Negotiations

Kamrooz Aram

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Negotiations
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
February 18 - March 26, 2011



The "flag paintings" reflect Aram’s ongoing interest in nationalist, religious and artistic ideologies. Using patterns derived from traditional Persian art forms, such as carpets, Aram works through a process of building, destroying and rebuilding these ornamental forms on the canvas. Aram has introduced geometric forms that at once reference flag design as well as geometric abstraction, a reference to Modernist ideology and its historical conflict with ornamentation. As a result of this process, the paintings question the notion of pattern as inherently decorative, as geometry and ornamentation struggle for domination of the final image.

In the series of collages, 7,000 Years, the artist dissects and reconstructs pages from mid-century exhibition catalogues of Iranian art objects. The compositions in this series often evoke the Modernist reverence for geometry, bringing into question the complicated relationship between Modernism and non-Western art.



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Negotiations
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
February 18 - March 26, 2011

The "flag paintings" reflect Aram’s ongoing interest in nationalist, religious and artistic ideologies. Using patterns derived from traditional Persian art forms, such as carpets, Aram works through a process of building, destroying and rebuilding these ornamental forms on the canvas. Aram has introduced geometric forms that at once reference flag design as well as geometric abstraction, a reference to Modernist ideology and its historical conflict with ornamentation. As a result of this process, the paintings question the notion of pattern as inherently decorative, as geometry and ornamentation struggle for domination of the final image.

In the series of collages, 7,000 Years, the artist dissects and reconstructs pages from mid-century exhibition catalogues of Iranian art objects. The compositions in this series often evoke the Modernist reverence for geometry, bringing into question the complicated relationship between Modernism and non-Western art.