
Nima Sagharchi
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Provenance:
Property of a private collection, London
Acquired in Abu Dhabi in circa 1980s
"""""Had I not moved to London, my work would without a doubt have been very different as my exile made me more aware of what I was doing and it induced me to create works that would be accepted by other cultures.
In the introduction of the exhibition catalogue of a show I had in Washington D.C. that talked about the use of calligraphy in my works, the curator wrote that he could not see Arabic calligraphy in my works but rather a series of 'signs'. That statement gave me more confidence in what I was doing. By trying to produce an art that is accesible to everyone I was not only attempting to bridge the contemporary and the ancient, but also to bridge Western and Eastern art"""""""
- Dia Azzawi