Lawrie Shabibi announces representation of Mehdi Moutashar
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Lawrie Shabibi announces representation of Mehdi Moutashar
Mehdi Moutashar, Deux carrés dont un encadré (Two squares, one of them framed), 2017, Wood, paint, elastic wire. One of the four minimalist geometric artworks part of Moutashar's Jameel Prize 5 presentation. Courtesy the Artist. Photo © Fabrice Leroux.



DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi announced the representation of French-Iraqi artist Mehdi Moutashar (b. 1943, Iraq), whose art lies at the confluence of two artistic traditions - the western heritage of geometric abstraction and the Islamic aesthetic tradition of geometrical order and lines. His art is a radical, geometrical abstraction with figures that are never enclosed inside the limits of a contour but open, fragmentary and constantly shifting.

Moutashar's first solo at Lawrie Shabibi opens on 5 October 2021.

Born in the city of Hilla in central Iraq, close to the ancient city of Babylon, Mehdi Moutashar graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq in 1966 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France in 1970. He is a former professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1974-2008.

Moutashar has held numerous solo exhibitions, including Racines carrées, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France (2021), Hoffmann Gallery, Friedberg, Germany (2019), Measuring Space, National Theatre & Albareh Gallery, Bahrain (2017), Victor Sfez Gallery, Paris (2016), AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France (2016), Le Petit Temple Gallery, Lasalle, France (2014), Linde Hollinger Gallery, Ladenburg, Germany (2013), AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France (2012), and Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt, Germany (2011), amongst others.

In 2018 he won the prestigious Jameel Prize 5 at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London, sharing the accolade with Marina Tabassum, an architect from Bangladesh. Moutashar received the award for his bold work of minimalist abstraction rooted in Islamic geometry - exhibited as part of the finalists’ group show at the V&A (2018), followed by a second iteration at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2019).

Other select group exhibitions include Small is beautiful!, Galerie Denise René, Paris (2021), Structure du Silence, Galerie Denise René, Paris (2021), Espace Oblique, Galerie Denise René, Paris (2018), Bagdad Mon Amour, Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris (2018), Art Dubai with Albareh Gallery (2017), Au-delà de la forme: Richard Serra / Mehdi Moutashar, Palais du Tau, Reims (2016), Hommage au Carré noir de Malevitch, Musée Vasarely, Budapest (2015), Galerie Deleuze-Rochetin, Arpaillargues (2011), and François Morellet et Mehdi Moutashar, Institut des Cultures de l’Islam, Paris (2010).

His work is held in public collections worldwide, including: Fonds Régional Art Contemporain Provence Alpes, Côte d’Azur; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt, Germany; Montbéliard Museum, France; Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, France; Klingspor Museum der Stadt, Offenbach, Germany; Fine Arts Museum, Cholet, France; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; National Gallery of Fine Arts, Ammann, Jordan; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Modern Art Museum, Tunis; and, National Modern Art Museum, Bagdad, Iraq.

Moutashar lives and works in Arles, France.










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