Officials take a look on the displays at ‘Arabian Horse Through the Masters’ Eyes’ exhibition at Katara Building 19.
DOHA: In the presence of a large audience of artists and media representatives, Dr. Khaled bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, General Manager of Katara, opened on Tuesday the ‘Arabian Horse Through the Masters’ Eyes’ exhibition at Building 19.
The exhibition features more than 60 canvases from the collection of Sheikh Saud bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani, which were painted by seven international artists: Peter Upton, Mary Haggard, Emad Al Taei, Gil Vanston, Robin Bastico, Deborah Rush and Elias Faizulin.
Sheikh Saud bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani expressed his desire to share with visitors his international paintings collection accomplished by the most famous artists from different nationalities. He began to collect these artworks since 2007, to express his passion of horse breeding and everything related to it. Iraqi artist Imad Al Tai participates with four of his paintings.
This exhibition documents the important stage of the history of Arabian horses, which has known a series of transfers, as many evolved from the horses of vehicles to the horses of wars to the beauty competitions, it was very necessary to document these transformations artistically and historically.
“It is interesting to note that those who documented these transformations were mostly western and not Arab artists, so I feel lucky to be the only Arab artist in this exhibition, which I consider to be a cultural and national duty above all”.
On the sidelines of this exhibition at Katara Building 19, which will continue until May 27, the audience will have the opportunity to attend a series of lectures by Iraqi artist Imad Al Tai, British artist Peter Upton and the Argentine artist Robin Bastico during three days, from Wednesday to Friday, 5pm to 6pm. They will discuss various topics related to the interest of artists in drawing Arabian horses and their cultural and artistic symbols.
