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Vernissage of Lavinia Exhibition
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LAVINIA TALKS
Follow our program during March at DIFC, West Wing.
Serendipity or “the magic of finding something while looking for something else”, a simple and wonderful word that has its origin in the Arabic vocabulary, opens our eyes away from an immediate reality to a possible dream still concealed.
The exhibition “.SERENDIPITY” is an exhibition of exclusively women art of the Middle East, in the prominent Al Safa Design & Arts Library in Dubai.
Curated by the MIA Art Collection team under direction of the founder Alejandra Castro Rioseco, SERENDIPITY is a journey across more than 30 works of art of over 10 countries in the Middle East region, each work carefully selected for their value and thematic relationship to reflect the viewpoint of MIA ART Collection of respect and admiration for women artists, their work and their trajectory.
Each artwork tells a different story. Each artwork in its proper way relates to the value of being a woman in the arts. The artists across generations include Shirin Neshat, Effat Nagui, Azza Al Qubaisi, Lulwah Al Homoud and Nayla Romanos Iliya, to name a few.
The exhibition “.SERENDIPITY” has been created to connect with and rejoice the 50th Anniversary of the United Arab Emirates, celebrating its welcoming and integration of world cultures through art.
On March 10th at the MIA Art Collection Gala Dinner & Awards, in collaboration with BULGARI, ten personalities received the prestigious MIA Award as a recognition for their distinguished effort in supporting women visibility in the world of art.
.SERENDIPITY official opening Ceremony opened on March 8th on the International Women´s Day and was open to the public until March 31st at the Al Safa Design & Arts Library.
You can read our SERENDIPITY catalogue here:
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Serendipity
MIA ART COLLECTION, IN COLLABORATION WITH DUBAI CULTURE,
PRESENT ITS ART EXHIBITION ‘.SERENDIPITY’
AT THE AL SAFA DESIGN & ARTS LIBRARY CENTER
Serendipity or “the magic of finding something while looking for something else”, a simple and wonderful word that has its origin in the Arabic vocabulary, opens our eyes away from an immediate reality to a possible dream still concealed.
The exhibition “.SERENDIPITY” is an exhibition of exclusively women art of the Middle East, in the prominent Al Safa Design & Arts Library in Dubai.
Curated by the MIA Art Collection team under direction of the founder Alejandra Castro Rioseco, SERENDIPITY is a journey across more than 30 works of art of over 10 countries in the Middle East region, each work carefully selected for their value and thematic relationship to reflect the viewpoint of MIA ART Collection of respect and admiration for women artists, their work and their trajectory.
Each artwork tells a different story. Each artwork in its proper way relates to the value of being a woman in the arts. The artists across generations include Shirin Neshat, Effat Nagui, Azza Al Qubaisi, Lulwah Al Homoud and Nayla Romanos Iliya, to name a few.
The exhibition “.SERENDIPITY” has been created to connect with and rejoice the 50th Anniversary of the United Arab Emirates, celebrating its welcoming and integration of world cultures through art.
On March 10th at the MIA Art Collection Gala Dinner & Awards, in collaboration with BULGARI, ten personalities will receive the prestigious MIA Award as a recognition for their distinguished effort in supporting women visibility in the world of art.
.SERENDIPITY official opening Ceremony is on March 8th on the International Women´s Day and is open to the public from March 9th to 31st at the Al Safa Design & Arts Library.
Art bears a reasonable resemblance to the world of soccer. It is a world full of glamour and abysmal inequalities. The stars who shine with their own light fill their paychecks with astronomical figures while the team players, the bulk of the creators, struggle to make ends meet and even have to combine their creative work with other jobs.
Is creative work seen as a real job? Or is it simply seen as a hobby? Is this disregard for art the same for all artists or is it clearly sexist? The art market is not only made up of creators, other agents no less important make it up.
It is difficult to make a living from art without public or private commissions, sales, exhibitions. The protagonists in this case must be the public commissioners, the gallery owners or collectors who decide to buy and sell and make some of the artists visible. Is it the market that sets the trend or risk-taking gallerists and collectors? Is there a trend towards male art? Is there a trend? Does the price of the work vary if it is the work of a female artist? Do female gallerists and collectors bet more on female artists or, as Louise Bourgeois used to say, do these female gallerists reject outright the art of their female counterparts?
In technical work, do we see an abrupt difference between men and women? Since the restoration of works of art is mostly done by women, is this a key factor?
MIA ART Collection in the framework of the international fair ARCO proposes to develop a conversation between the different agents of the world of artistic creation to achieve answers, ideas, notions, strategies, currents about the price or value of art with a clear vision of gender. Thinking about how artists are valued when exhibiting, participating in fairs and / or private exhibitions for this conversation.
MIA ART COLLECTION
‘El Precio del Arte’ Conversation
FRIDAY 25th, February 2022
ARCO Madrid
R.S.V.P. at virtus@miaartcollection.org
MIA Anywhere Virtual Museum presents its retrospective virtual exhibition, showcasing the work of all the artists who have been through this initiative founded by philanthropist Alejandra Castro Rioseco in 2020, as support and visibility for women artists during the pandemic.
We invite all of our community to have a look to the three conversations we had, in collaboration with BLOC Art Perú, with all the artists of the virtual exhibition ‘The Present We Inhabit’ that is inside the MIA Anywhere Virtual Museum. We hope you enjoy these videos and get more information about female art and the Art from Perú.
MIA Art Collection, private art collection founded by philanthropist Alejandra Castro Rioseco launched its virtual museum on 2020 called MIA Anywhere, where it has showcased the work of more than 100 women artists from all over the world during the pandemic. Now, we present its second collaboration with BLOC Art Perú, a collection of Latin American Art founded by Brenda Ortiz Clarke.