Name: Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, b. 1979)
Brand: Evolution of Man
Price: 15000.00 GBP
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Ahmed Mater (Saudi Arabian, b. 1979)
Evolution of Man
signed, numbered and dated 'Ahmed Mater 2010 60/100' on a separate sheet in original portfolio, published by Prognosis Art
silkscreen print on archival paper, in five parts
each: 31¹⁄₂ x 23²⁄₃ in. (80 x 60cm.)
overall: 31¹⁄₂ x 117¹⁄₈ in. (80 x 300cm.)
Executed in 2010, this work is number sixty from an edition of one hundred

Donated by a private collector who acquired this work directly from the artist.

Variations of Evolution of Man have been exhibited and illustrated in the below:

S. Stapleton & E. Booth-Clibborn (eds.), Ahmed Mater, London 2010.
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 Artist’s Odyssey by Ahmed Mater, London 2021 (in forthcoming book to be published 2021).

Cairo, The Other: The 11th International Cairo Biennale, 2009.
Berlin, Torstrasse 1, Edge of Arabia Berlin - Grey Borders/Grey Frontiers, 2010.
London, Vinyl Factory, Ahmed Mater, 2010.
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Edge of Arabia, 2012.
London, Edge of Arabia Gallery, EOA Edition #01, 2014.
Lewiston, Bates College Museum of Art, Phantom Punch, 2016.
Standing Rock, Evolution of Man Site Specific Installation (Flags), 2016.
San Gimignano, Galleria Continua, Mitochondria: Powerhouses, 2018.
King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, Drum Roll, Please, 2018.
Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Cities of Conviction, 2018.
Memphis, Art Museum of University of Memphis, Desert to Delta, 2018.

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I am a doctor and confront life and death every day … I am a country man and at the same time, I am the son of this strange, scary oil civilization. In ten years our lives changed completely. For me it is a drastic change that I experience every day.
- Ahmed Mater

One of the most prominent contemporary artists of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater explores the paradoxical natures of science/faith, modernisation/tradition and religion/globalisation in his scrutiny of contemporary realities. Also a practising physician, Mater entwines scientific objectives with politically-charged artistic expressions throughout his body of work.

Evolution of Man, 2010, comments on the rapid evolution of Saudi Arabia since its discovery of oil in 1938, which transformed the Kingdom’s development fuelled by petrodollars. In this iconic work, the morphing of a gas pump into a man, gun to its head, reflects on a foreboding prognosis - that of the risks to the environment, social fabric and ultimate threat to cycles of destruction.

Mater was the first Saudi artist with a solo museum exhibition in the United States (2016): Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Further exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); Guggenheim, New York (2016); New Museum, New York (2014); Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (2013); Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala (2012); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2011), Venice Biennale (2009, 2011) and the Sharjah Biennial (2007, 2013). Mater’s works are held in the collections of the British Museum, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.