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Art Dubai Modern
Booth M6
21-24.03.2018
For its sixth consecutive year of participation in Art Dubai Modern, Elmarsa is proud to present the work of Algerian artist Mahjoub Ben Bella (b. 1946) one of the most prominent artists from North Africa. The exhibition brings together a selection of his earlier works on paper and on canvas from the 70s and 80s. While he developed his own approach, based primarily on the use of Arabic calligraphy, his impressive, sometimes monumental works, which include frescoes and ceramic murals, combine influences from Western abstract painting with allusions to such Old Masters as the great Romantic colorist Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). His work has gradually shifted to the abundant expression of the forms, shapes and colors, thus giving to see a dense body of work which fits in a double heritage: Arab calligraphy and European painting.
Art Dubai Contemporary
Booth A14
21-24.03.2018
For its twelfth consecutive year of participation in Art Dubai, Elmarsa is pleased to present a selection of five artists who come together in a group exhibition at our booth A14 that highlights Tunisia’s contemporary art scene. While working in their respective visual languages and unique mixed media practices, as well as belonging to distinct generations, Omar Bey, Thameur Mejri, Nabil Saouabi, Khaled Ben Slimane and Nja Mahdaoui share a passionate and intellectual engagement with social, cultural and political transformations of this North African nation. The exhibition offers insight into the complex dynamics of the contemporary condition and context in a region of the world where the boundaries between the local and the global as well as the personal and the political are increasingly eroding as a result of the ubiquity of mass media.