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Great OccasionLiverpool 2008 provides a prestige occasion to show case PAX Art Fair. Thanks to this rare occasion, The Planet Art eXchange Art Fair (PAX Show) presents a unique opportunity to meet the UK most discerning collectors of fine art. The Fair is presented and positioned to become a major event in the event calendars of the European Capital of Culture of the year, an occasion when visitors from across the UK, Europe region and beyond join the Leaverpudians to enjoy and appreciate a unique assembly of Contemporary Art from around the Arab world. With exhibits ranging in price up to US$10,000 , the Fair is designed to be affordable, appealing to both the general public as well as the affluent and acquisitive purchaser.
With a high number of exhibitors from across the Arab world, the Fair will not only seek to attract buyers from across the UK, but also from Europe.
Planet Art eXchange is assembling a team of highly experienced experts in the field of art fairs with an established record of presenting high profile events in Europe. The team will oversee the event with the assistance of an high-powered Advisory Committee, who will ensure that specialist dealers and and well known galleries from the Arab world will be invited to exhibit. This will underline the intention of the organisers in their commitment to see the Fair serves the interests of the region and becomes a standard of excellence for art coming from less known provenance.
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The Arab Art ThemeWestern viewers have considered non-western art in general to be a curiosity or quite separate from western civilization, ignoring centuries of cross-cultural influences. Arab art has been, and still is, seen from an anthropological, archaeological or purely aesthetic perspective.
Contemporary Arab art remains one of the least visible in Britain despite recent shifts in the reception and representation of non-Western arts.
The most familiar representations of Arab culture in Britain is linked to Islamic art, mostly from the 13th century. The perspectives that contemporary Arab art brings to bear are all the more important today.
This is in the context of the existence of 500,000 strong British-Arab communities, and even more substantial in the Arab diaspora in Europe and elsewhere, and the centrality of the Arab region in a global world.
Recent political turmoil has isolated Arab communities and cast doubt over their characters and values. In the absence of any direct experience of contemporary Arab cultures, the British public is unable to make up its mind on the basis of direct
experience. The uncertainty cast over the possibility of harmonious co-existence within a multicultural Britain is unsettling to all.
The focus of British cultural establishments on ancient Islamic art only serves to reinforce perceptions of a spent cultural force. It also ignores the multiple dimensions of Arab cultures outside the Islamic context.
The showcase of the Arab contemporary art in the European capital of culture hopes to highlight its contribution to modern art
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