"Council of Thought and Knowledge" He visits the Louvre Abu Dhabi and holds a symposium on art and culture
Abu Dhabi, April 16 / WAM / Sheikha Dr. Shamma bint Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan Cultural and Educational Institutions, visited…
Accompanied by a number of interested society women, visual artists, and members of the Council of Thought and Knowledge, she attended the “Picasso: Visualizing the Form” exhibition held at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Sheikha Dr. Shamma and Sheikha Hamda bint Saeed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, accompanied by council members, toured the museum’s corridors, during which they viewed a number of artistic and cultural works and exhibits. In a scene that reflects the deep interaction with the cultural and human juxtaposition that the museum provides between the world’s cultures and their diverse creative experiences.
During the visit, a symposium was held entitled “Human Faces in the Mirrors of Art,” in an initiative that went out of the ordinary and moved the cultural discussion from its traditional framework to an open visual and humanitarian space.
Sheikha Shamma bint Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan confirmed that this cultural edifice represents a sophisticated space for raising awareness through history and art, and said: On this tour, I sensed a deep state of similarity between human civilizations, despite the differences in their cultural products and artistic expressions, which confirms that man in his essence is one, and that creativity has always been one of his finest languages in expressing himself and his existence.
She pointed to the history of the Emirati burqa, its development and transmission across civilizations, and the fact that it is sometimes made in a golden form, stressing that art should not be viewed as an aesthetic luxury, but rather as a profound human necessity. Because it forms a mirror in which a person sees himself, with all the questions, anxiety, pain, and hope he stores.
She pointed out that in moments of major crises, a person may be unable to express directly, so he resorts to what she described as “loud silence,” where drawing, color, or sculpture become an alternative language that gives form to suffering and turns the silent emotional experience into a shared human discourse.
The symposium was moderated by the media and visual artist Hend Khalifat, who presented a reading of Pablo Picasso’s philosophy of art, reviewing the stages of his artistic experience and its transformations, and showing how he was able to move between multiple schools and styles without losing his expressive uniqueness.
The symposium witnessed various intellectual and artistic interventions, where Sheikha Shamma referred to the painting “Guernica” as one of the truest manifestations of art’s ability to express human rupture under the weight of violence, stressing that art not only tells us who we are, but also reveals to us what we can become in the harshest circumstances, and gives us a deeper ability to understand and empathize.
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