The selected works will be displayed in the museum gallery

Louvre Abu Dhabi celebrates its fifth anniversary with “Art of the Day”

The purpose of the 2022 edition and the award it gives this year is to highlight the concepts of icon and iconography.

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Swiss watchmaking brand “Richard Mille” launched the second edition of the exhibition “The Art of Now” and the Richard Mille Art Prize, in celebration of the museum’s fifth anniversary. Through the award, artists working on various media will be invited to participate in telling a story The International Museum, by displaying their works, which will be displayed in the museum’s gallery, to serve as a platform for interaction between artists and specialists in contemporary art.

“The Art of Time”, which is supervised by the Director of the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi, Reem Fadda, called on artists to present new or other works they have worked on before, that employ the concepts of “icon” and “icon”, to express the reflections of the concept of the icon on art practices. contemporary.

The selected artists will display their works in “The Art of Now”, which will be held from November to February in the museum gallery, as the jury will select the winner of the Richard Mille Art Prize for 2022 from among these artists, and presentations can be submitted until July 31, via the Mathaf website. Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The jury includes Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Unlimited AAM platform, a major collector of art and patrons of the Pompidou Center, the British Museum and Sharjah Art Foundation, in addition to the art critic and chief curator of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Center. Christine Masel, founder of HW Architects and partner of Jean Nouvel, who led the Louvre Abu Dhabi project, architect Hala Warda, and director of the Department of Art Collections, Curators and Scientific Research at Louvre Abu Dhabi, Dr. Soraya Njeim, and Reem Fadda.

For his part, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, Manuel Rabaté, said: “The purpose of this year’s edition of the exhibition and the award is to highlight the concepts of icon and iconography, as a continuation of the museum’s development and success over the past five years,” noting that the museum continues its mission of In supporting contemporary artistic talent within the Emirates and in the entire region, and weaving the bonds between the museum and society.

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Dr. Soraya Njeim, Director of the Department of Artistic Collections, Curators and Scientific Research at Louvre Abu Dhabi, said: “To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the museum’s opening, Art Now will invite artists (both citizens and residents of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries) to highlight the concepts of icon and iconography, not from By celebrating not only the past, but also by rooting contemporary art and placing it in its current context.”

“While contemporary art is often said to be a challenge in terms of art’s symbolic lofty status, at Louvre Abu Dhabi – a human story told that reflects our mutual experiences of works, images and symbols in all their richness and depth – this relationship has been redefined.

What is assigned to any contemporary artist under the dome of the museum is not merely to reinterpret the icon or to repeat it, but we encourage them to re-interact with the concept of the icon to revive its symbolic effect.”

Manuel Rabaté:

"The Museum continues its mission to support contemporary artistic talent within the UAE and in the region as a whole."

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Next July is the last date for receiving entries in the exhibition.

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