Khaled Al Saai, from the exhibition Euphrates-Loire Bridge, Angers (France), 2019
The Fundación Tres Culturas will offer 14 tuition grants for the course "The visual arts in the current Arab world" based on the educational collaboration agreement that we have in process with the UNIA. These grants are part of the general call for grants for UNIA summer courses 2021. The deadline for grant applications is 6 September.
More information on grants can be found at the end of the text.
The main objective of this course is to offer a precise knowledge of the most relevant aspects of contemporary Arab artistic production, which has scarcely had a place in the Spanish academic world, despite its social, intellectual and economic transcendence.
Since the mid-twentieth century, the visual arts in Arab and Islamic countries have achieved great development and a notable international projection, which has only increased throughout the twenty-first century, so that these arts deserve to be duly recognised and analysed both for their intrinsic cultural and aesthetic values and for their contribution to global culture. The proliferation of art movements, galleries, fairs and art studios in these countries, with the recent significant boost given to the art world in the United Arab Emirates, has led to a growing interest in Arab art and artists by the art market and some academic circles in the Arab countries themselves, Spain has also joined in, as evidenced by the exhibitions and other activities organised in recent years by Casa Árabe in Madrid and Cordoba, the Fundación Tres Culturas in Seville, the Fundación Euro-Árabe in Granada and the Reina Sofía and Prado museums in Madrid.
This course, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of art history, Arab culture, anthropology and sociology, and at all those interested in contemporary art and present-day Arab societies, aims to reflect on the creative conditions, problems, aspirations and achievements of artists in the Arab world today, and on the specificity and conceptual and aesthetic characteristics of their works.
In order to study the rich panorama of the visual arts in the Arab world today, an excellent group of professors, researchers, art curators and artists from Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, the United States and Spain have been selected to give classes on the artistic avant-gardes of their respective countries and others in the region, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and the Arab states of the Gulf, as well as Iran, analysing the plastic work of prominent artists and schools that have built, and are building, modernity or attempts at modernisation in their respective societies.
The course also focuses on the decisive contribution of Arab women to the world of art and reflections on the contrast between tradition and modernity, on cultural identity and on the expression and practice of freedom that artistic activities provoke in societies that have suffered external aggression, totalitarian or unstable political systems and renovating movements of the importance of "pan-Arabism" and the so-called "Arab Spring".
The summer course The visual arts in today's Arab world will be held from 5 to 8 October 2021 in virtual mode only and will last 25 teaching hours.
Technical sheet:
From 5 to 8 October 2021
Virtual mode
25 teaching hours
100 places available
Fee: 60 euros.
The full programme, as well as the times of the presentations, can be consulted on the website: https://www.unia.es/oferta-academica/cursos-de-verano/oferta-cv/item/las-artes-plasticas-en-el-mundo-arabe-actual
Enrolment aid. This will only include exemption from the payment of the course registration fee, and does not cover the amount of the established fee for opening the file and issuing certificates (€8).
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS FOR SUMMER COURSES 2021
SCHOLARSHIPS
GRANT APPLICATION
Portuguese