ART DUBAIDISCOVERY TOURS

AGES 8-12

Welcome to Art Dubai! Start your exploration through the fair with this Discovery Tour. The gallery halls are filled with artworks by artists from around the world. Enjoy looking, talking, drawing, writing and discovering together.

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1. Olya Kroytor, Situation #15, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Artwin Galler2. Walid Siti, The Tower, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Galeri Zilberman3. Masood Kamandy, The System at War with itself, 2013, Courtesy of the Artist and East Wing4. Issay Rodriguez, Soft Ignorance (Part Of In Between The Lines), 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and 98B5. Jayson Oliveria, Numerologists, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Post Gallery6. George and Ilya Pusenkoff, The Color of a Shadow, 2015 Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Brigitte Schenk

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Artist Olya Kroytor is only 29 years old. She was born in Moscow. Olya creates paper collages and wooden objects that combine graphic shapes, lines and cutout images from Russian newspapers as well as American comics. Here you see a collage of well-known chracters found in comic books, all mixed up together.

If you were a comic book character, what would you look like? Would you have any special powers? Draw your comic book character below.

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Can you find the 5 real ducks hidden in the collage of cartoons? You have 20 seconds!

Walid Siti uses wooden sticks in his artwork to construct his own version of the mythical Tower of Babel in the land of Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq). The myth says that the tower reached up very high in the sky, much like the modern skyscrapers of today.

What would a modern day Tower of Babel look like?

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Can you recognise these city skylines?

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Masood Kamandy photographs easily recognisable, everyday objects and manipulates them to create his own designs and objects.

Draw the shoes you are wearing without looking at the paper... Don’t peek!

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Information is available everywhere, on the internet, newspapers, books and TV. Issay Rodriguez takes a step back to think about today’s reality of knowledge and information through observations in her artwork.

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What is the last book you read? What is your favourite book?

Draw a cover for this book

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Throughout history, artists have applied mathematical concepts to their artworks. Picasso used geometry in his paintings while M.C. Escher created drawings of impossible structures using mathematical knowledge.

Does the object have 3 bars or 4? What is the correct answer?

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Draw the letter ‘Z’ and make it appear 3-dimensional. Draw it again and again in different angles and layers. Describe the landscape that you see.

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This artwork is an interactive installation that plays with shadows. A shadow is formed when an object or person blocks light from reaching the area behind it. The patch where light cannot reach is called a shadow. The size of the shadow depends on the angle at which the light is falling on the object.

Trace your entire shadow with your eyes. Trace your entire shadow with your right elbow. Trace your entire shadow with your left knee. Trace your entire shadow with your whole body... dance!

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These animals have lost their shadow! Help them find their shadows.

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KEY WORDS

Manipulate: To change something to look different from what it really is.

Scyscraper: A very tall building with many floors. Like Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which holds the record for tallest building in the world.

Skyline: The outline of buildings and structures seen against the sky.

Interactive: Allowing action between people, groups and things.

Shadow: A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Collage: A piece of art made by sticking different images and materials such as photographs and newspaper clippings on to a new surface.

Observation: The action or proecss of closely watching or monitoring something or someone.

Impossible object: A type of optical illusion in which a 2-dimensional object appears in a 3-di-mensional form.

Optical illusion: A visually deceiving image, differ-ent from reality

Manipulate: To change something to look different from what it really is.