How art is influencing design in modern times
Although Dubai has become a major tourist destination, we do not think anyone has it in their head as a place to go to buy art in Dubai, or at least admire it. Abundant shopping centres, contemporary architecture, Guinness records … all this is part of the imaginary of the rich emirate that last year attracted about 12 million visitors, a figure not negligible if we think that the native inhabitants do not exceed 200,000. But, contemporary art in Dubai? You are right. In recent years, Dubai has become a flourishing centre of artistic market transactions both regionally and globally. This style aims to show the manifestation of the movement, the speed and the rhythmic repetition of the objects on the canvas.
All that painter, sculptor, multimedia artist or even graffiti artist (yes, graffiti is prohibited except in designated spaces) that boasts in this part of the world, wants to exhibit in the art in Dubai. The money that abounds in the city-state has also served to boost this market. It is said that contemporary art represents an artistic revolution, but it certainly expresses a historical moment of social and intellectual changes. At the end of the 19th century, Europe was traversed by a social, economic and political disorder that led to the First World War. There the first artistic avant-gardes emerged.
If contemporary art in Dubai has become something in its eight years of life, it is the greatest reference of contemporary art in the Middle East and Iran. In fact, the Arab Emirate is once again the sophisticated showcase where the works of the coveted Iranians, the freshly baked works of the Syrian artists in exile and the ever-thriving Lebanese are displayed. Contemporary art is considered to be the artistic and architectural expressions that took place during almost the entire 20th century. It is important to make a clarification because contemporary art or modern art does not refer to the art of the modern age since it comprises a historical period before the current (from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century). While contemporary art, as mentioned above, includes the period from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the second half of the twentieth century.
And in this continuous exchange of ideas and art these days on the walls of Art Dubai highlight the abstract acrylic works. But Art Dubai is not only the arena of established artists; it is also a platform for those who emerge in the hectic panorama of the Middle East. One of them, the Iraqi Athier Mousawi, captivates with an interpretation of the war in acrylic with a marked influence of ‘Guernica’ in its use of organic and non-organic elements in its composition. It is essential to mention that this artistic period had its beginnings during the 19th century with impressionism and post-impressionism. So the verdict is that the contemporary art in Dubai is bringing in the revolution.
