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Lot 104*

Abed Al Kadiri
(Lebanon, born 1984)
Homage to Yahya Al Wasiti

24 November 2020, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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Abed Al Kadiri (Lebanon, born 1984)

Homage to Yahya Al Wasiti
oil and charcoal on canvas
signed "Abed Al Kadiri" and dated "2015" on the verso, and titled "Homage to Yahya Al Wasiti"
140 x 150cm (55 1/8 x 59 1/16in).

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Provenance:
Property from a private collection, Beirut

"For a long time, my work has been engaged in subjects such as freedom, violence, migration and destruction. However, what mostly interests me is positioning myself as a contemporary painter with a focus on socio-political themes that can be expressed through painting, using news, social media images and storytelling as major resources in my visual research."

- Abed Al Kadiri

From 2006-2015, Al Kadiri held various positions apart from his painterly practice. He worked as an art critic beginning in 2006, before establishing the FA Gallery, Kuwait, in 2010. He was the director of Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) Kuwait in 2012, which has become one of the leading non-profit arts institutions in the Middle East. There, he curated numerous exhibitions and developed an extensive education program. He also initiated art exchange programs making way for collaborations with major art spaces in France, Spain, Hungary, the UK, South Korea, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf.

In 2015, Al Kadiri left his position at CAP, and has been living in Beirut working as a full-time artist since 2016. He is the cofounder of Dongola, a publishing house for limited edition books produced by artists. He was recently awarded the Sursock Museum Prize at the 32nd Salon d'Automne

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