Title
The illustrated page (edition #2)
2005-2007
Artists
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
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United States of America
- Date
- 2005-2007
- Media categories
- Painting , Watercolour
- Materials used
- gouache, gold leaf, silk-screen
- Dimensions
- 168.0 x 207.0 x 14.4 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the VisAsia Dinner Fund to commemorate the Arts of Islam' exhibition and the Asian Art Collection Benefactors 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 23.2008
- Copyright
- © Shahzia Sikander, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co
- Artist information
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Shahzia Sikander
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Works in the collection
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About
Born 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan, Shahzia Sikander is an acclaimed younger painter who lives in New York City. She has exhibited widely, including with her own show which was on at the MCA in Sydney from November 2007 to February 2008. Sikander was schooled in the miniature painting tradition of Pakistan, and combines the historic iconography and technique with her own aesthetics. 'The illustrated page' is one of two works created by the artist during a residency with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. The work takes the form of two extraordinarily large 'pages' presented side by side, like an open book, in a single frame. The artist plays around both with the format and size of traditional Persian miniature painting, as well as with her own idiosyncratic form of abstraction which involves in her words, 'the extraction of details', whereby she gradually removes the figures and narrative elements that would be found in traditional miniatures. The cluster of deers on the right page relates to a 'composite' deer with four bodies found in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, February 2008.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Shahzia Sikander, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 27 Nov 2007–17 Feb 2008
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
Fearless: contemporary South Asian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jul 2018–13 Jan 2019
Some mysterious process, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jun 2020–13 Sep 2020
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Rachel Kent, Shahzia Sikander, ''Intimate immensity': Shahzia Sikander's multi-dimensional art', pgs. 10-23., Sydney, 2007, 21-22; 112. This work is included in exhibition checklist.
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