25 - 27 April, 2014
Booth 3C-28 Young

The Third Line is pleased to be participating for the first time at Art Brussels, exhibiting works by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Sahand Hesamiyan, and Sherin Guirguis. The artists featured explore the use of geometry, and its representation, in contemporary art.

Art Brussels has built up its reputation over the years and now occupies a position among the top five international art fairs. The Third Line is participating at the fair alongside a hundred and ninety leading international galleries.

The three artists selected investigate the formal and aesthetic characteristics of geometry, presented across multiple disciplines. Reducing representation to its most basic components such as lines, angles and shapes, and interpreting them through various media, each artist shares their own unique understanding and vision of the fundamentals of geometry.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian incorporates traditional Iranian reverse glass painting, mirror mosaics and principles of Islamic Geometry with a modern sensibility. Through wall based panels and free standing works, she presents both a detailed craft and contemporary abstraction that employs an interaction of surface texture, light and reflection, colour and form. In Monir’s work, the intricate craftwork moves beyond a mere exercise and explores interpretations in contemporary thought.

The works of Sahand Hesamiyan are primarily interactive and are clearly derived from the principles of Islamic architecture. Linking science and geometry to the metaphysical nature of sufi spirituality, Sahand references the construction philosophy of ancient Persian structural forms such as the dome, wherein the height and upward movement of the structure is a metaphor for the heavenly transcendence man reaches with enlightenment.

Sherin Guirguis’ work investigates the politics of ornamentation, engaging both formal and social concerns by juxtaposing the reductive Western language of minimalist aesthetics with that of Eastern Arabic ornamentation. Sherin examines post-colonial themes of political, cultural and social dogma and feminist activism within the framework of the Egyptian diaspora, both in the public and private spheres. By continuing her previous practice of hand cut works on paper, embedded with gold powder and gold leafing, Sherin uses architectural references such as doorways, windows, and arches to convey the significance of the site and the role it plays in establishing a radical ideology.

About The Third Line

The Third Line is a Dubai based art gallery that represents contemporary Middle Eastern artists locally, regionally and internationally. The Third Line also hosts non-profit, alternative programs to increase interest and dialogue in the region.

The Third Line also publishes books by associated artists from the region. Books published to date include Presence by photographer Lamya Gargash (2008), In Absentia by Tarek Al-Ghoussein (2009), Cosmic Geometry, an extensive monograph on Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Karen Marta (2011), and most recently the self-titled treatise Huda Lutfi about the artist’s Cairo based practice.

Represented artists include: Abbas Akhavan, Ala Ebtekar, Amir H. Fallah, Arwa Abouon, Babak Golkar, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Farhad Moshiri, Fouad Elkoury, Golnaz Fathi, Hassan Hajjaj, Hayv Kahraman, Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gargash, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Pouran Jinchi, Rana Begum, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sara Naim, Sherin Guirguis, Shirin Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, Sophia Al-Maria, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Youssef Nabil and Zineb Sedira.

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