Abu Dhabi: The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s first international exhibition of the year Abstraction and Calligraphy Towards a Universal Language is set to open on Wednesday.
The exhibit invites visitors to explore the dawn of modern abstraction through the exploration of signs and symbols, and traces their origins to Asian and Arabic calligraphy, and to sites of mutual inspiration around the world.
The exhibition will run until June 12, and will bring together 86 pieces, including 80 on loans from partner institutions like the Centre Pompidou, a house for modern and contemporary art in Paris. It will showcase how 20th century abstract artists like Paul Klee, André Masson, Wassily Kandinsky, Cy Twombly, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock felt the need to establish a new universal, visual language that was inspired by calligraphy. The show will also focus on 20th and 21st century Arab artists from Dia Azzawi and Anwar Jalal Shemza, to Ghada Amer, Shirazeh Houshiary, Mona Hatoum and oth
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“Your parents leave a place, and somehow you have this deep connection to it – even if you’ve never been there, or you don’t quite understand it,” says artist Rand Abdul Jabbar about her latest project,
Every Act of Recognition Alters What Survives,
which looks at generations of diaspora.
“You’re always feeling somewhere in between. It was getting to that ‘in between’ – and opening up that conversation to other voices to see how they think about it – that allows you to start making
sense of your own experience,” she says.
The Baghdad-born artist, who lives in Abu Dhabi, is developing her new work for Shubbak