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Ali Rashid is an Iraqi-born painter and poet based in the Netherlands. Living in exile in the Netherlands gave him the opportunity to research and his practice developed as a result of working in solitude and keeping apart from the gossip and socializing that obstructs the philosophical, epistemological and aesthetic inquiries of artistic production. In his earlier work, his archive as he calls it, he drew detailed and chaotic scenes incorporating human and mythological figures, mixed with poetry. Today the words and lines developed in large scale abstract paintings and ink drawings which incorporate the written word, collage and media clippings. He discovered that the artist is not required to draw form, but rather its trace. This prompts the audience to scrutinize the trace for meanings. The trace is a hypothetical framework through which the viewer engages with the work. In his visual work, with simple references and a minimalism of colour and form, through dialogue and research and transmutation, he attempts to bring multiple scenes within the scope of a single image. He stopped titling his work over ten years ago. Titles stultify the audience’s ability to discover the work, its close references and wider implications. They constrict a conversation that is so vital to the enduring importance of the work.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 35.4 H x 0.5 D in

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