Shezad Dawood

Description

Tent. Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 17-09-2011, 26-11-2011 ; Oxford, Modern Art Oxford, 05-04-2012, 10-06-2012 ; Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 23-05-2012, 29-09-2012 ; The Exchange, 30-06-2012, 15-09-2012 ; KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, 15-11-2012, 16-03-2013. - Monografie toont een overzicht van het multi-media werk van de Britse kunstenaar Shezad Dawood (1974). - Published on the occasion of his touring solo exhibition, 'Piercing Brightness' is the first major monograph of British artist Shezad Dawood. For a number of years, Dawood has developed a unique discursive and collaborative approach to making art through a practice that incorporates light sculpture, textile painting and film. Known for his tumbleweeds- ironic sculptural fusions of Islamic and contemporary culture- Dawood gained international acclaim for Feature, a 'zombie Western' set in the English countryside