Hope, communion and the future - An interview with Lara Baladi - June 2010



Image: Lara Baladi, 'Chronologie', Diary of the Future, 2010. ChinarTree: Many of us in Dubai were first exposed to your work at Art Dubai 2007 (formerly known as The Gulf Art Fair) where you showed a kaleidoscope-installation entitled ‘Roba Vecchia.’ Your most recent photography exhibited in ‘Diary of the Future’ seems a ...

Rokni Haerizadeh - Sardonic Verses - January 2010



If, as Fernand Leger stated in 1936, “each era of art has its own realism,” then one must ask whether Rokni Haerizadeh’s work is a reaction to, or a continuation of, preceding epochs. On visiting the Iranian art luminary’s new studio in Dubai, what becomes clear is that his work ...

Rana Begum - Back to Black - December 2009



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Huma Mulji at Elementa Gallery, Dubai - August 2009



In his paper, ‘Nature and Culture’ the Russian poet Alexander Blok spoke about the contradiction between ‘the age old world of the soil and the modern world of the city and technology.’  He described different types of individuals in society, one of which he called ‘elemental people,’ in that they ...

Janet Bellotto, Look and Sea – June 2009



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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