Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The world of "Fatto A Mano" by Fendi

Since the 24th of March, the world of "FATTO A MANO" by Fendi showcased a live performance, at The Dubai Mall, of the artist Meera Huraiz working on her piece of art that was an inspiration from the ancestral Emirati traditional fabric (burka, embroidery and tribal pattern). From the heritage she deconstructs and creates sculptural pieces integrated with modern vision.

Meera Huraiz is a graduate from Zayed University in Dubai with a BA in Visual Arts. She has been selected among 100 emerging Asian artist. She believes culture is progressive and the present is a continuous conversation with the past.


With every emerging artist that is collaborating with Fendi, there is a professional atelier that helps them finish their art piece as will as creates fatto a mano (made by hand) handbags. Cyril (Giuseppe), the atelier, was born in Compiegne 60 km far from Paris, on June 29th 1978. He attended the prestigious Ecole CFT Gregoire in  Paris from 1994 to 1998, where he learnt the basis of model maker art. Since 1998 he has always been working in leather goods ateliers. In 2000 he left Italy to join Celine, on of the luxury brands in LVMH group. Finally in 2007 Cyril joined Fendi in Florence increasing his expertise in Selleria art. Cyril is one of the best artisan working in Fendi Bottega Artigiana. 










Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Art Dubai Opening Night!

It was a crazy night! The art fair was really big and I didn't had the chance to check out everything. For the readers who are not familiar with ArtDubai, its basically an international contemporary art fair that gathers artist and art professionals from across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and beyond. With the crowd and bumping into a lot of friends, I didn't have the chance to take a lot of pictures but I'll be exploring the whole fair till the 19th of March!



























































































Crazy crowd!!





























To be continued! XX

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

For REAL!!

Photography meets creativity this how I describe the great project "The Anteroom Series" by James Nizam, the Vancuver-based artisit. 



Friday, May 28, 2010

Cocktail Reception

I did not have the chance to publish this post yesterday with the previous post! .. But on the 26th of May too, it was a day full of events, I attended a cocktail reception for the opening of the exhibition titled "On the Wall" by Syrian artist Baseem Rayyes at the Aspen Cafe, Kempinksi Hotel, Mall of the Emirates. 

Baseem Rayyes is a great artist, collector and a person. His appreciation to art work is unbelievable, where he told me, "for 2 months don't buy a Chanel bag and instead buy a piece of art." He added, "art work can be cheaper than a handbag." He did not realize that I was carrying a Chanel handbag, and when he did he directly apologized! haha I told him that "Chanel is a piece of art to me."

I captured few of his wonderful work. Enjoy!


Thursday, May 27, 2010

The Largest Designer Toy Exhibition in the Middle East!

Yesterday, May 26th, I attended this great event by Project: MEGA in the Gate Village at DIFC; 'MEGA' is a creation of the urban arts collaborative 'Foo Dog' and is the first designer toy to be created by an Emarati - Mohammed Abedin. The event showcased 100 selected professional artist living in the UAE, whom customized these Mega toys with their own concepts making it one of the largest 'Custom Toys Exhibitions' in the Middle East and bring together a great artistic collaborations of artist in the region.