One of the only Turner masterpieces left in private hands is brought to glorious life with CGI technology
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Tucked away in the mountain valleys near a village called Madha on the Omani border with the UAE, Abdullah Al Saadi’s studio is a veritable treasure trove of discovery for the art enthusiast. Al Saadi, born 1967, is one of the most prolific Emirati artists and his studio, which he built himself next to his family home, houses the results of his life-long dedication to his art.
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The curator for next year’s edition of the Abraaj Group Art Prize is Myriam Ben Salah. Born in Tunisia and based in Paris, Ben Salah has been coordinating special projects and public programs at Palais de Tokyo since 2009 with a special focus on performance art, video and publishing initiatives. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the international edition of Kaleidoscope Magazine.
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Art Basel is one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the world. More than 280 of the world’s leading galleries exhibit the works of over 4,000 artists during its four-day run in the Swiss city.
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Listening to a description of the materials that feature in Lisa Ross’s photographic series Living Shrines, raises doubts as to where, exactly, the living element comes in.
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In Between the Lines, an installation by Issay Rodriguez and Katherine Nuñez from Manila was composed of books made from fabric and sheafs of papers carefully crocheted alongside study desk paraphernalia such as paper clips that had also been labouriously stitched.
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Geddes does not consider her overwhelmingly cute subjects to be props for elaborate costumes. She is an artist and the babies in her photographs are part of a narrative. "The babies are not dressed up like insects or animals, they are playing roles as those characters," she says. "For me, my work is all about storytelling and I am giving them a voice."
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Terry Smith, an art critic, outlined this definition by saying that although artists in the 1970s and 1980s did not want to define their work, it would eventually be labelled as conceptual – the goal was to keep the audience guessing, not offer answers to themselves or their viewers – and to keep themselves at a critical distance from the very institutions they were railing against.
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This exhibition is also is the first time these two artists have been compared in a scholarly fashion, which is important, not least because Picasso was a notoriously difficult character. His friendship with Giacometti seems to reveal a lot of respect for the younger’s talents.
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Clearly trying to cause public debate, Omari will no doubt be successful in that, because this is not the kind of show that a viewer can pass over without comment but unfortunately, the artwork does not shed light on what it is like for these people, forced to leave their homeland with whatever they can carry and fall victim to traffickers, crooks and a whole corrupt system.
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It is testament to the Lebanese artist’s mastery of the medium that, as his viewers take in each work as a whole, its stories reveal themselves easily. In his latest show, the tales are heartbreaking realities of our time.
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Vikram Divecha is one of five artists who will represent the UAE at the Venice Biennale next month in Italy. He is also one of three UAE-based artists exhibiting artworks at the ongoing Sharjah Biennial. Yet his work is rarely found in a gallery.
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"My interest is not what things look like, but why they look like that," he says. "I don’t want to represent something or reproduce something we are already familiar with. I want to be involved with the internal structure of the material."
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