In July, Cuadro pays homage to Color – playing off the works of our leading stable artists and Color Coding the entire gallery.

The exhibition runs throughout our entire 13,000 Sq feet of exhibition space that is segmented and ‘coded’ into the colors Blue, Green, Black, Red, Brown and White.

For the artist, the use of color is one of the most powerful forms of visual expression and communication.  Some artists have become renowned for their distinct preference and use of certain colors that are iconic to their creations. 

Colors play on our emotions in a variety of ways. Whether heightening awareness, acting as a calming sensory, characterizing an element of passion or just taking the viewer into a dream like dimension.  This summer Cuadro celebrates COLOR !

Universe of the Child is the result of his interactions and work with both the ‘Special Needs’ and ‘Able-Bodied’ children of these regions; creating paintings representative of their: aspirations, their understanding of themselves and their sense of identity and belonging to both their national and international community as well as their sense of expression both internal and external and their dreams - their sense of truth and how they relate to their anthropological past, emotional present and hopeful future. An attempt to capture the soul and spirit of each individual country through the eyes, hearts and minds of the ‘Child’. - A barometer of truth for each country’s pulse, heart-beat and spirit.  ‘My paintings aim to uplift, excite and energize us beyond this world and into the more emotive and dream-like aspirations within the Transitional World of Magical Realism – an electric shock to the senses, aiming to uplift the soul and seduce the spirit’.  

Following its worldwide unveiling at Cuadro, the collection will be exhibited at 12 museums around the world and will be auctioned off to raise as much money and awareness as possible for the suffering and underprivileged ‘special needs’ and ‘war-torn’ children of the world.

This March, Cuadro unveils new works by hyper-realist sculptor Marc Sijan. These sculptures of everyday people have become iconic to Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.  In his sculptures, Sijan does not celebrate the ideal form; his works are tributes to real people and in their realism they are unpretentious and gritty; communicating a deep sense of emotion. In order to achieve the ultra-realistic finish, Sijan initially works from a live model and produces a plaster mould. He then sculpts the interior of the mould with tools and a magnifying glass and then casts the figure in a polyester resin. To achieve realistic flesh tones, Sijan applies up to seventy-five coats of paint and varnish. His goal is to achieve depth, yet translucency.  Sijan spends as long as six months reproducing these details on each piece.

Sijan has participated in over 200 museum exhibitions and 30 solo shows. Several of his sculptures are owned by museums, such as the Byer Museum of the Arts in Evenstan (Illinois, USA) and the San Francisco Museum of Arts (California, USA).

This March, Cuadro is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by artist Gary Komarin. Born in New York, Komarin studied under famous abstract expressionist Philip Guston and received numerous awards such as the Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting (1999) and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts grant (1999). Komarin has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the USA as well as in Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, the UK and Japan.

In March, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery is exhibiting works by UK artists: Maslen and Mehra in an exhibition titlted "Mirrored" . 

Maslen & Mehra create temporary interventions with mirrored sculptures, setting them up in various compositions in different contexts and photographing them with a medium format camera. Their works see people from an urban context placed in a more natural environment. The juxtaposition of highly urban people placed in more natural landscapes result in works that raise issues of human existence on earth and alludes to the impermanence and fragility of mankind.

For this exhibition, the photographs are presented on large advertising light boxes that have been salvaged after spending over 15 years in the London underground. 

This March Cuadro showcases works by artist in residence, Alex De Fluvia who spent 3 months in Dubai working from a fully equipped studio at Cuadro Fine Art Gallery. His residency is part of a comprehensive program of local and international residencies aimed at the development of the Arts in the Gulf. 

Upon his arrival, he visited key cultural spots in different emirates and experienced the harmonious balance between tradition and modernity in the UAE. 

De Fluvia also spent time researching new materials & media from the region to further develop his style.

Cuadro will unveil large scale works by De Fluvia and invite collectors to visit the Artist's studio based at Cuadro in the DIFC. 

An exhibition of artworks by pioneering Emirati artists will open on the 15th March 2010, featuring the works of Abdul Qader Al Rais, Mohamed Mandi, Dr. Najat Makki and Abdul Rahim Salim. This exhibition will coincide with the launch of the UAE Art books: A set of four publications that pay homage to the artistic development of the region aiming to make the art of the United Arab Emirates more accessible to the world. 

UAE Art is Cuadro Fine Art Publication's first set of books focusing on the Art of the UAE and is supported by HE Abdul Rahman Al Owais,  Minster of Culture, Youth and Community Development.

David Hewitt currently lives in the UAE and teaches Design at the American University of Sharjah.

Landscape is an intensely visual concept. People do not live in landscapes - they observe them. The viewer is by definition an outsider. Media images portray Saudi Arabia as a landscape of black figures floating in a space of absence. Interpretations of history and tradition emanating from memory are intermingled with stereotypes and preconceptions. Ultimately, it is a landscape in conflict with itself.

Al Dowayan also reassesses contexts of space and power, confronting the forces that dictate the rules of existence in her landscapes. She adds a layer of self-reflection driven by the desire to understand who holds the power to define perspectives and stereotypes: the observed, the observer, the artist or the outsider?

Born and raised in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Manal Al Dowayan’s artworks have been exhibited at international venues such as the United Nations in New York, The European Parliament in Brussels and, most recently, at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo Polignac. Her works are held in public collections including The British Museum, UK; The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Jordan; The Delfina Foundation, UK and The Jameel Foundation, KSA. Al Dowayan is represented by Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.

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