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Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, b. 1979)
Yellow Cow Cheese (Yellow, Red, White)
signed and dated 'Ahmed Mater 2010 ' (on the lower left of each print); numbered 'AP IIII' (on the lower centre of three of the prints)
silkscreen on somerset tub paper
each: 5623 x 4514 in. (144 x 115cm.)
overall: 11313 x 9012 in. (288 x 230cm.)
Executed in 2010, this work is an artist proof from an edition of thirty-five plus three artist's proofs
Provenance
Donated by a private collector who acquired this work directly from the artist.

Variations of Yellow Cow Cheese(Yellow, Red, White) have been exhibited and illustrated in the below:
Literature
S. Stapleton & E. Booth-Clibborn (eds.), Ahmed Mater, London.
S. Stapleton & E. Booth-Clibborn (eds.), Edge of Arabia: Contemporary art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, London 2012.
D. Mills & L. Danforth, Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia, Bates College, Lewiston 2017.
A. Mater, S. Stapleton & E. Booth-Clibborn (eds.), Prognosis /Saudi Arabia: An Artists Odyssey by Ahmed Mater, London 2021 (in forthcoming book to be published 2021).

Exhibited
Sharjah, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah Biennial 8, Still Life : Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, 2007.London, Vinyl Factory, Ahmed Materr, 2010.
Istanbul, Sanat Līmani as part of European Capitol of Culture, Edge of Arabia: TRANSiTION, 2010.
London, Vinyl Factory, Ahmed Mater, 2010.
Doha, KATARA Art Center, Bending History, 2012.
London, Edge of Arabia Gallery, EOA Edition #01, 2014.
London, Edge of Arabia Gallery, Never Never Land, 2015.
Jeddah, Athr Gallery, Letters: Fragments of a Memory, 2018. 
King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, Drum Roll, Please, 2018.
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Lot Essay


Yellow Cow is a series of interventions, performances and installations inspired by a passage in the Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow), the longest chapter in the Qur’an. In a statement by Ahmed Mater during his Yellow Cow Products project exhibited at the the 8th Sharjah Biennial (2007), he noted the series intends to, '…represent the link communicating the social, political, and ecological challenges that face the world as a result of urbanisation, pollution, radical political ambitions, and the continued abuse of our natural resources. (.) The cow with the yellow colour was used as an expression of religious heritage.'

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