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Rasheed Araeen, Purple Diamond, 2022, Acrylic on wood 75 x 69 x 15 cm 29 1/2 x 27 1/8 x 5 7/8 in Signed, dated and numbered from an edition of 5
Exhibition
Rasheed Araeen. Structures
7 Jul 2023 – 4 Aug 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 35 Bury St
- St. James's
- London
England - SW1Y 6AU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 8, 9, 14, 19, 22, 38
- Tube: Green Park
About
From 7 July - 5 August we will be exhibiting Rasheed Araeen's iconic geometric structures at the gallery in Bury Street. This exhibition compliment's our show of Rasheed's figurative work at Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street (30 June - 15 July).
In these works, geometric structures in which vertical and horizontal lines are held together by a network of diagonals (like the bracing struts used to strengthen latticed engineering constructions) play on the links between Eastern and Western thought and the frameworks of social institutions and aesthetics. The first incarnations of these were created in London in the late 1960s, and have occupied the Artist throughout his career.
Unlike the mid-century miniamlist artists from the US, Rasheed has always used colour in this works, arguing that colour is what helps makes the world a beautiful place.
The exhibition also celebrates Rasheed's monumental installation of Zero to Infinity, at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of their UNIQLO Tate Play series, from 22 July - 30 August 2023.
