Dubai art galleries rejected by Art Dubai

Art gallery house owners in metropolis United Nations agency haven't been granted a stand at Art metropolis 2009 have criticised the art honest for being "unsupportive" and questioned its stress on international galleries.

Their disappointment was expressed at a conference at The Majlis Gallery in Bastakiya, Bur metropolis last month.

Owner of the Majlis Alison Collins said: "We have applied to be a part of Art metropolis for 3 years and been turned down. it has been rather unsupportive".

The general manager of Opera Gallery metropolis, that has simply opened at metropolis International monetary Centre (DIFC), Bertrand Epaud agreed: "We applied and that we were turned down. i used to be extremely thwarted."

"We square measure those that have endowed cash, time and trust that this region includes a future in terms of art and that we have come back here, taken the danger however been rejected - this is often one thing i do not perceive."

"We've been transfer major artworks from round the world; these same artworks are within the alternative galleries [accepted from international markets] that haven't spent a penny," he complained, adding that he wouldn't attend Art metropolis, which is able to be control from March 18-21 2009 at Madinat Jumeirah.

Art metropolis education and project manager Laura Trelford defended the honest, explaining that the choice method was compact by area constraints and a necessity to "bring a global art community to visualize what's happening in Dubai".

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Trelford said: "We have many applications from galleries internationally, and if we tend to simply had native galleries described then we tend to would not get the international audience that we tend to do. it'd be not possible to possess illustration from each gallery in metropolis.

"It's concerning transfer artists and galleries from across the globe along here and responding to native galleries additionally. that is why we've got the Art Bus, that brings individuals from the honest to the Creek, and that we have tours and confirm we've got events that square measure separate to the art honest itself," aforesaid Trelford.