Abu Dhabi Art has announced the participation of Emerging Artists Horizons 2023 and Gate: Maqam at Kochi, India, at Durbar Hall Art Gallery from 26 July to 18 August 2024, at the invitation of the Rizk Art Initiative.
Every year, Bawaba invites a guest to be the curator, with Dr. Venetia Porter being the curator of Bawaba at Abu Dhabi Art 2023, showcasing the work of leading Emirati artist Hashel Al Lamki. This is the first international participation of the exhibition.
أعلن فن أبوظبي عن مشاركة معرض آفاق الفنانين الناشئين 2023 ومعرض “بوابة: مقام” في معرض كوتشي في الهند المُقام في صالة دوربار في الفترة من 26 يوليو إلى 18 أغسطس 2024، بدعوة من مبادرة رزق للفن.
ويدعو معرض “بوابة” كل عام ضيفًا ليكون قيّم المعرض، حيث كانت الدكتورة فينيشا بورتر هي قيمة معرض بوابة في فن أبوظبي 2023، وقدمت خلاله عرضًا لأعمال الفنان الإماراتي الرائد هاشل اللمكي. وتعد هذه المشاركة الدولية الأولى للمعرض.
I published the following contribution in the catalogue of the Emirati artist Hashel Al Lamki’s “Maqam” exhibition at this year’s Abu Dhabi Art, held at Manarat Al Saadiyat between 22-26 November 2023. This exhibition will now feature in the Durbar Hall Art Gallery at Kochi, India, from the 26th July to the 18th August 2024.
Beech, M.J. 2023. The Geology of Abu Dhabi Emirate: In every layer, a history untold. Pages 11-18, in: Venetia Porter and Laura Cherrie Beaney (eds.), Maqam – Hashel Al Lamki. Abu Dhabi Art – Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi.
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Abu Dhabi Art presented the Gateway Exhibition: Maqam, curated by the curator Venetia Porter, in collaboration with the artist Hashel Al Lamki. Hashel Al Lamki is one of the leading lights of the UAE. Early to grasp the importance of climate action and environmental consciousness, he was also among the first of his generation to realise the need for artists to work together, to offer peer to peer critique and to create collaborative artist-run spaces.
Growing up in the Al Maqam district of Al Ain, Hashel was influenced by the beauty of its landscape and in particular by the dramatic nearby mountain range of Jebel Hafit. It was here that he first became aware of its ancient geology and the colour of its rocks. In the essay I contributed to the catalogue for this exhibition I give a snapshot of the history of this landscape. starting with the Mesozoic era, 252 to 66 million years ago when Abu Dhabi was submerged beneath the Tethys Sea and when significantly the rocks that now provide the region with its precious resources of oil and gas began to be formed.
