World Art Dubai is happening this weekend and the entire Arte & Lusso team is excited to discover the art of all the local and international artists at the much awaited art fair. We have created a list of some of the most inspiring artists to keep an eye on this season so make sure you find them at the fair and explore their art. As an official media partner of World Art Dubai, we will be discovering the new talent and sharing the most exciting stories both on the portal as well as social media.
Petra Kantenbach, Germany
The awarded German fine artist and one of the Curators of World Art Dubai, Petra Kaltenbach, carries out her passion in making transformation themed art while living in Dubai. Previously owning an advertising agency has allowed Petra to develop the skills to create designs using digital media and printing these on her artworks.
Collaboration with Tanya Ashraf/ROXX Fashion
An intercultural art and fashion project to be launched in spring 2020 The two creators, Tanya and Petra, have joined together to partner in an art inspired fashion line where the core themes are ‘Pomegranate’ and ‘Love’, expressed through the clothes. Instead of copying Petra’s artworks as a whole onto the clothes, Tanya uses elements from the art such as pomegranates, cupid, and love arrows and combines them with her own touch to create high end fashion pieces. Once the design is decided upon, it is printed onto 100 percent smooth silk. All pieces are completely locally produced but are the works of two intercultural minds coming together to design and create beautiful and astounding pieces in which you dress to impress.
See more of Petra’s art work on www.petrakaltenbach.com and @Petra_Kaltenbach
Manasse Rampino, Italy
Manasse’s academic background is in classical art. He studied oil painting, restauration, mosaic and life drawing techniques, but he always felt an inclination to be instinctive in how he create. He wanted that the art to reflect his love for colors so he started experimenting with these explosions of colors on canvas. This is how he embraced pop and abstract art.
Merging different, or even opposed subjects fascinates his reinterpreting classical themes in a modern key, juxtaposing color spots with more refined shades, opposing black and white with bright colors, figurative with abstract arts.
While his art works are inspired by classical and pop art, he likes to mix opposite concepts like explosions of colors/black and white, abstract/figurative, classic/modern and color’s spots/shades. In his painting there is space for nature and animals, but also for classical portraits and sculpture. His vision can be enclosed in one word: CONTRAST.
Follow Manasse’s work on @Manasse_paintings
Valentina Alexeevna, Russia
Valentina was born in Moscow, Russia and lived in Dubai since 1999. She lives through the eyes and the world of a doll. Valentina is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums. Her art explores identity, femininity and energy visualisation. She often paints dolls and creates abstract mixed media art. Valentina exhibited her art across the UAE, including World Art Dubai in 2019 and this year. Since 2017 she is also an art teacher who was conducting almost all the workshops at World Art Dubai in 2019 and looks forward to teaching this year!
Discover Valentina’s art www.aValentina.com @Valentina.Alexeevna
Sanaa Merchant, Pakistan
Sanaa Merchant is known for traditional Arabian themes with a modern perspective. The artist’s practice ranges from ornamental works to modernism in abstract and calligraphic forms. Moreover, the use of vibrant bold colors, with their dimensional forms gives them a thought provoking process in the development. In addition to this the use of the intense pen and ink compositions seen in most of Merchant’s works gives it an extra touch of detail.
The contemporary results seen in her work break the rules of the conventional outlook usually imposed since she is influenced by Arabic contemporary styles and their enriched layered colors. The artist gets most of her exposure from her surroundings since she has been born and brought up in the UAE
Furthermore, her recent works & methods have shifted focus in modern abstracts as well in her high interest in resin art has experimented her to create everyday functional art for corporates and the everyday buyer making her art trendy & affordable.
See Sanaa’s work on @Sanaa.Merchant and www.sanaamerchant.com
Dina Khataan, Egypt
Dina Khataan is an award-winning Dubai based Egyptian artist who masters experimental art, using resin and fluid mixes, in the middle east. She has lived the later half of her life in Cape Town, South Africa immersed in natural beauty and diverse cultures; the secret to her inspiration.
Her first participation in an art exhibition was at the age of 9 years, an exhibition named “motherhood”, later in her life, at the age of 17, she used to enjoy painting with charcoal as a hobby; “my eyes used to scan everything in black and white! I refrained from using colours in all my paintings”. She says that her grandfather was her childhood ‘art mentor’; a fine painter and a sculptor who was heavily influenced by japanese art. “watching the process of art creation from an early age heavily influenced my vision of everything in life.” -Dina says.
“Art is my muse, a way to manifest the perfect imperfections of life.”
Dina is self-taught, hence, highly experimental with her materials. Her art is free-flowing, intuitive and innovative. Dina has developed her own trademark techniques that she shared in her workshops.
See more of Dina’s work at dinakhataanart.com and @DinaKhataanArt
Sonu Sultania, India
Sonu is an award-winning contemporary artist, who is driven by her dreams, passion and emotions. Her works revolves around a fable, a stolen moment, a dream or a journey, which could be real or a fantasy, but would definitely be magical. Sonu likes experimenting with several techniques and media but Alcohol Inks & Oils are her favorite. The process behind her Alcohol ink paintings is very therapeutic which blends meditation with her artistic ideas and helps her focus on her perceptions, imagination, and feelings to create something that explores & expresses her inner world as well as her surroundings.
