Fahad Hajailan, Amina Agueznay: The Art Library

Fahad Ha jailan, Amina Agueznay The Art Library

DISCOVERING ARAB ARTISTS

CURATED BY MONA KHAZINDAR AND MISK ART INSTITUTE

The fth and sixth volumes of The Art Library, a pioneering art series that documents the most important modern and contemporary Arab artists.

These gorgeously designed volumes oer an informal and yet detailed introduction to the most prominent gures of Arab art. The collection is characterized by medium-size books, each one dedicated to a single artist, richly illustrated, and rigorously documented. The publications, with editions in English and Arabic, are launched two by two seasonally, in spring and fall, in a sophisticated cardboard slipcase. Each slipcase presents a Saudi along with a non-Saudi artist. The content of the series is developed by Misk Art Institute in collaboration with renowned authors specializing in Arab art and under the curatorship of Mona Khazindar, former general director of the Institut du monde arabe in Paris.

Fahad Hajailan (1957–2018) is a Saudi ne artist. He is one of the most prominent artists in the contemporary Saudi ne arts scene and a founding member of the Riyadh Fine Art Group. Amina Agueznay (1963–) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, where she currently lives and works. Since 1999, when she exhibited her work at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, Agueznay has regularly shown in contemporary art exhibitions in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, New York, Paris, Algiers, Lille, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, and Berlin, among others.

Art historian Mona Khazindar is an expert in modern and contemporary Arab visual arts. She is the former director general of the Institut du monde arabe, curator of a number of important exhibitions, and author of several publications. Misk Art Institute is Saudi Arabia's leading non-profit cultural organization that empowers local artists through an interconnected ecosystem of support, expertise, and education.

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128 pages, 70 color illustrations, 6½ x 9½" cardboard slipcase with two flexicover volumes • ENG 9788891833068 / ARA 9788891834980 $60.00 USD, $80.00 CAD EARLY RELEASE: June 21, 2022 Rights: World English

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