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WILL FENSTERMAKER , Frieze LA, February 18, 2025

Kour Pour | Nazarian / Curcio | 15 February – 22 March

 

Kour Pour, Birth Chart (Finding My Way Home), 2024, acrylic and block ink on shaped canvases, 146 × 145 × 8 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Nazarian / Curcio

 

The paintings in Kour Pour’s exhibition see the British-Iranian artist reconfigure his longstanding interests – Persian miniatures, Islamic architecture, sacred geometry – into enchanting new forms. Intricately layered on stacked, shaped canvases, these architectural paintings reference Frank Stella’s compositions from his 1963 trip to Iran. Pour’s presentation will also coincide with a new instalment of ‘Mehmooni’, an exhibition series curated by the artist for Guest House project space – located inside his Inglewood studio complex – featuring work by Iranian artists living in Los Angeles, home to the largest Persian diaspora in the US. It’s a beautiful meditation on syncretism and the construction of cultural identity.

 

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