Award-winning UAE artists to feature at Abu Dhabi Art

The Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation will mark its return to Abu Dhabi Art Fair next month by showcasing award-winning pieces by young Emiratis.

The emerging artists’ work will be part of the fair, which runs from November 5-8 at Manarat Al Saadiyat.

Works from two local artists will be displayed at the foundation’s pavilion, which itself is considered a work of art by the university students who designed it.

When designing the pavilion, the aspiring architects said their main inspiration was Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned Iraqi-British architect who designed the Sheikh Zayed Bridge and other high-profile projects.

One of the featured works is Fatma Fairooz’s oil painting on canvas titled Katharina, a portrait of one of her former professors at Zayed University that won her the Gulf Capital-Admaf Creativity Award this year.

Original article by Thamer Al Subaihi

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Award-winning UAE artists to feature at Abu Dhabi Art