Works ranging from three-dimensional to conceptual installation
A distinguished Emirati presence in "Art Dubai" .. Art pioneers interviewing youth
A work by the late artist Hassan Sharif consisting of a set of towels that look like a pink waterfall.
Photography: Mustafa Qasimi
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The 14th edition of "Art Dubai" is witnessing a prominent presence of Emirati art, through remarkable posts of names that have their own distinct artistic imprint. Most of the Emirati works participating belong to conceptual and three-dimensional or two-dimensional works.
An overview of Emirati art and the diversity of its forms we are witnessing in the exhibition that ends tomorrow in the Dubai Financial Center through the works of the pioneers of Emirati art and the young generation, as we witness in the exhibition a dialogue between two generations of artists on the one hand, and a dialogue between different artistic forms, so that visitors to the exhibition get acquainted with the two artistic forms. Dimensions, as well as three-dimensional dimensions that sublimate metals and other materials that highlight the plurality and diversity of art forms.
Discarded materials
The exhibition presents work by the late artist Hassan Sharif, which consists of a group of towels that were tied in series and linearly, to appear as if they were a pink cascade and harmoniously.
This work embodies the late conceptual artist's thought, and his ability to transform discarded materials into works of art based on the principle of reformulating materials and creating new dimensions for them.
This work carries Sharif's experience with installations, and his vision to everything we consume in our daily life, and to the concept of small things that can simply be transformed and changed using them, as he remodels materials from a new perspective.
for the first time
From this work, we move to the works of his brother Hussein Sharif, whose works are presented for the first time in an international art exhibition, through Salwa Zeidan Gallery, which presents the Emirati artist with many of his installations, paintings and models.
The hall displays a group of compositional paintings based on the distribution of color in the artwork on a frequent and regular basis, while other paintings carry the form of black and white sketches, as well as collages in which color is used, paper clips and newspapers.
These two-dimensional works are juxtaposed with installations that stem from the same conceptual vision that Hassan Sharif embodied in his life, which is based on the reuse of discarded materials, as it is the art of reformulating shapes and giving them new dimensions.
In these works, Sharif uses cardboard and iron boxes, in addition to many of the materials that he introduces to the artwork and puts them in a sequential composition, so it looks as if it is a series of events that invites the recipient to explore them all by carefully examining all the details used in the composition of the work, starting from the boxes to the cardboard Wires and plastic bottle caps.
Music
Another experience with conceptual art is presented by the Emirati artist, Muhammad Kazem, through one of his recent works, in which the white color is used to invite the viewer to penetrate into it through scratches on the paper, as the painting looks like a joust that attracts the viewer's eye and hearing.
Through the scratches that Kathem creates on the white paper, the viewer senses the light, which we find infiltrating between the spaces, and this brings us back to the concept of composition in the artwork and art formulation with the least media and away from color. And he succeeds in overcoming the smooth and monochrome surface of paper by making it an abstract, highly detailed surface.
Anthropomorphic
As for the artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, the exhibition carries more than one of his work, starting with the two-dimensional painting in which Ibrahim paints the shapes associated with clay, which he has always worked on presenting in compositional models, to reach with him the installation work made of stones and wires.
Ibrahim's work is characterized by the transfer of his experience, which has long been linked to the nature of life he lives and the surrounding environment, as he worked on mud in the formation of models that embody the environment and its surroundings and reflect its colors, while we find in the painting tends to use strong colors, including red, to highlight the strength of the shapes he makes.
A feminine experience
The works of the artist, Sheikha Al Mazroua, represent the Emirati women's experience in the exhibition, as Lori Shabibi Gallery shows her a set of two-dimensional works that she creates from forged metal as if it were a very flexible and malleable material.
The farmer deals with metals as if they are two-dimensional panels drawn on the canvas, then bends the iron, and gives it swelling from the inside, so it looks closer to configurations made of soft materials, such as inflated airbags.
After working on adapting iron as an artistic medium and giving it multiple shapes, the farmer paints the work with colors that distribute it in the form of geometric formations that cut the work into parts, as it seeks to find combinations that resemble triangles or even squares that intersect in color with each other, then give the color a dry texture, The primary mediator is far from its true form.
Al-Mazroua creates a good space for color harmony in her works, as she carries many colors in each palette that gradient in a homogeneous and sometimes contradictory manner, taking care to make them calm, so her works represent an invitation to explore the aesthetics of shape and color when they intersect.
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Hussein Sharif offered his first time in a
global art exhibition.
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is distinguished for conveying his experience that is related to nature and the environment.
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