VISUAL DIALOGUES

Fereydoun Ave and Shaqayeq Arabi continue their ongoing dialogue with one another’s practices, exploring the fields of the three- and two-dimensional. Using the place where these two different planes meet, the artists explore a shared interest in material, abstraction, and the found object.

Fereydoun Ave’s new cycle of works, Shah Abbas and his Page Boy, marks a high point of his oeuvre. It brings together the qualities that distinguish him as a prominent Iranian artist and, indeed, as a true cosmopolitan.

In his work, Ave weaves together a web that reflects the world in all its complexities and contradictions. He unites the artistic expression of the Western avant-garde—Ave was a close friend of Cy Twombly—with Eastern traditions. By using ambivalence as a constructive principle, he does not create a culture clash but rather a syncretic and compelling fusion.

The works…