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Pearl Lam Galleries in Singapore is hosting “Crossfades and Drawn Forms” — a duo exhibition featuring Iranian artist Golnaz Fathi and Chinese artist Lan Zhenghui, running through November 11, 2018.
This exhibition showcases an unique juxtaposition of paintings, a series of light boxes and video projections.
“Transforming the gallery interior into an echo chamber of lines and interventions, the exhibiting works include paintings, a series of lightboxes, and a video projection. Reinterpreting classical forms, Fathi’s free abstractions of the written word coalesce with Lan’s monumental ink landscapes to form an undulating visual rhapsody. The spiritual and intuitive strokes central to the artists’ processes of creation unravel themselves upon closer scrutiny, juxtaposing introspection with expression,” the gallery says.
Golnaz Fathi was born in Tehran in 1972 and studied graphic design at Azad University in Tehran. She became fascinated by the expressive potential of traditional Persian calligraphic forms and achieved the highest level of perfection. She draws inspiration from the traditional exercise of “Shiah Mashgh” or “Black Practise,” which involves repetition of letters until the page is saturated with black ink.
“Making contemporary works after years of calligraphy training, Fathi’s every gesture on canvas is charged with liberating emotion. Her latest pen on canvas series is directed by her withdrawn state of consciousness, a collision of persistence and surprises as the quivering lines break free of Arabic script. In contrast, her untitled acrylic on canvas work is more controlled with the brushstrokes a graphic intersection of hand and heart becoming one. The lines stand out from the gray background, themselves forming a powerful melody that reverberates against ‘the sound of silence,’” says the gallery.
Fathi has received a number of awards, including the Best Woman Calligraphist in Ketabat Style in 1995 by the Iranian Society of Calligraphy in Tehran. Her works are in the permanent collections of many renowned international institutions.
“As the visionary Chinese counterpoint, Lan’s poised individualism is imbued in his splashes of black ink on Xuan paper, a trait unseen in the ancient Chinese tradition of ink painting. Guided by his profound consideration and emotion of ink, Lan’s deep-rooted interest in the medium sparked over 20 years of passionate research in the field; his experiments in scale and ink density catapulted ink painting to greater heights in the international arena,” says the gallery.
“Crossfades and Drawn Forms” runs through November 11, 2018, at Pearl Lam Galleries, 9 Lock Road, #03-22, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108937.
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