Mehdi Moutashar French-Iraqi, b. 1943
Deux carrés en mouvement / Two Squares in motion, 1982
Painted wood and painted aluminium
77 x 72 cm
30 1/4 x 28 3/8 in
30 1/4 x 28 3/8 in
Courtesy of the Artist and Lawrie Shabibi
Mehdi Moutashar’s art lies at the confluence of two artistic traditions, the western heritage of geometric abstraction and the Islamic aesthetic tradition of geometrical order and lines. In his wall-based...
Mehdi Moutashar’s art lies at the confluence of two artistic traditions, the western heritage of geometric abstraction and the Islamic aesthetic tradition of geometrical order and lines.
In his wall-based works, Moutashar combines rectangles and squares made from steel, wood and elastic, endlessly configuring and reconfiguring them into energetic geometric compositions according to a set of rules of the artist’s devising. In all of these works the artist is equally concerned with the voids as with the solid parts, with light and obscurity, leaving the viewer to create their own imagined outlines.
In his wall-based works, Moutashar combines rectangles and squares made from steel, wood and elastic, endlessly configuring and reconfiguring them into energetic geometric compositions according to a set of rules of the artist’s devising. In all of these works the artist is equally concerned with the voids as with the solid parts, with light and obscurity, leaving the viewer to create their own imagined outlines.