abstract expressionism
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calligraphy
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collective psyche
contemporary art
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cultural synthesis
delicate scale
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Dubuffet
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human contact
intimate beauty
Klee
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manuscripts
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Middle Eastern influences
miniatures
muted colours
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painted plaster
palimpsests
Persian
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Rothko
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visual poetry
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Product details
- ISBN 9780863564864
- Weight: 1222g
- Dimensions: 228 x 286mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Malileh Afnan's work appears 'as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers from childhood, is mirrored in her love for intimate scale and the refined beauty of muted colour'. Calligraphy plays an important role: images appear that suggest the written word. Works on paper and tablets of painted plaster are reminiscent of ancient, almost obliterated texts, and like palimpsests, retain only some vestige of literal meaning and an impression of human contact. Afnan has absorbed both Middle Eastern and Western influences. She has looked towards such artists as Pollock, Rothko, Dubuffet and Klee, and shares an affinity with the American artist Mark Tobey, who helped arrange the first European exhibition of her work in 1971.
About the artist: Malileh Afnan obtained an MA in Fine Arts from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, in 1962. She has had twelve solo exhibitions and twenty-five group exhibitions around the world, and two retrospectives at England & Co., London, 2000 and 2006. Her work is represented in the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris and in the British Museum in London, where in 2006 she was included in the exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East. Afnan most recently exhibited at the Martin Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin (Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Modernity & Islam). About the editor: Rose Issa is a freelance curator, specialised in contemporary visual arts and films from the Arab world and Iran. Also by the same editor: Chant Avedissian: Cairo Stencils Saqi, 978-0-86356-080-4 Shadi Ghadirian Saqi, 978-0-86356-638-7
