Masquerade
90x60cm
Steel, hand fabricated from welded steel nuts
90 x 60 x 30 cm
Unique work
Interior or sheltered garden
Price, availability and freight on request. 0451 331 333 · sculpture@artpark.com.au
Delivered and installed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Australia-wide. Plinths and bases · Commission a size or finish
About the work
Steel nuts, welded one to the next, become skin, hair and falling cloth. She gathers the drapery at her chest and lifts her face, crowned with a pair of pointed ears that turn the portrait into a mask.
Emad Dhahir draws on the mythology of ancient Mesopotamia, his own culture, blended with the rituals, dreams and memories of daily life. He borrows from ancient sculpture and from modern masters such as Giacometti, and, like Jaume Plensa, builds his figures from steel nuts and iron.
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Unique and 90 cm tall, it suits a foyer, lounge, gallery plinth or sheltered courtyard.
About Emad Dhahir
Contemporary sculptor working with bronze and steel.
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Emad Dhahir combines technical control and artistic vision to capture the human form in steel. The main sources if inspiration for my body of sculptural work comes from the mythology of my own culture.-the ancient Mespotamia which are blended with rituals of my daily life, my dreams and memories. I borrow the beauty from formal and aesthetic qualities of old ancient sculptures as well as the languages and forms of of modern sculpture such as those of Giacometti, transforming them into a new contemporary language,and spicing them with an Iraqi style. Inspired and influenced by Spanish sculptors Manuel Marti Moreno and Juame Plensa who utilise steel nuts and iron in their large scale works.
This style often contains and interprets serious subject matter in form and content which provide to my sculptures different humanistic and aesthetic qualities. While facing these small sized sculptures the viewer should comprehend that they are a creative and playful foundation for bigger sculptural projects waiting to be created for public space.
Additional Emad Dhahir work is available through our sister gallery, SOHO Galleries — view the full collection at https://www.sohogalleries.net/australian-sculptors/emad-dhahir/
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