Fahrelnissa Zeid, Tate Modern, London, UK 12 Jun 2017
The Arena of the Sun, 1954, and Untitlded, 1950,s - Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid: the UK’s first retrospective of a pioneering artist best known for her large-scale colourful canvases, fusing European approaches to abstract art with Byzantine, Islamic and Persian influences. The exhibition is at Tate Modern from 13 June – 8 October 2017.
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Highlights include: My Hell 1951 a key abstract work over five metres wide. This will be shown alongside other important works which were last displayed in London over 60 years ago including The Octopus of Triton 1953. These works represent the artist at the height of her career as well as the captivating East-West dialogue in her work Two works from Zeid’s first solo exhibition held in her own apartment in Istanbul in the mid-1940s which are presented together in public together for the first time: Three Ways of Living (War) 1943 and Three Moments in a Day and a Life 1944 A back-lit selection of Zeid’s paléokrystalos works – resin sculptures evocative of stained-glass windows in which painted animal bones are suspended.
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