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About Christie’s
Christie’s, the world's leading art business had global auction and private sales in 2010 that totaled £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion. Christie’s is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise, as well as international glamour. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's conducted the greatest auctions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and today remains a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie’s offers over 450 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewellery, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $100 million. Christie’s has 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 salerooms around the world including in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai and Hong Kong. More recently, Christie’s has led the market with expanded initiatives in emerging and new markets such as Russia, China, India and the United Arab Emirates, with successful sales and exhibitions in Beijing, Mumbai and Dubai.
About Edge of Arabia
Edge of Arabia is a non-profit organisation offering a unique platform for the showcasing of contemporary art from Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2008, it is playing a significant role in enhancing international cultural relationships as well as developing regional creative industries and art education. At the heart of the project is a touring exhibition and accompanying education programme that has shed new light on the largely unknown contemporary art culture of Saudi Arabia.
Christie’s, the world's leading art business had global auction and private sales in 2010 that totaled £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion. Christie’s is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise, as well as international glamour. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's conducted the greatest auctions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and today remains a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie’s offers over 450 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewellery, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $100 million. Christie’s has 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 salerooms around the world including in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai and Hong Kong. More recently, Christie’s has led the market with expanded initiatives in emerging and new markets such as Russia, China, India and the United Arab Emirates, with successful sales and exhibitions in Beijing, Mumbai and Dubai.
About Edge of Arabia
Edge of Arabia is a non-profit organisation offering a unique platform for the showcasing of contemporary art from Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2008, it is playing a significant role in enhancing international cultural relationships as well as developing regional creative industries and art education. At the heart of the project is a touring exhibition and accompanying education programme that has shed new light on the largely unknown contemporary art culture of Saudi Arabia.
Edge of Arabia Exhibition Highlights
to be Sold in April
Auction: Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art - 19 April, 2011
to be Sold in April
Auction: Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art - 19 April, 2011
SAUDI ARABIAN ARTISTS TO AUCTION WORKS AT CHRISTIE’S DUBAI TO FUND EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Dubai. Edge of Arabia, the internationally recognized, pioneering art project that has shed new light on the largely unknown contemporary art and culture of Saudi Arabia, will be selling by auction six works at Christie’s Dubai sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art on 19 April, 2011. The sale is a fundraiser to enable the expansion of Edge of Arabia’s education programme and art workshops in Saudi Arabian schools and universities, which will culminate in December 2011 with an international symposium in Jeddah to bring local and international Saudi contemporary art enthusiasts together for the first time. The group of works from selected artists is estimated to raise in the region of $150,000.
Isabelle de La Bruyère, Director, Christie’s Middle East, said: “Following on from their hugely successful exhibitions in London, Venice, Berlin and Istanbul and with a major show planned in Dubai this March and Jeddah later this year, the Edge of Arabia artists have joined with Christie’s to offer their most important works for sale so as to raise financing for an EOA education program. Having helped to establish Middle Eastern art as a collecting area among an international group of buyers, this sale re-enforces Christie’s commitment, as market leaders, to support the development of arts education in the region. We are proud to have been given this wonderful opportunity by Edge of Arabia and hope the money raised will inspire the next generation of contemporary artists in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.”
Stephen Stapleton, Edge of Arabia founder, commented: “The artists in this sale include the founding members of the Edge of Arabia stable and are considered the pioneers of Saudi contemporary art. In a humbling act of appreciation, six artists have generously donated iconic works, previously shown in major Edge of Arabia exhibitions in London, Venice, Berlin and Istanbul, in order to support the expansion of an education programme targeting local communities and especially young people.”
In April 2009, Christie’s Dubai held an auction which included a small but important group of works by Saudi Arabian artists - the first time such works had been offered at an international auction. The group of works was 100% sold.
