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The BEIRUT ART FAIR annual international contemporary art fair will be held for the third time from July 5 to July 8, 2012 in Beirut, at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL), with the participation of 43 galleries from the Middle East, Europe and North Africa.

There were only 25 exhibitors last year, but the event attracted more than 10,000 visitors - collectors, journalists, artists, amateurs and professionals. In the frames of BEIRUT ART FAIR you can get acquainted not only with the works of professionals in the Arab region, from Morocco to Indonesia, but also with objects of street art - comics and videos, sculptures and installations.

Professionals from the art world, collectors and critics, will be able to exchange views on contemporary art through a series of lectures and round tables, confirming the role of Beirut as the cultural capital of the Arab world.

At BEIRUT ART FAIR you can see all aspects of plastic art - painting, graphics, sculpture. Among the participants are art galleries Agial (Lebanon), Emmagoss (Lebanon), Galerie Janine Rubeiz (Lebanon), ATHR Gallery (Saudi Arabia) Al Motharaf (Saudi Arabia), Espace Kettaneh Kunigk (Lebanon / Germany). New European galleries from France, Belgium, Spain also joined the fair. Among the participants there are representatives of South America.

The extraordinary popularity of the BEIRUT ART FAIR program testifies to the rapid prosperity and diversity of modern art trends in the Arab world. This year the fair is held with the support of cultural institutions and under the auspices of the Institute of the Arab World.

Anna Sidorova