ABU DHABI ART HUB

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