Art Exhibition in DIFC Trip-17th March 2011

On 17th of March 2011, at 10 am, we as Corporate Communication students and the Applied Media students went to visit one of the most interesting places I have ever been to. It was the Dubai International Financial Centre in Dubai for the purpose of visiting the hosted Art exhibition that took place there from the opening on 15th Mar to 29th Mar 2011.Various innovative and well-known contemporary and old classical European artists participated at this year exhibition by their fascinating master pieces like sculptures, paintings and statues. In fact, the art exhibition was very large so that each company like Art Dubai, Art Sawa and Christie’s jewelries gallery could have the chance of having their separate gallery to exhibit their antiquarian pieces in the way they want to.

One of the memorable art galleries we visited was the Opera Gallery that takes place every year in many areas around the world naming Paris, London, Geneva and Hong Kong. Opera’s Gallery was titled its gallery under the name of “ the living Masters” as this is their first time to expose such European masterpieces in the Middle East area. Worldwide different artists from Argentina, China, Tunisia and Iran presented their distinguished pieces at the gallery. Every piece had its inspired interesting story behind, and every piece has its distinctive theme, colors, style and technique from portrays, abstracts, comics to photography. 

Many pieces caught my attention, either for their creative technique or their mysterious story,but the main ones were:

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Damien Hirst (1965), Carvacrol –created by silkscreen print with bronze glitter

Julian Opie (1958), Fabric-vinyl on painted steel

 Chemise (1971)

We also had the chance to explore the Lebanese culture when we saw an exhibited old classic car carried on top of it all the needed equipments for travelling or moving on to live in a new place. It just showed us the difficulties of travelling and moving on to a new place was back then in 1900s.

Not to forget the feminine built body by puzzles pieces in a very creative and delicate way. It was also one of the most interesting contemporary pieces to observe.

Overall, I can definitely say that this whole trip with my classmates was one of the remarkable experiences I had gone through. I discovered such impressive places life DIFC, which I never had been to before, and I learned many valuable lessons such as respecting the art and the culture of countries. Moreover I had a great chance to explore some of the pioneers of artists and their paintings, and observe how they can creatively combine their cultures, believes, visions and thoughts in a wooden frame. Such precious works and arts should be always presented to the public for how they can impressively remark and imprint people’s minds.