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Saloua Raouda Choucair at CRG Gallery New York

November 16, 2015

A current exhibition of work by the Lebanese artist, Saloua Raouda Choucair at CRG Gallery New York features tapestries and a rug.

Saloua Raouda Choucair exhibition at CRG Gallery, New York

Saloua Raouda Choucair exhibition at CRG Gallery, New York

To 20th December 2015 at CRG Gallery New York, is an exhibition of work by the Lebanese artist, Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916). Now considered a pioneer of modernism in the Middle East, her inspirations include sufi principles, Arabic poetry, physics and the Marseille architecture of Le Corbusier.

Choucair studied under the French artist, Fernand Léger in Paris then was based in Beirut, where she has conducted a lifetime of experimentation with materials and forms that she hoped would become monumental public sculptures or civic buildings. Paintings, sculptures, tapestries and a rug all feature in the current New York show.

Saloua Raouda Choucair exhibition at CRG Gallery, New York

Saloua Raouda Choucair exhibition at CRG Gallery, New York

“Saloua Choucair isn’t just an artist. She is a thinker,” remarked Carla Chammas, co-founder of New York’s CRG Gallery. In The Guardian review of her 2013 retrospective at Tate Modern, Adrian Searle wrote: ‘Her feel for materials and sense of scale, her attempts to fuse western abstraction with the Islamic tradition and sufi teachings led her to ways of working with repeated forms, a feel for the organic and the constructed that is both independent and at times a thrilling synthesis.’

Rythmical Composition, 1961 Carpet, Persian Point 55 1/2 x 51 in. (141 x 130 cm) SC9351

Rythmical Composition, 1961 Carpet, Persian Point 55 1/2 x 51 in. (141 x 130 cm) SC9351, Saloua Raouda Choucair

Composition for Tapestry, 1952 gouache 4 11/16 x 12 in. (12 x 30.5 cm) SC9346

Composition for Tapestry, 1952 gouache 4 11/16 x 12 in. (12 x 30.5 cm) SC9346, Saloua Raouda Choucair

Composition for Tapestry, 1956 gouache 7 13/16 x 19 1/4 in. (20 x 49 cm) SC9348

Composition for Tapestry, 1956 gouache 7 13/16 x 19 1/4 in. (20 x 49 cm) SC9348, Saloua Raouda Choucair

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