Thursday, February 23, 2023

Tween Artist Mikail Akar Changes Face of the Art World

 

Tween Artist Mikail Akar Changes Face of the Art World with Unprecedented Vision at Young Age
Artist Mikail Akar (Photo Credit: MA Photography)
The 10-year-old creator is making a lasting impression 
on the world with abstract paintings

Young artist Mikail Akar is making waves in the art world at the tender age of just 10 years old. The tween creator already is a bona fide painter with works found worldwide and showcasing in numerous exhibitions around the globe. His colorful work appeals to lovers of contemporary art as the prodigy draws his inspiration from historical figures including Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Baskiat and Gerhard Richter.
 
Mikail's paintings are collected internationally among art collectors and celebrities alike. Already making a huge mark on the international press circuit he has appeared on Fox News, BBC News, Yahoo, and the pages of the “New York Post.”
 
Born in 2012 in Cologne, his career began relatively carefree. For his fourth birthday his parents gave him a small canvas and finger paints simply because they didn't want to buy Legos or toy cars again. Mikail began his prolific artistic journey at this exact moment.
 
His talents were seen in a first painting and his parents fully encouraged him to continue his work. Watching YouTube videos together with Mikail he learned certain painting techniques and soon the little artist soon began to paint nonstop. His introduction into the art world launched shortly after with adult artists wanting to preview his work more and more.
 
His father Kerem expresses, "You have to be behind the kids instead of in front of them."Mikail had his first exhibition at the age of four in August 2017 in the SBK in Cologne Longerich. At the age of five, he exhibited his paintings in the gallery Kunstbruder in Cologne. The third exhibition was then in September 2018 at the Galleria Palatina in Großkarlbach. The next stop was October 2018 at the Art Haus in Düsseldorf.”
 
Further exhibitions followed in Hamburg and Jüchen. Later, his works were on display at the Landtag NRW and Bankhaus August Lenz in Berlin. As a visual artist, he does not want to limit himself to canvases, he recently painted a wreckage part of the Airbus 310. This wreckage part is 150 cm wide and 190 cm long (approximately 5’ by 7’). It has already been exhibited in Cologne/Bonn Airport and will be shown in other international airports in the future.
“Jokeman” by Artist Mikail Akar (Photo Credit: MA Photography)
In 2020, during the lockdown, when all events were cancelled and postponed, Mikail launched his virtual exhibition "My World is Colorful" to create an opportunity for art enthusiasts to admire his artworks from afar.
 
Mikail had already created several exhibitions in Germany, international art collectors soon became aware of the little artist. This led to further exhibitions in Vienna, Istanbul, and New York City. Mikail has his own studio in Cologne where he regularly paints.
 
The young artist also has a philanthropic side and has gained notable attention with his work being auctioned for good causes such as the “Art Helps to Give” campaign. He has also painted numerous times together with German celebrities such as the Höhnern, Laith Al-Deen, Manuel Neuer or Peter Mafay. Additionally, the painter has also launched charity events in Turkey to help local people during the earthquake in 2020.
“Red place” by Artist Mikail Akar (Photo Credit: MA Photography)
Despite his exciting life, Mikail has remained a normal child in everything, he goes to school in Cologne and is fully supported by his parents and two siblings.
 

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Magazzino Italian Art: Saturday Feb. 25, 2023, 12 PM Pensiero Plurale: Present Memories: On the Politics of Image-Making

Dawit Petros, Istruzioni (Transits, Trajectories, Invisible Networks), Part III, Serigraph on Arnhem paper, 22x30 in. (56x76 cm), 2021. Courtesy the artist.

Pensiero Plurale: Present Memories: On the Politics of Image-Making

The fourth iteration of Pensiero Plurale, curated by Ilaria Conti.

In conjunction with Black History Month, Magazzino Italian Art is pleased to present Present Memories: On the Politics of Image-Making, the fourth iteration of Pensiero Plurale, a series of programs conceived and curated by Ilaria Conti centered on issues of cultural and social justice, intersectional thinking, and the arts across Italy and the United States. 
 
Present Memories explores the politics behind some of the incomplete or fictitious narratives that continue to shape historical memories and present-day identities in connection to Italy. The invited speakers, Dawit L. Petros, Teresa Fiore, and Mistura Allison, will discuss strategies to question and critically rethink such processes of knowledge-formation through visual and material culture.

