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Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, 2017, Installation view Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Photo: Peter Cox. Image courtesy Van Abbemuseum.
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Rasheed Araeen, Opus F3, 2014. courtesy the artist
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Rasheed Araeen, Paki Bastard (Portrait of an Artist as a Black Person), 1977. courtesy the artist documentation from performance
Exhibition
Rasheed Araeen. A Retrospective
19 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Gateshead Quays
- South Shore Road
- Gateshead
- NE8 3BA
- United Kingdom
In Autumn 2018, BALTIC will stage Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work, spanning more than 60 years.
About
The exhibition, staged across BALTIC's Level 3 and Level 2 galleries, presents a body of work that has had a profound influence on generations of artists, writers and thinkers.
The exhibition is structured across five chapters: from the artist’s early experiments in painting in Karachi in the 1950s and early 60s, his geometric structures produced after his arrival in London in 1964, key pieces from the 70s and 80s following Araeen’s political awakening, his nine panel cruciform works from the 80s and 90s and a selection of his new geometric paintings and wall structures.
Alongside this, materials relating to Araeen’s writing, editorial and curatorial projects are presented as part of an expanded artistic practice that in its scope, continues to challenge the formal, ideological and political assumptions of Eurocentric modernism.
A Retrospective was first shown at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and is curated by Nick Aikens.
About the artist
