UPCOMING FAIR

Art Dubai

17.–20.03.2010

For the presentation in Dubai are mainly selected artists that have been already presented in the UAE before, at the exhibition titled Water – Sand – Space, that Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen curated in 35 rooms of the Sharjah Art Museum in 2002.

There are at first the international masters of minimal and conceptual art like:

• Daniel Buren (*1938 French)
  with a pink glass-work of his minimalist stripe principal. There are always 8,7 cm large white stripes, which are vertical.
• Joseph Kosuth (* 1945 American)
  with the blue neon-work Colours of Places, he takes direct relation to the place, the water of the Gulf for example. As a pioneer of conceptual art his works are always dealing with ›Language‹ and with meaning.
• Lore Bert (* 1936 German)
  the famous paper artist, who already had several shows in the UAE, beginning with the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi in 1998, Honoured artist at the Sharjah Biennale in 1999, Water – Sand – Space in 2002 and a huge one man show in the Sharjah Art Museum in 2007 to name just some of them. The artist will be present in Dubai during the fair.
• Günther Uecker (*1930 German)
  is one of our best known artists with several works in public and private collections. His works with nails and structures on paper or canvas are very often related to unreadable ›Writings‹.
• François Morellet (* 1926 French)
  master of concrete art presents a construction in stainless steel, based on the mathematical number pi, which has often a humorous aspect too.
• Heinz Gappmayr (*1925 Austrian)
  master of the concrete poetry, who uses words and letters and numbers to describe well known, however invisible things like ›time‹ and ›space‹. He presents the triptych work Arabian Desert, with a photograph made in the UAE.
• Fabrizio Plessi (* 1940 Italian)
  in Venice living the artist is world wide known with his video sculptures, steel construction with monitors showing moving water or burning fire, the old principle of the Greek philosopher Heraklit about the movement in the life, presented in a very poetic way. Construction-drawings will be presented.
• Raimund Girke (1930-2002 German)
  the abstract painter, who concentrates on white-blue paintings on canvas which gives a feeling of width, freedom and beauty.
• Mario Reis (* 1957 German)
  the authentically Natural Water Colours, which are canvases, that he puts in rivers and waters around the world and fix, what has been left by the waters.
• Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002 Spain)
  etchings from the famous artist, which is mainly known as an abstract sculptor who works mainly with steel and clay, but has also a huge work of collages with handmade paper and felt.

New presented and for the first time in the UAE are the two German sculptors:

• Martin Willing (*1959 German)
  his geometric metal sculptures change the principle of gravitation and start to move by the circulation of air; they seem to get human qualities.
• Vera Röhm (*1943 German)
  her constructive sculptures connect natural (wood) with artistic material (plexiglas) to a perfect symbiosis and a beautiful appearance.