There’s more to art than what meets the eye. Shirazeh Houshiary’s large-scale, apparently abstract painting contains two words written in the Arabic script, repeated many times over the width of the canvas. Discover the details in this piece and the works of 22 other contemporary artists from Iran in the Aga Khan Museum’s world-premiere exhibition “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians,” closing this Sunday, June 4, 2017.
For details, please visit: www.agakhanmuseum.org/contemporary-persians
Shirazeh Houshiary, “Memory,” 2005
White Aquacryl, blue pencil, and gesso on canvas
© Shiva Ahmadi
Photos: Janet Kimber
Courtesy: Mohammed Afkhami Foundation
