At this year’s Abu Dhabi Art, Meem Gallery will exhibit two major works by modern Middle Eastern masters Dia Al-Azzawi and Parviz Tanavoli. Al-Azzawi’s mural-sized painting Elegy To My Trapped City (2011) represents the decades of warfare and hardship endured by Baghdad and its people. Comprised of haunting composite monochrome forms, this work also pays homage to Al-Bayati’s poem of the same title. Tanavoli’s aluminium Big Heech (1973) is part of the fair’s ‘Beyond’ series. The work, which is an outdoor, installation piece, is one of the few heech sculptures constructed out of metal.