Imran Qureshi
Subtitle: idea of landscape
By: editors: Stinna Toft, Xenia Geroulanos and Razia Sadik ; translation: Judyta Preis, Joergen Herman Monrad
Contributors: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris, France); KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Ålborg, Denmark)
Publisher: Kunsten
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Ålborg]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9788788307009
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Idea of landscape :
Description: At first glance it looks like blood. Big, red smears and small, red spatters fill the canvases, calling to mind an abandoned battlefield, where nothing but the trail of blood remains. But if you look closely, you will discover that there is more to the blood-red colour explosions than meets the eye. ... but if you look closely, you will discover that there is more to the blood-red colour explosions than meets the eye. In the exhibition 'Idea of Landscape' Imran Qureshi explores the relationship between hope and fear, creation and destruction, life and death. These elements are in some way contrasts, but they also go hand in hand. All of them are present in Qureshi's works - depending on the eye of the beholder. If you see the works from a distance, the blood dominates, but if you step closer, the blood transforms into meticulous flower formations. The works therefore symbolise life and death at the same time.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 12 September through 17 October 2015; and at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, 23 January through 24 April 2016.

English and Danish.