Installation view of Lawrie Shabibi’s booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2016.
In Hong Kong for the first time this year, Dubai gallery Lawrie Shabibi presents “Recentring Modernism,” featuring works by Farhad Ahrarnia and Shahpour Pouyan. The latter recalls through drawings a spectacular Shi’ite mausoleum in Iraq recently destroyed by ISIS; while Ahrarnia’s highly intricate works continue the artist’s exploration of traditional crafts through Khatam. A form of marquetry or mosaic comprising inlaid wood, camel bone, ivory, and metals, here they’re organized to resemble Kazimir Malevich’s geometric abstract paintings.