Having lived in several countries, Sonu uses travelling as a great opportunity to explore and delve into the cultural influences and origins of the art produced in those various communities, cities and countries. Sonu also gets her inspirations from her photography and various philosophies which focus on nature, love, spirituality, community development and personal development through self-discipline and responsibility. Sonu has participated in several art exhibitions across the world & was recently awarded the Noon Artist Award 2019 for her work, Spring in Her Steps. Among her private projects, she has been commissioned custom artworks for many high-profile private clients in UAE & around the world.
Follow Sonu on @sonusultaniaa
Edu Danesi Represented by Gallery27
Originally from Sao Paulo in Brazil, Edu Danesi has lived and worked in Belgium since 1996. A few years after having obtained his diploma from the school of photography in the city of Brussels, Edu decided to convert to painting. Self-taught, he works with several techniques such as painting, collage, drawing, graffiti and stencil on different medias such as canvas, wood, metal or wall.
“The important thing is that the image speaks, that it conveys an emotion.”
Porsche, a passion that gave birth to the Art Nine Eleven Collection that turns Porsche 911 hoods into authentic works of art.
With a very elegant and sophisticated spirit, Edu’s hoods are inhabited by famous figures who have an intimate relationship with the German brand, such as Paul New, James Dean, Jacky Ickx, or the “king of cool” steve McQueen.
See Edu’s work on www.gallery27dubai.com
Aditi Patwari, DEA Textile Art, India
Aditi Patwari is Dea’s founder and textile artist and designer who has created projects for interiors, stationary and fashion. She has lived and worked in India, the UK, and the UAE, where she currently resides.
Aditi is excited by architecture and geometry, which tend to be the focus of her textile work. She specializes in pattern design, material manipulation, laser cutting and etching, and digital embroidery. Her textiles are inspired by travel, and her collections tell the stories of her journeys.
As an artist, her visual inspiration comes from a trip to a new city, understanding its cultural heritage, and its architectural language. Through her work, she wishes to communicate that no matter how different we might be on the surface, we are all looking for the same things in life – love, happiness and connection.
Dea mixes hand crafted elements with innovative technologies to create bespoke textile art pieces for high-end interiors. Every artwork is inspired by a city, its cultural heritage and architectural language. Textiles have always represented rich histories of the communities that create them.
Daniel Civira, Venezuela
A photographer from Venezuela, based in Dubai and Currently studying Design at DIDI. Over the 2 years with his camera has been focused on various types of art such as portraits, still life, automotive, sports and much more.
My goal is to capture throughout my camera the daily routine and turn into stories that you can read in images
More than just pressing a button, his perception of seeing the world through the lens tells why moments must be captured every time.
His inspirantions started from taken random pictures of every car seen on the streets. So after he decided to become the best on the field. That allowed him to take his studies to another level knowing different styles of photography, so after Daniel already knew the path he will be following for the next years of his artistic life.
Daniel declares that photography is a way of reading through images. Unlike a book, they make you feel like everyone are part of their own story.
Farah A. Malhas, Jordan
In her early childhood, Farah grew up surrounded by art. Being creative was both essential and encouraged by her late father, she is a self-taught artist in that regard. Farah’s father would often say; “an artist never makes mistakes, never erase anything.” This has become the focal point of her work. She uses mixed media (predominantly oil, acrylic, and spray paint) on large canvases, her signature size being 200 x 180cm, and combines heavy Arabic poetic versus with fun Disney/cartoon characters to get a specific message across.
Farah is mostly inspired by her own collage of sorrow and tragedy. This specific style of work has become a means of therapy and a way to make light of heavy situations, the first of which was the untimely passing of her father in 2012. The calligraphy and paint in her work bleeds symbolizing the tears she cried over his loss. The pieces are messy and sometimes incomplete, just like life.
Follow Farah’s artistic journey on @Ms.Malhas
Shelina Khimji, Tanzania
Shelina is a self-taught artist drawn to art since her childhood. Art journey Over a decade long career, her lockdown artwork was featured on CNN Style, while she has been a two time finalist in the New York and Los Angeles Coffee Art Project, a winner and a runner up at the KSIJ local community art competitions, a participant in the sketchbook project where her sketchbook toured USA and Canada, as well as a regular participant in the EA Art Biennale to name a few. She has sold her paintings to Ahlulbait TV, an Islamic channel in UK for auctioning, Flightlink, a local airline Company in Tanzania and to a cafeteria in Australia apart from individuals and contacts around her circle.
Colour and realism is her powerful symbolism as it reflects her happy persona and her ideal world imagery. She believes art has allowed her to dip her brush into her soul and paint away her fantasies. The imaginary places and dreams that she expresses on the canvas permit her to lose herself and fulfil her inner longings by bringing them alive in a painting. She loves to do challenging concepts that give her a sense of achievement. She also has a natural knack for drawing and her style includes sketches, abstracts, impressionism, collage, portraits and figurative art, sceneries and perspective art as long as she can portray realism in them. She uses oil and acrylics. See more of Shelina’s work on https://shelinakhimji.wixsite.com/sksart
World Art Dubai will host more than 120 artists and galleries from 25 countries, with more than 40 per cent of art talent travelling to the emirate from overseas.
To learn more about the fair and to book your tickets visit www.worldartdubai.com
See you at World Art Dubai!
Stay inspired,
Slava Noor
