Artworks by Maliheh Afnan at Richard Saltoun Gallery on artnet

Maliheh Afnan

(Iranian, 1935–2016)

Maliheh Afnan

Tablet V, 2000

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Maliheh Afnan

Veiled Havoc, 2010

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Maliheh Afnan

Manuscript, 2006 20.5 x 23.5 cm, 2006

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Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1949: Left Haifa for Beirut
1955: BA American University of Beirut
1956: Moved to USA
1957 - 1962: Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC
1962: MFA George Washington University, Washington DC
1963 - 1967: Worked & exhibited in Kuwait
1967 - 1973: Worked & exhibited in Beirut
1973 - 1997: Worked & exhibited in Paris
1997 - 2008: Living & working in London
: The artist describes her work as being “rooted in memory, both my own and a more distant, perhaps collective one. I unconsciously but continually refer to places, scripts, faces from the past both real and imagined.” Her work is not pre-planned, but instead is a more spontaneous process, where she begins with a line which takes on a life force of its own “making me a mere instrument of its journey.” Often, the source of these lines stem from scripts - scripts of all kinds, even invented ones. The scripts and text which often use the Arabic alphabet are always devoid of literal meaning. It is the line itself which speaks. At times, landscapes emerge, or faces. “In a way I find I write my painting.”
“If all of one's life is registered in the recesses of the unconscious, then one’s work might simply be an unravelling, filtered and transformed through time, and the need to give it form. The process eludes me, and retains its mystery.”

Exhibitions

2014: Asemic: Henri Michaux, Maliheh Afnan, Fathi Hassan, Lutz Becker, Cultuurcentrum Bruges, Belgium
: Tonight, The Door Towards Words Will be Opened, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany (Solo)
2013: Speak Memory, (curated by Lutz Becker), Rose Issa Projects, London, England (Solo)
: -The Blue Route: Journey and Beauty from the Mediterranean to China, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
-Hope Map, Cultuurcentrum, Bruges, Belgium
2012: Persian for Beginners, Rose Issa Projects, London, England
2011: -The Art of Writing, Kurhaus Kolonnade, Wiesbaden, Germany
-Zendegi: Twelve Contemporary Iranian Artists (curated by Rose Issa Projects), Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 - 2011: Miragens, Travelling exhibition, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia, Brasil
2010: Modern Times - Responding to Chaos, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England
: Traces, Faces, Places Rose Issa Projects, London, England
2009: Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany
2008: Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd, London
: Word into Art, DIFC Building, Dubai
2007: The Dance of Quill and Ink, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
2006: Word into Art, The British Museum, London
2000: England & Co, London (solo)
1998: Galerie Du Château, Noirmoutier en l’Ile
1997: Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
1996: EuropeArt, International Art Fair, Geneva
: Galerie Mouvances, Paris (solo)
1995: Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture àl’éau, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
: Recent Acqusitions, The British Museum, London
: Salon Comparisons, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
1994 - 1996: Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
1994: Salon d’Automme, Thorigny-Sur-Marne
: Théâtre de Beyrouth, Beirut (solo)
: Galerie 10 Bonaparte, Paris (solo)
: Salon d’Automme, Thorigny-Sur-Marne
1993: Leighton House Museum, London (solo)
1992: Galerie du Chêne – Donald Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland
1991: Collecting 20thCentury Art, The British Museum, London
1990 - 1993: Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
1989: Contemporary Artists and Calligraphy, Egee Art, London
1988: Galerie Faris, Paris
: Galerie du Chateau, Noirmoutier en l’Ile, France
: Painting & Sculpture at the End of the 20th Century European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
1987: Mac 2000, Grand Palais, Paris
: Kufa Gallery, London
: Galerie Arcadia, Paris (solo)
1986: Salon Comparisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1985: Galerie Faris, Paris
: Galerie D’Art Contemporain, Paris
: Paysages, Galerie, Paris
1984 - 1993: Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
: Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
: Ecruiture, Galerie, Paris
1984: Ecritures du Temps Présent, Centre d’Action Culturelle
1982: A & A Turner Galerie, Paris (solo
1980: Galerie Brigitte Schehadé, Paris (solo)
1978: Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris (solo)
1977: Petits Formats, Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris
: Les Dessins de L’Eté, Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris
: Centre Culturel Valéry Larbaud, Vichy, France
1975 - 1976: Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
1974: Galerie Cyrus, Paris, presented by Michel Tapié (solo)
1973: Young Artists Exhibition sponsored by the United Nations, New York
1971: Centre D’Art de Beyrouth Gallery, Beirut
: Galerie Claire Brambach, Basel, Switzerland, presented by Mark Tobey Jafet Library, American University of Beirut (solo)
1965: The Alumni Association, American University of Beirut (solo)
: Watercolour Association, Smithsonian Institution
: Washington DC. Received the Marta Mercey Award
1963 - 1964: 66th and 67th National Exhibitions of the Washington
1962 - 1963: 15th & 16th Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Maliheh Afnan

(Iranian, 1935–2016)

Maliheh Afnan

Maliheh Afnan

Maliheh Afnan

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

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