Revisiting Fragments & Entities
Roya Khadjavi Projects is delighted to present “Revisiting Fragments and Entities” the solo exhibition of works by Iranian-born artist Farsad Labbauf opening on September 23rd, 2021 and on view thru October 16th at High Line Nine, Gallery 9.1 in Chelsea, New York. An artist talk will be held on Saturday, October 9th.
In this exhibition Khadjavi showcases part of a recently completed series, a collection of images from antiquity in addition to Labbauf’s collected images from his childhood. The seven intricate collages and the eight delicately layered and stitched photographs were started in 2000 and 2001 spanning over 20 years.
“The exhibit ponders themes of cultural erasure, historical revisionism and memory and identity. Like the thin colored threads that work their way around each work, Labbauf’s subjects, collaged images of the past and present, appear to be suspended in time.” (Rebecca Anne Proctor)
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, with essays by Jim Elkins E.C.Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory and criticism at the School of Visual Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Anne Proctor, Journalist and former Editor in Chief of Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, as well as an interview with the artist by Media Farzin, art historian, critic and educator based in New York.
About the artist
Farsad Labbauf is a multidisciplinary Iranian artist living and working in the New York area. Best known for his linear figurative paintings, Labbauf immigrated to the United States at the age of thirteen. After enrolling in Rhode Island School of Design in 1982, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, followed by a second degree in Industrial Design. The origins of Labbauf's work lie in Figurative Expressionism, a style he practiced for more than two decades leading to the creation of his linear figurative painting style. His paintings as well as his ongoing sewing series are inspired by studies in quantum physics and a reverence for ideas of “Unity and Monism”. Labbauf first started exploring these ideas during an initial trip back to his native country of Iran by making his first sewing series, twenty-one years ago. His work has been featured in more than sixty group shows across the globe, including the Saatchi Gallery in London, Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, Ex Aurum Museum in Pescara, Italy, as well as The Jersey City Museum in New Jersey. Additionally, he has held solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Amsterdam and Tehran. Labbauf's work can be found in numerous public and private collections including The Salsali Museum, The Afkhami Collection, The Saatchi Gallery and The Newark Museum of Art as well as Carsten de Boer and Lie Sang Bong art collections.
Artist: Farsad Labbauf
