The New Arabesque
Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
Nature Morte is pleased to present The New Arabesque, Kamrooz Aram’s
first solo exhibition in India.
Kamrooz Aram’s practice interrogates the overlapping trajectories of ornamental patterning and geometric abstraction, obviating any simple dichotomies of East and West or Fine and Applied Arts, while confounding our preconceived receptions of both Modernism and stylistic affinities.
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New Arabesque for Unfashionable Optimism, 2020. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 66 x 56 inches / 167.6 x 142.2 cm
Arabesque Composition (Haiku), 2019. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 60 x 54 in / 152.4 x 137.2 cm
Orvieto, 2019. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 78 x 56 in / 198.1 x 142.2 cm
Midnight Arabesque, 2020. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 79 1/4 x 57 1/4 in / 201.3 x 145.4 cm
New Arabesque in Red, Black and White, 2020. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 78 x 76 in / 198.1 x 193 cm
Ornamental Sequence in Blue, 2019. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 78 x 76 in / 198.1 x 193 cm
Bashful Seyed, 2020. Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen. 84 x 84 in / 213.4 x 213.4 cm
Composition with Ancient Objects, 2020. Oil, colored pencil, and printed matter on linen.
20 x 16 in / 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Composition with Vessel in Form of an Animal, 2020. Printed matter and paper on linen. 72 3/4 x 60 1/4 in / 184.8 x 153 cm
Nature Morte, 2020. Printed matter on paper. 38 7/8 x 25 7/8 in / 98.6 x 65.7 cm
Open/Close, 2020. Printed matter, paper and pencil on linen. 23 3/4 x 29 3/8 in / 60.3 x 74.6 cm
Object Arabesque, 2020. Ceramic and brass object, linen on wood, painted wood, brass.
Ceramic object: 17 x 6 inches
Pedestal: 32 ½ x 32 ½ x 16”
