Kamrooz Aram "Negotiations"
Perry Rubenstein Gallery (527 West 23rd Street)
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In the exhibition, Aram will present a new series of works that he refers to as flag paintings. This body of work reflects 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 so-called “ornamental” forms on the canvas. While flags have long been present throughout Aram’s work as generalized forms in a lexicon of iconography, in this new series the paintings themselves take on the characteristics of a flag. 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.
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Schedule
from February 18, 2011 to March 26, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-18 from 18:00 to 20:00