Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974–2014 The exhibition focuses on Monir’s sculptural and graphic work over a career of more than 40 years. While her artistic practice has also encompassed pictorial forms of painting and narrative composition, it is the artist´s distinctive approach to geometric abstraction that provides a compelling entry point to an oeuvre in which objective concepts of repetition and progression merge with the aesthetic traditions of Islamic architecture and decoration. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility presents works not publicly exhibited since the 1970s, revealing how the compositional principles of this period were later translated into larger-scale commissions, and into the more ambitiously scaled mirror sculptures based on the concept of the geometric “families” which the artist has produced in the last decade, including the first of a new series of stainless steel sculptures. A selection of previously unseen abstract compositions on paper produced by the artist between 1976 and 2014 point to the central role of drawing as a conceptual foundation for the artist’s sculptural practice, as well as being works of art in their own right. e-flux/announcements/monir-shahroudy-farmanfarmaian/
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