Untitled (89D06) (1989)

Shirazeh Houshiary

mixed media on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Mixed media, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Untitled; abstract design composed of a cross of stones(?), with four gold slabs at centre. 1988 Mixed media; framed. Signed and dated: "Shirazeh Houshiary/1988".

Dimensions:

75.8 x 57 cm

Accession Number:

1992,1003.142

Credit:

Presented by Shirazeh Houshiary through Contemporary Art Society, 1992

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by the artist to the Contemporary Art Society, 4 May 1989; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, June 1992

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London Shirazeh Houshiary

Houshiary has used crystalline forms with references to mercury and molten substances to evoke the transformation of matter into energy and light: "the medium of drawing is an alchemical vessel for the act of transmutation into another substance". The sculptures of 1989 to which the series of drawn works are related incorporate copper, coal, crystal quartz and molten solder and bear titles like 'Heat', 'The Well of Molten Metal', 'The Pole of Sphere' and 'Difference of Light'.

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