Contemporary Emirati Art Exhibition - Dropping Lines - Magazine

ABU DHABI / Contemporary Emirati Art Exhibition opened on October 27th 2010 at Salwa Zeidan Gallery. The exhibition will be opened until November 20th 2010.

As a further step of the established collaboration between The Flying House and Salwa Zeidan Gallery the show â€œDropping Linesâ€ presents recent works from six artists of The Flying House, namely Abdul-Rahman Al Maâ€™aini, Layla Juma, Hassan Sharif, Hussain Sharif, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim and Mohammed Kazem. Being these artists oriented towards a wide range of different techniques, this exhibition presents paintings, prints, video, drawings and objects, thus selectively representing most of the expressive means of contemporary art.

Although individually recognizable and characterized, the artists on show have walked a long path together and do under certain circumstances and for some aspects echo each other, creating a series of ties and links which are then developed in their own autonomous way. For the art critic, trying to find resemblances and references in the work of â€œrelatedâ€ artists is always a tempting activity. Indeed, it is sometimes an intellectual challenge to discover and to reveal the influences an artist might have undergone. But there are threads which resist this kind of approach, since each and every artist has his/her own way of perceiving the context, the incentives and stimuli from the surrounding reality, thus ultimately creating profoundly diverse and individualized works starting with the very same situational context.

The works on show, carefully selected and displayed in a neat atmosphere allow the visitor to take a break, to reserve a moment to each and every piece, moving back and forth, looking for a glimpse of recognition and then enjoying loosing it.

Cristiana de Marchi
The Flying House