In March 2009 Saatchi Online will be showing and selling the work of a selection of artists from the Middle East registered on Saatchi Online at the Al Bastakiya Art Fair (formerly the Creek Art Fair), the leading satellite art fair to Art Dubai. In March 2008, over 10,000 visitors visited the Creek Art Fair, hosted in 18 houses in Bastakia, Dubai's oldest standing district, where a range of gallery and privately curated exhibitions took place. The Al Bastakiya Art Fair 2009 (15-22 March) will also coincide with the Sharjah Biennnial 09.
Saatchi Online's selling show at the Al Bastakiya Art Fair follows our success in promoting and selling the work of Saatchi Online artists at the Zoo Art Fair in London in October 2007, at FORM London in February 2008, at PULSE New York in March 2008, at SCOPE Basel 2008 in June 2008 and at SCOPE London in October 2008.
The Saatchi Online artists invited to exhibit their work in Dubai are all from the Middle East and will be chosen from the site by Rebecca Wilson, Head of Development, Saatchi Online and by Ana Finel Honigman, a critic and curator who contributes regularly to Saatchi Online's magazine. The work of these artists will be promoted and sold at the fair on a non-commission basis; all money from sales will go directly to the artists. The list of the artists exhibiting at the fair will be announced in January 2009.
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