Isabelle de La Bruyère, Director, Christie’s Middle East, said: “Following on from their hugely successful exhibitions in London, Venice, Berlin and Istanbul and with a major show planned in Dubai this March and Jeddah later this year, the Edge of Arabia artists have joined with Christie’s to offer their most important works for sale so as to raise financing for an EOA education program. Having helped to establish Middle Eastern art as a collecting area among an international group of buyers, this sale re-enforces Christie’s commitment, as market leaders, to support the development of arts education in the region. We are proud to have been given this wonderful opportunity by Edge of Arabia and hope the money raised will inspire the next generation of contemporary artists in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.”
Stephen Stapleton, Edge of Arabia founder, commented: “The artists in this sale include the founding members of the Edge of Arabia stable and are considered the pioneers of Saudi contemporary art. In a humbling act of appreciation, six artists have generously donated iconic works, previously shown in major Edge of Arabia exhibitions in London, Venice, Berlin and Istanbul, in order to support the expansion of an education programme targeting local communities and especially young people.”
In April 2009, Christie’s Dubai held an auction which included a small but important group of works by Saudi Arabian artists - the first time such works had been offered at an international auction. The group of works was 100% sold.
The highlight of the sale is a three metre wide wood and copper dome symbolising the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem by Abdulnasser Gharem, a leading contemporary Middle Eastern artist and co-founder of Edge of Arabia. Entitled Message/ Messenger and created in 2010, it hides beneath its vast diameter a small dove, the symbol of peace and is estimated at $70,000-100,000. This piece was one of the highlights of Edge of Arabia’s groundbreaking exhibition in Istanbul.
Born in 1973 in Khamis Mushait where he still lives and works, Gharem is both a practicing artist and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Saudi Arabian Army. He studied at the Al-Miftaha Arts Village in Abha along with his friend Ahmed Mater and is now recognized and a pioneer of conceptual art in Saudi Arabia. His work features in important collections including the British Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is adamant about his commitment to Saudi Arabia and said: “Move abroad? No way. My art is related to the people living in Saudi Arabia. I am living in one of the most interesting countries in the world. Why move? I want to show you what has happened in this country. This is my mission.”
Born in 1973 in Khamis Mushait where he still lives and works, Gharem is both a practicing artist and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Saudi Arabian Army. He studied at the Al-Miftaha Arts Village in Abha along with his friend Ahmed Mater and is now recognized and a pioneer of conceptual art in Saudi Arabia. His work features in important collections including the British Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is adamant about his commitment to Saudi Arabia and said: “Move abroad? No way. My art is related to the people living in Saudi Arabia. I am living in one of the most interesting countries in the world. Why move? I want to show you what has happened in this country. This is my mission.”
Abdulnasser Gharem, Message/ Messenger
Ahmed Mater, who co-founded Edge of Arabia with Gharem, is a practicing doctor who lives and works in the Aseer region of Sounthern Saudi Arabia. Much celebrated for his X-Ray Illumination series, the work offered for sale, Evolution of Man is a series of five light boxes showing a petrol pump in x-ray form slowly evolving into the head and torso of a man pointing the pump nozzle and then a gun to his head (estimated $22,000-28,000). He describes himself as “…the son of this strange, scary oil civilization.”
Ahmed Mater, Evolution of Man
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MANAMA. The works that will be showcased explore the nostalgia and yearning artists have towards icons they grew up with, and portray a journey to the past; a journey home. The Middle Eastern artists explore diverse expressions of what they are nostalgic about within the Arab world. The nostalgia is presented within their works in a modern sense. Mohammed Omar Khalil presents in his work, a recollection of Um Kulthum, one of the Arab world's most famous and influential singers of the 20th century. Hakim Ghazali puts forth his new compositions of which include the implementation of a material derived from palm trees, known as ‘Haseer’ in Arabic. The material was ever-present throughout his childhood and as he grew up, and is still used today in a variety of different forms. Nasr Warwour directs his nostalgic outlook towards Mesopotamia and Khalil Al Hashmi depicts birds, and showcases what they represented within the Arab world and finally Mohammed AlMahdi is nostalgic about all his childhood memories. All the artists are producing special works for art DUBAI 2011.
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