expressive style, as Hussein works to reshape the iron cans that we encounter in our daily life, through our use of food cans, and then give These cans that have been eroded by rust, a new dimension, and he pierces them to appear human faces with eyes and mouths, and spontaneously scatters them on the ground, subject to infinite possibilities.
Sharp corners
And judging from the metal, too, we see in the outdoor garden metal sculptures bearing multiple shapes and turns, including the sculpture of Bernard Vignier, the sculpture of Goncalo Mabunda, and a friend and a friend.
Vinier's work is distinguished by its being based on geometric shapes and sharp angles that can be left by the intersections of iron columns, while on the other hand we see how both Mabunda and continued in the form of voluntariness in the artwork, we find the works carry a lot of twisting, and the circular shapes that dazzle the viewer voluntarily Work, as if made of a substance far from iron.
In conclusion, let us arrive at works inspired by African culture, which bear the features of power through their use of bullets, war equipment and iron, to form chairs that appear to be chairs of thrones.
White monument
“The White Monument,” by Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi, is the only work that does not contain metal in its composition. It is made of polyester resins.
The Iraqi artist tends, through this work, to the abstract form in sculpture, so we find the monument, whose height is 186 cm, and formed in the form of his color works in which geometric shapes and formations intersect, in a way that constitutes a true and faithful extension of his color works.
Despite the artist's use of pure white in this work, the compositions are prominent due to the recesses and geometric shapes that the artist creates in the work, to give him a three-dimensional aesthetic dimension, which is sometimes difficult to explore from this perspective in two-dimensional paintings.
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