AHMED MATER (B. 1979, TABUK)

Lot 49
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Lot 49 | AHMED MATER (B. 1979, TABUK)
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AHMED MATER (B. 1979, TABUK)

From the Real to the Symbolic City (Desert of Pharan series)

fine art latex print on matte 200gm unbleached printing paper

image: 107 x 88 ½in. (271.8 x 224.8cm.)

framed: 118 x 98 ½in. (300 x 250.2cm.)

Executed in 2012, this work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof





Provenance

Athr Gallery, Jeddah.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013.



Literature

R. A. Proctor, ‘We Have Our Own Individual Voices: Saudi Artists Debate Their Place in the Kingdom as the West Becomes Wary of Its Commitment to Progress’, in Artnet News, 12 September 2019 (detail illustrated).



Exhibited

Sharjah, Sharjah Biennial 11, Re: Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited, p. 688).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, 2016, no. 6 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater, 2016 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour on the cover).



Further details

Another version of this work is part of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C. and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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