LONDON, July 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BE OPEN Art, an online art
gallery set up by BE OPEN think tank, a humanitarian initiative
founded by Austria-based
international businessperson and philanthropist Elena Baturina, is running a competition for
emerging artists, aimed to support those whose art best represents
their regional, cultural and ethnic identities – BE OPEN Regional
Art.
Every month of the 2rd quarter of 2024, works by 20
emerging artists from the countries of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq,
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen were posted at the online gallery for
the public to select the Regional Artist of the Month.
In April, young Iraqi painter Samar Alzaidy, was selected the
Regional Artist of the Month and became the first of the three
candidates for the Artist of the Region and the 500 euros prize. She studied at the Ceramics
Institute and has been part of a number of arts exhibitions
internationally. Experimenting with watercolors is an important
thing in Samar's creative work.
In May, the title passed on to Anahita Zabehi, an artist based
in Tehran; and in June to Bahargol
Ebrahimi, an Iranian painter as well.
The art committee headed by Aidan Salakhova, an
internationally acclaimed Azeri artist, sculptor and activist, has
chosen Samar Alzaidy the Artist of the Region for the Middle East. The artist will be offered a
grant of 500 euro from BE OPEN.
Founder of BE OPEN Elena Baturina selected her own favourite
among the young Middle Eastern artists: Sahar Alizadeh, a contemporary Iranian artist,
for the dreamlike shadow-filled paintings, full of dislocated and
deformed shapes that still tell suspenseful stories. Now based in
the UAE, Sahar was born in 1995 in Tehran, where she received a Bachelor in
Interior Architecture from Rasam Institute of Higher Education. She
was a participant of the London Art Biennale in 2021, and
represented the Islamic Republic of
Iran. She also took part in the Dubai Expo that same year.
The regional competition runs alongside the regular ongoing work
of BE OPEN Art, whose experts every month select 20 new artists for
the gallery, using online voting to name the Artist of the Month
and the Artist of the Year.
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