LAAL COLLECTION ||

This exhibition, coinciding with Art Dubai, spotlights five decades of the renowned Iranian artist Fereydoun Ave’s collection of modern and contemporary Iranian and international art (1959–present). It is a complementary presentation to the initial chapter of this travelling exhibition series, originally conceived by the Carnegie Museum of Art for the 58th Carnegie International and later on view at the Jameel Art Centre, Dubai.

Fereydoun Ave’s Laal Collection, named after the artist’s mother, forms a testament to his interlocking roles as an artist, curator, designer, and collector. The body of work offers a visual portrait of Ave’s existence. The collection departs from Ave’s early influences in Western art. Works by the likes of Warhol, Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly, with whom Ave shared a Seychelles studio during the 1990s, come into conversation with pieces by the artists that Ave encountered in…