Farhad Ahrarnia
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Farhad Ahrarnia : A Dish Fit for the Gods
Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present A Dish Fit for the Gods by Farhad Ahrarnia, his first solo at the gallery. A Dish Fit for the Gods juxtaposes ancient imagery, 20th-century modernism, hand-embroidered textiles depicting archival images of actors, spies and authors, metalwork and a new series of Khatam (Persian micro-mosaic) works.
In the 20th century, the fever of Egypt worked its way into the arts, theatre and dance, architecture and literature, and the development of modernist projects. Ahrarnia explores the aesthetic outcome of these parallel sensibilities, wherein high modernism converges and entangles with the ancient, mythical and exotic.
Ahrarnia's new pictorial works are in two groups: large-scale images of dancers from the 1920s and 30s, dressed "Egyptian style" embroidered with patterns ...
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Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present A Dish Fit for the Gods by Farhad Ahrarnia, his first solo at the gallery. A Dish Fit for the Gods juxtaposes ancient imagery, 20th-century modernism, hand-embroidered textiles depicting archival images of actors, spies and authors, metalwork and a new series of Khatam (Persian micro-mosaic) works.
In the 20th century, the fever of Egypt worked its way into the arts, theatre and dance, architecture and literature, and the development of modernist projects. Ahrarnia explores the aesthetic outcome of these parallel sensibilities, wherein high modernism converges and entangles with the ancient, mythical and exotic.
Ahrarnia's new pictorial works are in two groups: large-scale images of dancers from the 1920s and 30s, dressed "Egyptian style" embroidered with patterns ...