“Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries” is an extensive exhibition curated by Nicholas Cullinan that investigates the histories and semantics of folding screens by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between East and West, processes of hybridization between different art forms and functions, collaborative relationships between designers and artists, and the emergence of newly created works.
As explained by Nicholas Cullinan, “Painting or sculpture? Art or furniture? Utilitarian or ornamental? Decorative, functional, architectural or theatrical? This innovative exhibition examines the many questions and paradoxes surrounding the unfolding history of the paravent. This history of the folding screen is one of cultural migration (from East to West), hybridisation and of what is concealed and revealed. As we shall explore, this history, and especially the way it manifests in the present, is one of liminal objects and of liminality itself; in the process collapsing the rigid distinctions and hierarchies between the different disciplines of art and architecture, decoration and design.”
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Kamrooz Aram was born in in Shiraz, Iran, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He received an MFA from Columbia University in and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in He has shown internationally and nationally, including solo exhibitions at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Green Art Gallery, Dubai; The Suburban, Chicago; LA><ART, Los Angeles; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams. Aram’s work has been shown in many group exhibitions, including Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, ; the Busan Biennale, ; Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, ; and the Prague Biennale I, Public collections that include his work are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; and M+, Hong Kong. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Courtesy of the artist and Green Art Gallery, Dubai
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Ancient Through Modern: A Collection of Uncertain Objects, Part 1,
Commissioned by the Abraaj Group Art Prize
Ancient Through Modern: A Collection of Uncertain Objects is a wall installation consisting of painting, ceramics, and collage arranged to echo the displays in popular museums such as the Louvre in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Taking cultural nostalgia as a subject, this work investigates how museums, and the objects displayed within them, serve a longing for mythical pasts and support claims of origin even as Modernism continues to be privileged as the high point of contemporary visual culture. Visual art, however, remains much attached to the conventions of European Modernism. The work blurs the distance between ancient and modern, manufactured and made, exposing the irrationality of the cultural value ascribed to material objects.
Curated by Nada Raza, the exhibition of commissioned works by the five winning artists (Abbas Akhavan, Kamrooz Aram, Bouchra Khalili, Basim Magdy and Anup Mathew Thomas) at Art Dubai (March 19 - 22, ) was titled Garden and Spring.
link: Abraaj Group Art Prize
Kamrooz Aram’s work disrupts the false opposition between ornament and abstraction, and challenges ornament’s relegation to discourses of criminality and excess. In his wide ranging exhibitions, he stages an encounter between the Euro-American avant-garde and non-western forms of abstraction, interrogating the boundaries between art, artifact, and modes of display. His lyrical paintings and arrangements break down the hierarchies of modernist aesthetics, asking that we rethink its categories and re-encounter these ideas and objects anew. Combining painting, sculpture, collage and exhibition design, he creates an interdependence between object and display, revealing the significance of design and architecture in affecting the interpretation of art.
Kamrooz Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recent exhibitions include: Elusive Ornament, Peter Blum Gallery, New York; Privacy, an Exhibition, The Arts Club of Chicago; Lives of Forms: Kamrooz Aram and Iman Issa, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium; The New Arabesque, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India; An Object, A Gesture, A Décor, FLAG Art Foundation, N
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