AMMAN Italian Ambassador in Jordan Fabio Cassese on Sunday inaugurated the “Diva! Italian Glamor in Fashion Jewellery” exhibition at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.Nearly 200 exclusive works of Italy’s costume jewellery masters and fashion designers are on display at the exhibition.
AMMAN Italian Ambassador in Jordan Fabio Cassese on Sunday inaugurated the “Diva! Italian Glamor in Fashion Jewellery” exhibition at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.Nearly 200 exclusive works of Italy’s costume jewellery masters and fashion designers are on display at the exhibition.
When Khaldoun Hijazin returned to his native Jordan in 2014 after earning his M.F.A. from Tufts, his immediate future was mapped out: teaching at the University of Jordan’s School of Arts and Design and building a career as a visual artist and cultural practitioner.
But he also yearned to share the inspiration he’d found at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA), where his originality flourished amid a steady and lively exchange of ideas. Not long after returning home, he was developing collaborative projects that brought new attention to the contemporary visual arts, fostering Jordanian artists and underscoring how they respond to the complex cultural and sociopolitical challenges facing their homeland and the wider Middle East.
Ayyam Gallery plays matchmaker for energetic art and hyper horology
26 Dec 2020
Muhammad Yusuf,
Features Writer
The contemporary pop up exhibition featuring Sharjah-based Mouteea Murad’s works in Roger Dubuis’s new flagship store in The Dubai Mall (till Jan. 2021-end), is the result of a collaboration between Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, and Roger Dubuis. “We have organised Murad’s geometric abstraction, strong lines and vibrant colours to echo Roger Dubuis’s designs”, says the gallery.
Dubuis is a Swiss watch manufacturer of luxury watches based in Geneva, Switzerland. Roger Dubuis watches include the Excalibur and Velvet collections, along with motorsports watches in collaboration with Lamborghini and Pirelli. The Roger Dubuis boutique is located on the ground floor of The Dubai Mall, a short walk from the Grand Atrium.
Al Qassemi, who runs the
Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, pledged to make his collection of modern and contemporary Arab art representative of both male and female artists.
He acquired a greater number of works by women artists, and then applied these changes to the display of the collection, which is on long-term loan to the Sharjah Art Museum. Titled
A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation: Chapter II, the show now finishes its first year of gender parity – but the decision remains controversial. What happens when, instead of working towards an equal representation of men and women through incremental change, you leapfrog to its realisation?