Edge of Arabia
Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, October 2008.
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“Throughout history, art has been a vehicle through which people have expressed their visions of humanity and articulated their views of the world and of their own cultures as part of the global cycle of change. The artistic movement in Saudi Arabia is rooted in the Saudi artist’s adherence to all which reflects the transcendental aura of ‘Arabia.’
Art in Saudi Arabia has experienced many fluctuations and intrinsic changes that have accompanied the intellectual and ideological upheaval in Saudi society. From the impressionist portrayal of social practices and ritualistic ways of celebrating religious and communal occasions, to the new generation’s surrealistic and symbolic depiction of the internal human struggle and thirst for peace and freedom, art in Saudi Arabia is flourishing, as evidence by its flamboyant arrival in the contemporary art world.”
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Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Sebail