Kamrooz Aram
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Ornament for Indifferent Architecture, Kamrooz Aram
Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2017
Kamrooz Aram's first solo museum show in Europe takes place at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium.
The varied oeuvre of Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Iran) often deals with the complex relationship between traditional non-Western art and Western modernism. Through the use of a variety of media, including painting, collage, drawing and installation, Aram has found the potential for imaging that functions critically as a means to re-negotiate history. Aram complicates the relationship between ornament and decoration; he reveals the history of the ornament as an impulse towards the absence of figuration, in search for abstraction.
Kamrooz Aram, Ornamental Composition for Social Spaces 1, 2016
Oil, wax and pencil on canvas, 228.5 x 198 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Ornamental Composition for Social Spaces 2, 2016
Oil, wax and pencil on canvas, 213.25 x 182.75 cm
Kamrooz Aram, A Monument for Living In Defeat, 2016
Oil, wax and pencil on canvas, terrazzo and brass on
panel, solid walnut and brass pedestals, soapstone
and alabaster, Approx. 200 x 275 x 137 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (from the series, Ancient Through Modern 26), 2016
Postcards and book cloth on linen mounted on
panel, 50.75 x 76.25 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Ornament for Indifferent Architecture (1), 2017
Oil, wax and pencil on canvas, 213.25 x 182.75 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Ornament for Indifferent Architecture (1) (detail), 2017
Kamrooz Aram, Ornament for Indifferent Architecture (5), 2017
Oil, wax and pencil on canvas, 213.25 x 182.75 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Ornament for Indifferent Architecture (5) (detail), 2017
Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (from the series, Ancient Through Modern 27), 2017
Postcards and book cloth on linen mounted
on panel, 61 x 50.75 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (from the series, Ancient Through Modern 28), 2017
Postcards and book cloth on linen mounted
on panel, 61 x 50.75 cm
Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (from the series, Ancient Through Modern 29), 2016
Book pages, book cloth, and pencil on board
with walnut frame. 90.75 x 67.25 cm