#DowntownDesign opens today as part of #DubaiDesignWeek — taking place 4–9 November 2025 at #DubaiDesignDistrict ✨
Don’t miss the chance to see the sculpture by #OlafBreuning, now installed in D3
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Tatintsian Gallery opening soon at Design District — more art coming soon ⭐️
Painted in luminous shades of blue and white, #ChrisOfili’s work evokes the spirit of Der Blaue Reiter, the early 20th-century German painting movement that sought to merge visual art with musical sensibilities.
‘Blue Riders Remix’, 2006. Acrylic/charcoal on canvas, 51 x 41 cm.
«I think it is the uptight conservative climate that got me going. They are a reaction to the façade of morality that hides the fanatical undercurrent that we are faced with today.» – #GeorgeCondo
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George Condo - Orgy Composition, 2008. Oil on canvas, 190,5 x 215,9 cm.
"I think the power of the mirror paintings come from the objectification of the viewer, and they also complicate the viewer’s subjectivity by means of the imagery cut into the many layers of painted dust." – #TonyMatelli
‘Family’, 2014. Enamel on mirror, 152 × 244 cm.
#ChuckClose’s ‘Lucas / Mosaic’, 2019 is currently on view in the Viewing Room — https://t.co/S5MvOEgkoq
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Glass smalti and ceramic combination, 220 × 182.9 × 3.2 cm. Courtesy Gary Tatintsian Gallery and the artist.
#mosaicart#portraiture#photorealism#contemporaryart
“I'm a representational painter but not a painter of appearances. I paint representational pictures of emotional situations.” – #HowardHodgkin
‘Undergrowth’, 1998–2003. Oil on wood, 200 x 242,9 cm.
Courtesy of Gary Tatintsian Gallery and the artist.
#contemporaryart#painting
“Most of my paintings come from a dream. It is like the feeling when you are traveling on a train without a destination, or in the early morning when you just wake.” – #NorbertSchwontkowski
Norbert Schwontkowski - Oberhausen, 2005. Oil on canvas, 150.5 x 150.5 cm.⠀
After relocating from London to Trinidad in 2005, #ChrisOfili remarked on the “strong presence” of night in his new surroundings, noting a luminous quality to the darkness due to Trinidad’s equatorial location.
‘Saint Lucian Blue Two’, 2006. Leather on cardboard, 278 x 200 cm.
«Perhaps because I loved animation since I was a child, when I draw a picture, I always think about how each element will move in the next instant.» – #KeiichiTanaami
‘Carp Climbing Waterfall’, 2017 by Keiichi Tanaami.
Courtesy of Gary Tatintsian Gallery and the artist.
#TalR is known for his bold use of color and playful imagery, creating art that blends geometric abstraction with a touch of avant-garde primitivism.
‘Melon’, 2005. Aluminum, 72 × 47.5 × 34 cm.
Courtesy Gary Tatintsian Gallery and the artist.
#contemporaryart
The elegantly detailed illusory of the trees in #AlbertOehlen’s Baumbilder (Tree Paintings) series is a complex fusion of two opposing pictorial practices - figurative and abstract.
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‘Untitled (Baum 44)’, 2015 by Albert Oehlen. Oil on dibond, 250 x 250 cm.
#abstractart
“The important thing is that a work has to look fresh, to be as original as possible. That means it has to have its own idea and psychology. I try to make it worth looking at, to turn it into a sensation.”
– #PeterSaul
‘Wall Street Suicide’, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 178×152 cm.