Synopsis
Halley's paintings and Roccasalva's works share is the 'quest', which goes quite far back in literature; Peter Halley; Direction Direction 2013-15, are Peter Halley's like-named new series of seven paintings centered on the architecture of the Kaaba (Arabic for 'The Cube'). The paintings' straight lines and basic geometry are at once alienating and inviting, beautiful and naïve. Just as Halley previously demonstrated that neither geometry nor technology function as innocent forces in Western society and philosophy, in Direction, he thus suggests that even the transcendental is filtered through discourses of dominance. With the doorway figuring as the heart of the work, the painting is reformulated not as the presentation of an architectural form but as a representation of the self. The conduit is refigured in the current series as representative of a transcendental relationship. Providing a foundational standard around which the work is structured, the conduit also symbolizes the direction to which a life might be devoted-the right path stretching beyond the doorway to emancipation. Pietro Roccasalva; Z (2015), a sculptural installation, hand chiselled entirely out of wood, is a unique sythesis of disparate inspirations: the Zurvan; "Journey of the Magi" by T. S. Eliot; the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo da Vinci; the poetry of the legendary Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, one of the seven Hanged Poets of pre-Islamic times, reputed to have been honored by hanging copies of his work in the Kaaba. The blind camel, according to a metaphor borrowed from a significant poet of the Islamic Golden Age, Zuhayr, represents destiny: both the camel and fate hold the ability to ruthlessly trample men into the dust. Zuhayr's poem, written at the time when two warring Bedouin tribes ended a long period of hostility, resonated with Roccasalva for its reflective nature of the state of the whole tribal society that had been ravaged by war.
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The Awakening: Peter Halley and Pietro Roccasalva - A Mottahedan Project
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ISBN 10: 0993584500
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ISBN 10: 0993584500
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Hardcover. Condition: g+ to near fine. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original white paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Catalog for the extraordinary exhibition of work by Peter Halley and Pietro Roccasalva, two widely shown artists. The catalog opens with a Leonardo da Vinci quote printed across inside front cover and front free endpaper: "There are 3 classes of people: those who see, those who see what they are shown & those who do not see." and ends with a similar display at the rear of the catalog quoting T. S. Eliot. Beautifully produced catalog with fascinating color photographs showing the juxtaposing of Roccasalva's wooden sculptures with the strictly geometrical paintings of Halley. Contributions by John Yau and and interviews with the artists by Salwa Mikdadi. The exhibition is curated at the Mottahedan Projects (MP) in Dubai, a commercial project space promoting international contemporary art, featuring emerging as well as established artists. MP is revising the traditional gallery approach underwriting production costs of the exhibitions and guaranteeing the purchase of the works exhibited. Binding of catalog slightly rubbed with light wear along edges. Binding in overall good+, interior in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 41221