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Kour Pour UK, b. 1987

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Kour Pour UK, b. 1987

Wishing For A Way Back Home, 2023
Acrylic on canvas over panel
48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm
8834
Wishing For A Way Back Home is the latest in Kour Pour’s ongoing series of Persian carpet paintings. The imagery and techniques Pour utilizes in the series are related to...
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Wishing For A Way Back Home is the latest in Kour Pour’s ongoing series of Persian carpet paintings. The imagery and techniques Pour utilizes in the series are related to his Iranian heritage, and address the intercultural fostering of aesthetic ideas over time throughout Asia and Europe. Pour first researches source images in search of an iconic Persian carpet design with deep intercultural legacies dating back centuries. He then photographs the design and makes modifications to that image before burning the new image onto a screen. Before screenprinting the image onto the surface of his painting, he prepares the surface with multiple interlocking layers of gesso. Applied vertically and then horizontally with a broom or brush, this creates a surface reminiscent of the woven pattern that would be found on a traditional carpet. Once the screenprint is then transferred to the surface, Pour takes turns sanding parts of the image away and repainting other sections by hand. The alternating erasures and additions echo the nature of intercultural transformation and the rewriting of history that is inherent in the visual language of Persian carpets.
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