Shaker Hasan al Said (1929-2004) - IRAQ

Born in Samawa in 1929. Works and lives in Baghdad.

His wonderfully textured paintings that look like sections of ancient weathered walls play with a sense of time. The graffitti that sprawls across them - the isolated Arabic letters and the splatters of paint however, bring them right into the 20th century.

Meg Abu Hamdan, The Star.

 

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acrylic on wood, 120x120cm, 1978