
Noor Soussi
Head of Department
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£40,000 - £60,000
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Group Head
Provenance:
Property from the Rose Issa collection
Exhibited:
the Whitechapel Gallery, The Adventures of the Black Square, 2015
The son of Armenian refugees, Avedissian studied fine art at the School of Art and Design in Montreal, 1970-73, and applied arts at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris, 1974-76. Avedissian draws upon ideas of many different cultures ad traditions, his work ranging from photography to painted stencils to costume and textile design. His hand-dyed textiles include geometric forms inspired by Pharaonic patterns, Bedouin carpets, Silk Road brick walls or Syrian mother-of-pearl inlaid boxes. Through the use of repetitive iconoclastic images, Avedissian challenges social influences of Western sculptures in the Middle East.