MADRID (EFE) .- The exhibition “Looking at the World Around You. Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums “chronicles the transformation of the Arab world with 160 works by 34 artists who are part of the collection of Qatar Museums, for the first time out of the country.
Organized by the Banco Santander Foundation and Qatar Museums Authority, the exhibition is on display at the Art Gallery Santander and arises from a project initiated two years ago to provide a portrait of the Arab world from the artistic perspective.
Along with works by artists from Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Iraq and Kuwait works by artists associated with the Arab world, as the Chinese Yan Pei-Ming and Cai Guo-Qiang, in addition to the Belgian René Magritte are exhibited.
These works come mostly from the collection of the Arab Museum of Modern art (Mathaf) which, located in Doha, is solely dedicated to contemporary art in an Arab nation, as well as a selection of pieces Museums and Qatar Orientalist Museum.
for the president of the Foundation Banco Santander, Borja Baselga, is an exceptional event, since Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani were “granted the privilege choosing this room to present first collection out of Qatar “.
the selection of works by the curator Abdellah Karroum, director of Mathaf, does not revolve around a theme,” but to show the participation of artists in society and reflect the challenges facing the Arab art. It is a historical view through artists with different languages ”
The collection of Mathaf” analyzes the political and social history through art.; his works can be identified surreal elements and conceptual art, which shows that Arab artists interested in the same things that Western artists of his time. “
In this relationship between art and history listed from the perspective of René Magritte about East through the play “Scheherazade” to the Arab creators most currently committed, as Mona Hatoum, and Amal Manal Kenewy AlDowayan.
Indeed, the installation “Suspended together “of Manal AlDowayan the tour starts. Dozens of doves fiberglass wings show the viewer where permits tutors must have Saudi women appear to leave the country.
As one of the most important works from the collection of Mathaf called Abdellah Karroum of Cai Guo-Qiang titled “Ninety-nine horses”, exhibited for the first time since its inception in the museum itself.
the piece 18 meters long and four meters wide is made with explosions of gunpowder on paper. Hanging from the ceiling you can see 99 sculptures of horses on resin covered with gold leaf, whose shadows also take center stage in the role.
have special importance in the path the great pioneering contemporary artists in their countries.
Along with the Lebanese Etel Adnan, the first to introduce writing in their works include Algerian Baya Mahieddine chosen by André Breton surrealism as a painter and rural landscapes of the Egyptian inji Efflatount who in the fifties he lived in a palace with his father and was jailed four years for his relationship with political activists
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