Exhibition ends 3-month display of Emirati talent.

Abu Dhabi: After three months of art talks, lectures, workshops, live music, performance and events, the Emirati Expressions exhibition concluded on Thursday night in the capital.

The exhibition for the first time brought together Emirati artists from different generations and schools under one roof, and helped them interact with international artists and art lovers.

The initiative is led by Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) with a vision to change the way people look at modern and contemporary art.

At Gallery One in Emirates Palace, many artists, art lovers and children gathered to witness the final artscape of the exhibition.

The pioneer artist Abdul Kader Al Rayes told Gulf News that the event is "unusual in the world of arts and I think it is just the first right step on the way to rise and support fine arts."

For him, interacting with international art experts and museum directors was the most important thing in the exhibition.

The artist Dr Najat Makki, who supervised a workshop for children, considered such workshops very useful tools to expose the new generation to the beauty of art from an early age.

"Children visit the exhibition and create their own pieces with inspiration of what they have seen; it is a new method even in raising children."

As an artist, Dr Najat thinks the exhibition "allowed people to test our visionary works and we are in need of spreading this kind of culture to promote arts."

For an artist, the exhibition was a good start Jalal luqman also thinks. Luqman is from the second generation who witnessed the hard times and good times.

"I think the exhibition helps put the Emirati artist in an international level; the new artist will not find better than this event to start their careers," he said.

Artist: Preserving talent Jalaj Luqman offered to teach students art at schools to preserving their talent. "I suffered ... from art sessions at school when a teacher told me that [my] father paints for [me], but I was so upset that I told him I'm the one who is teaching my father painting and I survived," said Luqman. Luqman thinks the talent of many students dies in art sessions at schools due to lack of visionary education.

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