Beirut Art Fair |
 Lara Atallah, 'Abandoned School Series', 2011, 105 X 70 cm, Archival Print on Cotton Paper Edition of 5, Courtesy Ayyam Gallery - Lebanon - UAE - Syria Beirut Art Fair, the art fair dedicated to modern and contemporary artists from the region ME.NA.SA. (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia), prepares its third installment with forty galleries amassed by Laure d'Hauteville, Pascal Odille and Jean-Marc Decrop. Alongside the galleries, several exhibitions promise great discoveries branded “ME.NA.SA.” in the domain of street art, VJing, comics, video, sculpture and installations. Catherine David was invited by BEIRUT ART FAIR to devote herself to one of the spaces of the fair for presenting a new project that has never been exposed as a part of an arts event. This is the correspondence of two big personalities of the Arab contemporary culture: the Saudi writer Abdel Rahman Munif, notable author of “City of Salt”, a five-volume novel which analyzes the upheavals experienced by the discovery of oil in the Gulf countries and the painter Marwan (Marwan Kassab Bachi), considered on the greatest Arab artists. This set of letters (largely illustrated in the case of Marwan) – accompanied from a series of watercolor preparations made by Marwan for the book covers of Munif – show a crossed reflection on the literature and plastic, as far as the status of the intellectual and of the artist in the Arab and contemporary world. The “Video Box” brings together the works of the most remarkable video artists of the “ME.NA.SA.” region. The exhibition “This is not wonderland” conceived by Pascal Odille consists of monumental sculptures, visual and sound installations. A meandering takes place through a labyrinth, to discover aspects of the contemporary Lebanese creations with the artists themselves as the only guides. At these “events in the event” there is a series of conferences and round tables which reaffirm the role of Beirut as the cultural capital for the Arab world, Iran and Turkey.Forty modern and contemporary art galleries representing creations of the “ME.NA.SA.” region in all its diversity through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, street art, and comics move into the spaces of BIEL. This year the fair broadens its scope to design with the participation of several international galleries, who have chosen to exhibit the work of their creators in Beirut this July. The design galleries exhibiting for the first time at BEIRUT ART FAIR include the gallery Smogallery (Lebanon), Musk & Amber lifestyle concept store (Tunisia), Carwan Art Gallery (Lebanon), 20-21 Gallery (Lebanon).
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