ARTISTS
More Than 10,000 Visitors Attended Menasart Fair 2011
Artworks Worth US $ 1 Million Sold During The Five Days Of The Event
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01 Aug, 2011
After a launch in 2010 as a "year zero", the first edition of Menasart Fair 2011, achieved an international success.
Focusing on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region, the event confirmed the intuition of the Menasart Fair鈥檚 protagonists: to place Beirut as a nerve center of the art鈥檚 market of this vast geographical area.
Under the patronage of His Excellency Gaby Layoun, Minister of Culture, and the French Ambassador to Lebanon Denis Pietton, Menasart Fair opened its doors on July 12, in the presence of many diplomats, businessmen, collectors and art lovers in the region.
The 25 international galleries that participated in this first edition have highly appreciated the outstanding attendance at the fair and the fruitful contacts with collectors. Most of the galleries made many transactions and many promising agreements took place between participants and professionals from the art market.
With a total of more than 10,000 visitors in just five days, including the opening night, (60% Lebanese and 40% foreigners from Europe and the Middle East) purchases were numerous and totalized a turnover that exceeded US $ 1 million.
The artwork sold included four sculptures by Nadim Karam presented by Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 鈥� Beirut 鈥� Dubai) and watercolor paintings by Abdul Qader Al Rais presented by Hunar Gallery of Dubai.
The modern and contemporary art of the Asia also called the attention of regional and international amateurs and collectors especially with the sale of three sculptures by Su Jianguo from Richard Koh Fine Art of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and artworks by Naiz Khan presented at Rossi & Rossi of London.
The program of conferences and round tables, supported by an exceptional panel of international speakers who had come especially for the occasion, was very well attended, leading to discussions and exchanges between the public and the participants. Among these, let鈥檚 note the intervention of Catherine David (curator), Carole Prat (Audiovisual and Cultural Attach茅 of the French Embassy in Lebanon), Dr. Francesco Buranelli (Professor and Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Church鈥檚 Cultural Heritage), Dr. Geoffrey King (School of Oriental and African Studies), Mona Khazindar (Director of the Institut du Monde Arabe - Paris), Sirine Fattouh (Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris), Her Royal Highness, Princess Reem Al Faisal.
The national, regional and international press, supported by wide internet coverage, echoed the success of this first edition of MENASART-FAIR through several hundreds of publications.
The second edition of Menasart Fair 2011 is slated to take place from July 2 to July 7, 2012.
Focusing on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region, the event confirmed the intuition of the Menasart Fair鈥檚 protagonists: to place Beirut as a nerve center of the art鈥檚 market of this vast geographical area.
Under the patronage of His Excellency Gaby Layoun, Minister of Culture, and the French Ambassador to Lebanon Denis Pietton, Menasart Fair opened its doors on July 12, in the presence of many diplomats, businessmen, collectors and art lovers in the region.
The 25 international galleries that participated in this first edition have highly appreciated the outstanding attendance at the fair and the fruitful contacts with collectors. Most of the galleries made many transactions and many promising agreements took place between participants and professionals from the art market.
With a total of more than 10,000 visitors in just five days, including the opening night, (60% Lebanese and 40% foreigners from Europe and the Middle East) purchases were numerous and totalized a turnover that exceeded US $ 1 million.
The artwork sold included four sculptures by Nadim Karam presented by Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 鈥� Beirut 鈥� Dubai) and watercolor paintings by Abdul Qader Al Rais presented by Hunar Gallery of Dubai.
The modern and contemporary art of the Asia also called the attention of regional and international amateurs and collectors especially with the sale of three sculptures by Su Jianguo from Richard Koh Fine Art of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and artworks by Naiz Khan presented at Rossi & Rossi of London.
The program of conferences and round tables, supported by an exceptional panel of international speakers who had come especially for the occasion, was very well attended, leading to discussions and exchanges between the public and the participants. Among these, let鈥檚 note the intervention of Catherine David (curator), Carole Prat (Audiovisual and Cultural Attach茅 of the French Embassy in Lebanon), Dr. Francesco Buranelli (Professor and Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Church鈥檚 Cultural Heritage), Dr. Geoffrey King (School of Oriental and African Studies), Mona Khazindar (Director of the Institut du Monde Arabe - Paris), Sirine Fattouh (Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris), Her Royal Highness, Princess Reem Al Faisal.
The national, regional and international press, supported by wide internet coverage, echoed the success of this first edition of MENASART-FAIR through several hundreds of publications.
The second edition of Menasart Fair 2011 is slated to take place from July 2 to July 7, 2012.
