Sharjah Award for Plastic Art’s Critical Research

 

Well-established, Strategic, and Theoretical Research

Since its inception, Sharjah Award for Plastic Art’s Critical Research reflects the cultural importance criticism, which examines the artistic discourse. The Critical Research offers studies contain approaches, analyses, and objective readings from multiple directions. The later leaves the creative work in its historical context, geographical environment, and its philosophical projections as well. Based on historical and critical methods, the creative work is imposed by the artistic and contemporary intellectual tendencies. Hence, we regard this aspect within the orientations of Sharjah, has crystallised outputs across an international and cultural rivalry, discussing the Arab and global configuration issues, within detailed subjects that excite the new generation of Arab critics.

 

Eye on the Prize

Sharjah Award for Plastic Art’s Critical Research has a substantial presence in the Arab cultural circles, being the only Award that is solely focused on art and literary criticism. Since the beginning, it reflected distinctiveness as specific research, criticising a tangible discourse or written work.

The theoretical output appears in series of documented scientific research that is subjected to arbitration, and as a result; is capable of selecting the finest of works to eventually publishing them, the then result enhances the status of the investigation and critical research in the visual arts. Created in 2008, the Award was theorised through the theme "Leadership in the Arab Fine Arts." The objectives of the Award in communication with Arab researchers and critics who then publicise their findings and expand the attentive circle of the Arabic contemporary art experiments, by encouraging emerging talents and documenting and monitoring the process.  With the latter, the results intensifying the link between the community and the arts through the language of critique.  The Award's role in stimulating researchers from various Arab countries to look deeply into the various issues raised by the critical research. The selected choice of the jury will be printed and published for the public, as a direction to contribute to the Arabic Library with valuable resources that enrich the cultural awareness in the Arabic countries.