Gallery offers visitors rare artistic experiences Sunday, 08 August 2010 00:38

DOHA: Al Markhiya Gallery celebrates the Summer this year with a collection of local art, simply called the Summer Collection. The Summer Collection is split into three parts.

There is not a difference between the three parts other than the gallery’s desire to offer visitors something different over the next few months and to showcase as varied a group of contemporary Arab artists as possible. The Summer Collection Part 2 starts on July 29 and runs until 22nd August 2010.
The idea of the gallery focuses on how to allow the public to identify many of the techniques, cultures and experiences of many artists from different generations, and thus brought together in one show from various Arab countries. It also provides an opportunity to identify the extent to which Arab artists have knowledge of modern methods and take advantage of their broad cultural heritage.
There are well-established Qatari artists like Ali Hassan, Salman Al Malik and Yousef Ahmad. There are also artists from other Arab countries, such as Iraq (Salman Abbas - Ahmed Al Bahrani - Salem Mazkor - Mahmoud al-Obeidi - Falah al-Saidi), Sudan (Al Moez al Agami - Islam Kamel), Syria (Adnan Hemida - Ghada Dohni - Adnan Abdul-Rahman - Ghazwan Allaf - Hsko Hsko - Nihad Al-Turk - Abdul Karim Majdal Beck), Saudi Arabia (Zaman Jassim), Egypt (Adel Al Siwi - the late Salah Taher), Bahrain (Hala Al Khalifa), Palestine (Mohamed Al Wehibi), and other distinguished artists.
The gallery also aims to highlight the diversity of contemporary art forms, providing the opportunity to the public of Doha to read the Arab art scene and make comparisons and connections with a variety of rich experiences through the work of art in that gallery.
The first part of the gallery had started on June 8 and continued until July 25, 2010 and it was attended by artists from Qatar and distinguished artists from several Arab countries. The third part is scheduled to begin at the end of August and it will also continue for three weeks.
Visitors of the gallery feel like flying in a forest of beauty, collecting paintings from Iraq, Qatar, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Every piece of work has a history and some of them are made by great artists, such as Ali Hassan al-Bahrani, and Salah Taher, among others.
The gallery provided a rare opportunity for the public to roam among Arab artistic experiences with different strengths and characteristics. It collects a number of different techniques and combines sculpture and painting together.