Living in Dubai, many of the local art community may know Janet Bellotto as a professor at Zayed University, who often writes and contributes to forums on art. What one may not be as aware of is Bellotto’s background as a curator in Toronto and an internationally exhibited artist in ...
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By Janet Bellotto
Subodh Kerkar has been connected to water all his life. From an early age he looked out to the sea and formed a relationship that can be traced throughout his journey from medical doctor to artist.
For almost 20 years, this sea-artist has been collaborating with water from painting ...
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In his latest solo show in Dubai, Youssef Nabil deals with the idea of transience and impermanence through a series of self-portraits. Whereas the celebrity portraits that shot him to fame five years ago had a characteristic funereal quality to them, these new works are more interested in questions of ...
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By Talal Moualla- Artist and researcher in Arab Aesthetics
"Whatever the historical pasts of peoples, and regardless of their respective spiritual, moral, physical and cultural unities, the element that represents the true evolution of spirit is nothing but the decisive movement of a true artist. It is the keeper of the ...
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The embodiment of the archetypal artist, Hassan Sharif is someone who struggled, inspired and ultimately dedicated his life to art. Hassan states this was not due to some inexplicable mystical inspiration, but more a logical and conscious decision. He chose to put art before everything else in his life: health, ...
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