Art Paris Abu Dhabi 08 ~ Modern & Contemporary Art Fair |
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| Wednesday, 19 November 2008 02:20 |
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On the grounds of the Emirates Palace, 57 galleries will exhibit several hundreds of artists, including Kader Attia, Paul Cézanne, Shilpa Chavan, Jim Dine, Bernard Frize, Alberto Giacometti, Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Shirin Neshat, Julian Opie, Yazid Oulab, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Ruff, Faisal Samra, Niki de Saint Phalle, Massimo Vitali and Andy Warhol, among others. New in 2008 : 8 young galleries emerging on the international contemporary art market are united under the banner of “Artparis-AbuDhabi Young Talent”. Each of them will be representing the works of a young artist yet to be discovered. For the second edition of artparis-AbuDhabi, 57 galleries will exhibit at the Emirates Palace, representing the artistic creation of 22 countries and promising a multi-cultural voyage with art as the guiding principle.  To begin with, artists from the Arab world will take a place of honor not only at the galleries from the Middle East and North Africa but also at occidental galleries. The focus will be on Arab creation that leans on traditional elements even at this contemporary moment, sometimes with humour, but always with pertinence. Employing a thematic selection for its stand, the Lebanese gallery Tanit takes the theme of “The space of artworks” to interrogate the view we take of artworks within their context, as in with the trompe-l’oeil paintings of Nabir Nahas. It is the political space occupied within Islamic societies that the Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi examines, not without humor, for the New York gallery LTMH. Another Iranian artist, Monir Farmanfarmaian, plays with the geometric principles of Islamic art at the Third Line gallery of the United Arab Emirates. The Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi is one of the notable figures at artparis-AbuDhabi: her work will be presented by the Swiss gallery Kashya Hildebrand, among the gallery’s selection of artists including Andréi Moldokin and Jeffrey Aaronson, as well as being presented by the London gallery Waterhouse & Dodd along with other artists from the Near Orient such as Nja Mahdaoui. The Asian platform at the fair does not stop there however. Further, gallery 1 X 1 of Dubai is specializing in Indian artists such as Chittrovanu Mazumdar and his installations that merge various supports, from paper to numeric processes. India, and especially Indians themselves, are put under the lens by the artist Sunil Gupta; his photographs will be shown by the Berlin gallery Caprice Horn. The Indian gallery Matthieu Foss has selected a certain number of Indian artists to represent his programming, as in the images of Baba Anand and his clichés of Bollywood airs. The Indian gallery Pundole presents a group of artists from the sub-continent, among them Maqbool Fida Husain who, starting in 1947, was one of the members of the Progressive Artists group in India.  This edition of the fair further includes some of the great names of the international art scene. For example, several works by Andy Warhol will be on display, among them Anniversary Donald Duck at the stand of the Austrian gallery Ernst Hilger and the Four Dollar Sign at the stand of German gallery Hafenrichter & Flugel. The London gallery Ben Brown shows Avanti Cars and Hammer and Sickle 76, while the French gallery Laurent Strouk proposes Pink Hearts by Warhol alongside works by Tom Wesselman and Keith Haring. Continuing in the vein of Pop art, the French gallery Templon offers us Jim Dine with his series dedicated to Pinocchio. Some galleries opt for a monographic approach. The Finnish gallery Forsblom, for example, concentrates on the work of Finnish artist Hans-Christian Berg whose installations beckon the view and the participation of the spectators. The German gallery Jablonka puts an emphasis on the work of American artist Philip Taffe whose work is inspired by the Near Orient and by Arab culture. Two one-man shows co-exist at the stand of Galerie Maeght who display works by Marco del Re and by Miro. Still other galleries play with the theme of abstraction. This is the case for the French gallery Protée who puts a spotlight on the lyrical abstraction of the second half of the twentieth century, showing artists such as Claudie Laks, Abdallah Benanteur and Georges Mathieu. Another gallery promoting abstract art, Nächst St. Stephan of Austria dedicates a large part of its space to the work on color of German artist Katherina Grosse. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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