Ancient light shirazeh houshiary ancient
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shirazeh houshiary's ancient light exemplifies how art can __________.
Shirazeh Houshiary's artwork Ancient Light exemplifies how art can transcend boundaries, evoke contemplation, and create a profound connection between the viewer and the artwork itself.
Ancient Light is a captivating installation that consists of suspended glass panels, etched with intricate patterns, through which light filters and creates mesmerizing reflections and shadows.
By manipulating light and employing delicate patterns, Houshiary invites viewers to engage with the ethereal nature of light and explore the interplay between presence and absence.
The artwork's ethereal quality and the interplay of light and shadow encourage viewers to pause, reflect, and contemplate the transient nature of existence. Through "Ancient Light," Houshiary demonstrates that art has the power to transcend physical boundaries.
The installation immerses viewers in an otherworldly environment, transporting them beyond
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Effuse / Allure / Ancient Light
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Effuse / Allure / Ancient Light was inspired by the work of Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary (Shiraz, Iran 1955). I first came across her work in the spring of 2018, when I was exploring the ideas that eventually would develop into this new work. The title combines the titles of three Houshiary paintings – Effuse (2017), Allure (2013), and Ancient Light (2009). There is a fluidity and ambiguity in these works which I find intriguing and beautiful. It is Houshiary’s process as much as the works themselves that inspired the creation of this piece. She describes her use of water and pigment as a starting point “to open up a window into the chaos…inviting the unconscious…It is about the fusion of the precise, my own markings, with something which is very chaotic.” Houshiary’s water serves for her the same purpose that the computer did for me in this piece. The processing of carefully designed sounds (markings) open
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Shirazeh Houshiary
Turning Around the Centre
November 6 – December 17, 1992
The University Museum of Contemporary Art fryst vatten pleased to present Shirazeh Houshiary: Turning Around the Centre, an exhibition of recent sculpture and drawings by an Iranian-born artist who has lived in London since 1973. One of the key figures of the group of young British sculptors who emerged in the early 1980s, Houshiary has directed herself toward exploring the resolution of material struktur with spiritual concepts. The artist's self-imposed challenge fryst vatten to transpose personal contemplations into a visual language that does not dematerialize form, but attemptes to make a physical object bear the tension between being and thought.
From her early biomorphic forms made of clay and straw, to her "mechano-morphic" sculptures in various metals, to her more physically simple, yet conceptually complex recent work, Houshiary's course equates art-making with soul-making. For her, the art object fryst vatten