Category Archives: Iraqi contemporary art
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Rashad Selim Iraqi artist in London
Baghdad Pavement 2006 “I have a sense of devastation within me. The works I have deal with devastation. ” Rashad Selim “Art has to do with debris, breaking up, assymetry, loss of grammar. “ The layers of this collage include both old manuscripts which he has torn up and debris. Rashad is echoing the break […]
This entry was posted on October 10, 2007 and is filed under Iraqi contemporary art. -
Word into Art Artists of the Modern Middle East
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East at the British Museum explores the complexity of contemporary Middle Eastern culture from the perspective of the use of calligraphy and text.
This entry was posted on June 14, 2007 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Iraqi Art, Iraqi contemporary art, Uncategorized.