Details
AHMED MATER (B. 1979, TABUK)
Magnetism I – IV
each sheet: signed, numbered and dated 'Ahmed Mater 2012 45/45', consecutively titled 'Magnetism I-IV' (along the lower horizontal margin)
hand-printed photogravure, in four parts
each sheet: 2438 x 3178in. (62 x 81cm.)
Executed in 2012, this work is number 45 from an edition of 45
Provenance
Athr Gallery, Jeddah.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014.
Literature
Arab Express: The Latest Art from The Arab World (exh. cat.), Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, 2012, p. 202 (illustrated, pp. 105-107; detail illustrated on the back cover).
Exhibited
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Edge of Arabia: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Light from the Middle East: New Photography, 2012-2013, p. 177 (another from the edition exhibited; Magnetism I-II illustrated in colour, pp. 60-61).
Paris, Institut du Monde Arab, 25 Years of Arab Creativity, 2012-2013 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated, pp. 127-129). This exhibition then travelled to Abu Dhabi, The Gallery, Emirates Palace.
London, Edge of Arabia Gallery, EOA Edition #01, 2013-2014 (another from the edition exhibited; detail illustrated, p. 1).
Detroit, Arab American National Museum, Epicenter X, 2017, p. 61 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated, p. 60).
Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum, Longing for Mecca, 2019-2020 (another from the edition exhibited).
FURTHER DETAILS
The artist was commissioned to produce this portfolio for the exhibition Hajj, Journey to the Heart of Islam held at the British Museum in London in 2012.
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