Fahd Burki
dal 16/3/2014 al 29/4/2014
Segnalato da
16/3/2014
Fahd Burki
Grey Noise, Dubai
Yield. A set of new paintings and sculptures that reflect on the notion of utopia. Burki's practice explores the possibilities of presenting ontologies through a lexicon of icons and symbols.
Grey Noise is pleased to announce Lahore based artist Fahd Burki's third solo exhibition.
Burki’s on going practice explores the possibilities of presenting ontologies through a lexicon of icons and symbols harvested from a personal mythology of the present.
Yield includes a set of new paintings and sculptures that reflect on the notion of utopia. Synthesizing the comical and the archetypal, the works can be viewed as contemplations on the desire for an ideal state. The title functions as a lynchpin for disparate ideas, indicating submission to the transient nature of existence, an acceptance of the inevitability of transformation, as well as predictions of what may lie beyond. The work seeks to evoke a sense of temporality, engaging ideas of transience and permeability, both philosophical and formal, by dissolving various foundational dichotomies — man/environment, culture/nature, and figure/ground.
Fahd Burki was the recipient of the John Jones Art on Paper Award presented at Art Dubai 2013. As part of the award, this exhibition is organized in collaboration with John Jones, London.
About the Artist
b. 1981, Lahore, Pakistan / Lives and works in Lahore
Fahd Burki graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 2003 and pursued a Postgraduate Diploma from Royal Academy Schools, London, UK between 2008 – 10. He was one of the selected artists from the Commonwealth countries to undertake a residency at Edinburgh Printmakers in 2013. Burki will be exhibiting his new works at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France in May 2014.
A monograph titled ‘Fahd Burki Works from 2003 – 2013’ published in association with SKIRA editore Milan will be launched alongside his exhibition at Grey Noise, Dubai.
Image: Bad Magic, 2012. Acrylics on paper 51 x 37.7 cm
Opening Monday, 17 March 2014 5pm – 8pm
Grey Noise
Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue, Street 8, Al Quoz 1, Exit 43 SZR, Dubai UAE.
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