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Untitled (89D02) (1988)

Shirazeh Houshiary

mixed media on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

© Shirazeh Houshiary. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024 Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Mixed media, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Untitled; abstract design composed of a circle above an upright structure, a diamond shape below. Dated: "1988" and inscribed: "Shirazeh Houshiary".

Dimensions:

75.7 x 56.7 cm

Accession Number:

1992,1003.140

Credit:

Presented by Contemporary Art Society, 1992

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Lisson Gallery by Adrian Ward-Jackson (1950-1991) for the Contemporary Art Society, 4 May 1989; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, June 1992

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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