Sabrina Amrani is pleased to announce her first participation at ARCOmadrid with WaqasKhan and Timothy Hyunsoo Lee presentation in the official section, in the single/Duo programme focusing on make these artists’ works known before a great audirence.
This duo presentation for ARCO 2015 presenting two emerging artists represents very different practices, which are united minimalist conceptions rooted in personal experiences alluding to not only the long history of Western minimalist art but all over the world along. Pakistani artist WaqasKhan, born in 1982 and SouthKorean-American artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, born in1990, who are recognized by their meticulous geometric practices, explore the limits of their arts presenting largeformat works.
Within this selection for the stand, the gallery presents the most recent WaqasKhan’s work, "The Breath of the Compassionate IV", further reflecting his recent concerns about the movement and increasing at the same time the experience of interaction between the public in their work.
"Haesik and Dalsun", a large format diptych of Timothy Hyunsoo Lee which can be seen in the exhibition, is inspired by the Korean fable of ancestral and animistic nature on the birth of the Sun and the Moon, by introducing larger volumes and even a more dynamic colour in his work.
WaqasKhan’s meticulous drawings, made with Rotring pens on wasli paper, which has a personal interpretation of the bardhakhat technique based on the miniaturists paintings of 16th century, they are the result of a long meditation and a huge and intense concentration. He gets a look towards the infinite through break scyclical at a space level, revealing at the same time a visual saturation and demanding a very high attention by the observers. These precision fields built extended concepts from spiritual practices of Islam, Hinduism.
Sufism, carried out in an almost abstract containment, and releasing all his potential risk and of an amazing fragility.
The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Devi Art Foundation in New Delhi, acquired the WaqasKhan work in 2014 through the Sabrina Amrani Gallery after he exhibited his individual exhibition titled "The Untitled Show". His next exhibition, JameelPrize 3 Exhibition, will be displayed at the SharjahMuseum of Islamic Civilization in March. In addition, he was selected for participating in the Dhaka Art Summit 2016.
The Timothy Hyunsoo Lee watercolors reinterpret his traumatic experiences with anxiety through repeated diamond cells alluding to his experience in neurobiology, and translating the biology field to the social field. The sensorial experience is expressed through visual culture by means of repetition, creating unique movements and shapes that deceived the observers gaze. Incorporating narrative elements in abstract surfaces, the Hyunsoo Lee practice of is essentially formal, but also experiential.
Timothy Hyunsoo Lee's most recent exhibitions include "Double-sided", an individual one at the Sabrina Amrani Gallery in October, 2014; the "La forme animale"collective exhibition at the Venise Cadre Gallery, Casablanca; and "Thejourney" in S. Diplon Ripley Center.
The Smith sonian Institution in Washington, D.C. will soon exhibit in "A Curios Blindness" at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, scheduled to kick off in April 2015.
The artist was given the first prize of the Emerging VSA Young ArtistProgram in 2014 sponsored and organized by The Kennedy Center and Volkswagen Group. He was also awarded the 3rd International Emerging Artist Award in 2014, with which he got his representation with Sabrina Amrani.
Sabrina Amrani Gallery in ARCOmadrid
Hall 9 - Stand 9F02
February 26 - Machr 1 2015
Feria de Madrid-Ifema
AV. Parthenon, 5
28042 Madrid
Parallel to ARCO, Sabrina Amrani presents the De profundis exhibition by Joel Andriano Mearisoa artist Madagascar in his space, until March28. The exhibition is inspired by the homonym letter of Oscar Wilde and invites the visitors to make a journey of light to the darkness, a tale of love and desperation.
Sabrina Amrani will celebrate in her gallery a type of ARCOGalleryBreakfast, on February 27 at 10:00 am.
LastIllusions 09, 2015. Textile and wood. 27 x 19 x 7 cm. each. Part of De profundis by Joel Andriano Mearisoa
De Profundis in Sabrina Amrani
Schedule exhibition opening
From Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturdays, from 11:00 am to 14.30 h.
ARCO Gallery Breatfast at Sabrina Amrani Gallery
Friday, February 27 2015, from 10:00 to 14.30 h
Sabrina Amrani Gallery
Wood Street, 23
28004 Madrid
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