Thank you for your cooperation

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde's latest exhibition, Thank You for Your Cooperation, applies bold colors and words to a urban facade. Par for the course with Turkish artist duo :mentalKLINIK, who have been known to make resourceful and novel use of modern materials. The works on glass are especially striking.

Abdelkader Benchamma and Jessica Mein exhibition at GIVDE

Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde has another double-barreled exhibition this month, with works by Jessica Mein and Abdelkader Benchamma constituting the Chromophobia exhibition.

Mein employs an interesting use of perforation in her colorful works, resulting the emergence of complex textures on close-up viewing. Some of her equally colorful video work is on display as well. They appear to be microcosmic glimpses of a larger work extending beyond their frames.

Benchamma's portion of the exhibition, on the other hand, consists of monochrome etchings. The theme was difficult to figure out, but they often involve some object or activity suspended in the air over a seemingly real or staged (on a scaffolding frame) landscape.

Fred Eerdekens and Mohammed Kazem at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde

If you saw a Fred Eerdekens installation at Art Dubai this year, and want to see more, you still have a couple of days to view his poetic and playful shadow art at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Al Serkal Avenue.

There, you will also find some very interesting works by Mohammed Kazem, my favorite of which are Scale (below) and Nurses.