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Saloua Raouda Choucair

17.April - 20.October 2013
Eingabedatum: 18.04.2013

Saloua Raouda Choucair

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Tate Modern, Level 4
17 April – 20 October 2013 (Press view: 16 April 2013)
Open every day from 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday

Tate Modern will present the world's first major museum exhibition of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair (born 1916). Comprising over 120 works, many of which have never been seen before and are being exhibited for the first time, this exhibition will bring together paintings, sculptures and other objects made by the artist over six decades, reflecting her interests in science, mathematics and Islamic art and poetry. In Choucair's 97th year, this retrospective will celebrate her extraordinary body of work and her contribution to international modernism.

Choucair is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East and is now becoming recognised as an important figure in the history of global modernism. A rare female voice in the Beirut art scene from the 1940s onwards, her work combines elements of western abstraction with Islamic aesthetics. It is characterised by an experimental approach to materials alongside an elegant use of modular forms, lines and curves drawn from the traditions of Islamic design.

The artist often created works in discrete series, a number of which will be included in the exhibition. These include her ‘interforms’, such as Sculpture with One Thousand Pieces 1966-1968, which comprise of seemingly simple cubes or blocks which house intricately carved and highly complex internal forms.

 Works known as ‘duals,’ consisting of two carefully interlocking parts and a selection of her modular ‘poems’ series will also be on display. These works are made from individual pieces that stack together in a flexible way, much like the stanzas of Arabic poetry. Constantly challenging the form, Chouair thought of many of her works as being in constant flux: structures to be altered by the viewer, the elements or the artist’s own additions and subtractions over time. Like a Mobius strip her work is endlessly various, returning to specific themes but never with the same attributes or form.

The exhibition is co-curated by Jessica Morgan, The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art and Ann Coxon. It will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essays by Kirsten Scheid of American University Beirut, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, a writer and critic based in Beirut and the curators of the exhibition, produced by Tate Publishing.







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