Learn more about the program here.

Program
 
Dawit L. Petros, in conversation with Teresa Fiore | 12:00 p.m.
Lunch | 1:15 p.m.
Mistura Allison | 2:15 p.m.
 
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Casey Chalem Anderson new work" Stopped in my Tracks"".

 

Stopped in my Tracks



In the 02/22/2023 edition: 
By casey on Feb 21, 2023 05:28 pm

Ocean Flow

“Ocean Flow” 24″ x 60″ oil/canvas by Casey Chalem Anderson

I couldn’t wait a moment longer. When the newly finished wood floors were dry, I removed my shoes at the door and entered in socks only. In a glance, I devoured the entire living room; the place looked fantastic. It was spare, open, soft, and gentle, exactly how I had envisioned it. But when I looked over at the space above the fireplace, I knew what was missing. I had to create the perfect painting for the room, and it had to be a five-foot-wide ocean wave.

I think art sets the tone in a room. It’s a focal point and one of the most vital elements to create the desired mood in a space. A painting gives heart and warmth to a room. It is the ultimate accessory. When a painting of the glorious color of a breaking wave vibrates and the shimmering foam seems to vanish into the sand, the meditative perception of the ocean is recreated right in your living room.

Casey Chalem Anderson

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I am a Fan of Opera! Catch the Encompass New Opera Theatre Scheduled for March , 23, 2023 below:

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Art Dubai, 2023 Art Talks up date.

 

ART DUBAI TALKS PROGRAMME 2023

 

Each year, Art Dubai convenes a broad cross-section of the brightest cultural and creative minds to exchange ideas. Continuing our commitment to dialogue, diverse voices and the development of Dubai’s cultural infrastructure, the 2023 talks programme will be the largest to date, with over 50 sessions across five days.

Highlights include the 16th edition of our flagship Global Art Forum; the Middle Eastern debut of Christie’s Art+Tech summit; a series of Modern and Collector talks developed in partnership with Dubai Collection; and the inaugural Dubai edition of the Art Business Conference.

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GLOBAL ART FORUM 16

Art Dubai's celebrated transdisciplinary conference, the Global Art Forum, returns for its 16th edition to explore the theme “Predicting the Present”. Commissioned by Shumon Basar, and taking place across two days, the Forum is interested in navigation tools for our uncertain times and how stories, experiments and speculations about culture, innovation and society point toward new sources of optimism.

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CHRISTIE'S ART+TECH SUMMIT

Christie’s brings its renowned Art+Tech summit to the Middle East for the first time at Art Dubai.  The agenda-setting conference will explore the areas of AI, digital asset ownership, financial innovation and Blockchain bringing together international creators and collectors across art and technology. Attendees will hear from and interact with innovators at the forefront of building and developing disruptive new products and businesses including leading regional speakers such as Mudassir Sheikha, CEO and Founder of Careem.
 

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MODERN TALKS

Art Dubai Modern guest curators Mouna Mekouar and Lorenzo Giusti invite speakers to advance a critical reflection on the status of modern art in the territories of North Africa, Middle East and South Asia. These conversations re-appraise art-historical canons and investigate the historiography of mid-20th century abstraction, production and the reception of works. Panelists include Member of the Dubai Collection Curatorial Committee Dr. Nada Shabout, and Director of Sursock Museum, Beirut, Karina El Helou.

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COLLECTOR TALKS

This series focuses on the collectors driving the development of art scenes across the Global South; emerging trends in traditional and digital collecting across the region, and what it means to be an arts patron in a place that is developing and implementing new institutional models. Speakers include Guerlain Master Perfumer Thierry Wasser, Senior Curator at the Pinault Collection Caroline Bourgeois, founder of Teo Yang Studio Teo Yang, and collector Charif Ben Romdane.

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ART BUSINESS CONFERENCE

The first Middle East edition of the Art Business Conference convenes art professionals to discuss the topics that are most relevant in the art world and the key issues in today’s art market. The Dubai edition of the conference focuses on the practical measures art organisations can take to become more sustainable.

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ART DUBAI TALKS

A series of talks held across the week will be led by leading global and UAE cultural based institutions that includes a talk by artist Manal Aldowayan with Misk Art Institute, artist Timo Nasseri as part of the Etihad Museum programme, and Ruinart Art and Culture Director Fabien Vallerian discussing the Ruinart Prize.

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