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Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Monday, 14 November 2016
Monday, 31 October 2016
RENA OZAKI
An International Artist, Japan
Artist's Statement:
There are many arches in UAE. You can see them in buildings design not only in the mosques. I thought that I wanted to take that into my works. As it happens, it was “arches” that I used to research at graduate school. I think that you feel the effects-properties of “extending,” “softness”, “coherent” and “inducement the line of sight”.
“Smell: the aroma of coffee”
Mixed media on Japanese papers ‘washi’ on canvas
Emirati people love cafe, and it’s not an exaggeration saying that they’ll answer cafe when it comes to talking about gathering with friends. Painting “Smell: the perfume” and “Smell: the aroma of coffee” are series, and the theme are smells as you see in the titles. In this painting, the aroma of coffee is hanging in the air.
I visualized the ‘cultures’ that I felt familiar to me in the Abu Dhabi life.
I want to say big thanks to the man wearing kandoora for accepting my request.
※About painting materials
I used real coffee to express the aroma of coffee. You can smell it if you get close to this painting. In addition to the materials that I used in “Smell: the perfume”, I did acrylic, modeling paste, silver leaves, handmade eggshell powder (pigments) and so on.
“Camel II”
Silk painting: dye and gutta on silk
This is my second silk painting. Same like “Camel I”, this is a design filled with colorful patterns in a camel silhouette. The sun shines, floating white clouds, plants grow up after it rained. I thought the mis-match is interesting between the desert of UAE and things that will never happen.
※About painting materials:
Other than basic silk painting materials, I used salts for background. It is a technique using effect that salt “sucks” water out of nearby areas.
“Smell: the perfume”
Mixed media on Japanese papers ‘washi’ on canvas
I feel the perfumes are almost culture in UAE.
I painted a woman who was wearing ‘abaya’ which is a traditional clothing, and I visualized perfume hanging in the air.
I want to say big thanks to the woman for accepting my request.
※About painting materials
I pasted Japanese papers ‘washi’ on canvas. I expressed the perfume seeking silk colors (paints) into the papers.
I used outliners ‘gutta’ to draw tiny flowers and thin gold lines.
I painted abaya using Indian ink (black ink) and natural pigments that I made from beach sands etc. I used some handmade natural pigments from clean gravels and crystalline limestone (marble) etc. for her skins.
And also, I put some gold leaves on a part of the background.
“Camel I”
Silk painting: dye and gutta on silk
This is my first silk painting. Design filled colorful patterns in silhouette of camel.
I feel that lots of Emirati people like perfumes. Getting a hint from that, I supposed to be interesting if there is a camel wrapped in it. Seeking colors of background are the expression of them.
※About painting materials:
used only basic silk painting materials –silk colors (dye) and outliner called gutta.
Rena Ozaki Solo Exhibition
Abu Dhabi Art Hub
Abu Dhabi Art Hub / Art Hub Gallery Dubai
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016
ART WORKSHOP SERIES
27-28-29 October 2016
Art Hub Gallery Dubai
Join an Art Hub Gallery Artist-educator for a 3 days Art Workshop experience.
Sessions held Thursday, Friday, Saturday 3 times per day.
All materials provided.
Just bring your creativity!
Dubai Design District Building #2, Shop #2
Ras Al Khor Road
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Tuesday, 18 October 2016
THE FIRST VIP PREVIEW OF AN EXHIBITION
'TIMELY
MUSING'
IN ART HUB GALLERY
DUBAI
Press
Release
17.10.2016
On display from 17 October 2016
On Monday,
17 October, 2016 at 6 pm Art Hub
Gallery Dubai is holding the First VIP Preview of an Exhibition called “Timely Musing”
under the Patronage of H.E.Sheikha Wafa bint Hasher Al Maktoum.
Art Hub Gallery is a Dubai branch of Art Hub Group with the main
office in Abu Dhabi Art Hub. Guests of honor are welcome to join us at our new
location in Dubai Design District, Building 2, to preview the “Timely Musing”
exhibition that features artworks of International artists: Abdelfettah Hraoui,
Abbas Al Mosawi, Ajitvar Kumar Douglas, Alibay Bapanov, Andris Vitolinis,
Andriy Aksyutov, Ayumi Takahashi, Azza Al Qubaisi, Cecilia Noriega Orozco, Hady
Boraey, JC Jacinto, Ilona Visnyei, Kavinash Thomoo, Lamiaa Menhal, Mohammed
Zaidi, Moreen Austria, Nasser Palangi, Nevena Vuksanovic, Raivo Kolomees, Sannalina
Kuussari, Ulla Corin Lindroth, Yusuf Hussain, Zidrija Janusaite.
The First Exhibition “Timely Mussing” is
rich in the multiple styles, and assembles
works born out of individualistic cross-cultural negotiation and inquiry, and
attempts to construct a narrative that centralizes the role of the artist as
mediator. The selected artworks employ a visually pleasing, minimalistic
approach packed with semiotic openness.
Art Hub Gallery is excited to share
with the guests the new services such as Daily Workshops with Master Artist,
Free Art Advisory for home furnishing, Art Events and the Best Offers on Artworks.
Doors of Gallery are open to the public from Saturday through
Thursday from 9 am till 7 pm, in Dubai Design District Building 2, Shop 2, Ras
Al Khor Road.
For more information about Art Hub
Collection and services we invite our guests to visit Art Hub Gallery website
www.arthubdubai.com and contact us by phone: +971 55 8722385 or e-mail: arthubdubai@outlook.com
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Timely Musing
Under the maxim ‘Live Create Exhibit’, the Art Hub Gallery - a
Dubai branch of Art Hub Group with the main office in Abu Dhabi Art Hub, is
committed to provide a platform for creativity to emerging and established
artists at national and international levels. In this collection
entitled, ‘Timely Musing’, Art Hub Gallery Dubai exhibits the works of
international artists who created artworks while living in the residency
program. It regroups powerful international voices into what is expected to be a
narrative cohesion cemented under a common search for aesthetics as well as
cultural meaning-making.
The collection assembles works born out of individualistic
cross-cultural negotiation and inquiry, and attempts to construct a narrative
that centralizes the role of the artist as mediator. In foreign socio-cultural
contexts, the artist’s consciousness becomes impregnated with alertness to
difference, and by tension caused due to the need to drop automatisms and renew
knowledge of self and cultural expectations. As the artist negotiates and
realizes the constructed nature of the foreign cultural apparatus, his own
certainties about identity and behavior might become less self-evident.
Foreignness then pushes the latter into a creative spirit that seeks to make
sense of difference.
The artists’ works are recurrently products of subjective
interpretations of aspects of history, culture, and society. Oftentimes,
cultural convergence is signaled through artistic concepts that intertwine
facets of native and host
cultures. The plurality of the artists’ roles is reflected in the visual
story-telling strategies that explore various symbolic themes. The collection
presented here show concern with themes such as the bridging of tradition and
modernity, identity, space, and time.
The selected works immediately reveal to
have an important graphical-design influence. They employ a visually pleasing,
minimalistic approach packed with semiotic openness.
Kavinash THOMOO
CURATOR
Dubai Design District I Building 2, Shop 2
Ras Al Khor Road I Dubai I United Arab Emirates
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