Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Shahzia Sikander
Monsters to Midgets Series
Lot Closed
September 28, 06:12 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969)
Monsters to Midgets Series
2001
Signed in lower right
Direct photogravures
Suite of 14 Direct photogravures (From the edition of: 1 suite BAT, 2 suites PP, 2 suites AP, 10 editions)
20 x 15 ¼ in.
In handmade portfolio box by artist
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Gift of Janet Lennie Flohr
Shahzia Sikander challenges strict formal tropes that are present across cultures, particularly by deconstructing orientalist narratives in Western art history. Working across mediums, Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South Asian miniature painting traditions, launching the form known today as neo-miniature. In the Monsters to Midget Series, Sikander takes traditional narratives of Hindu and Muslim miniatures to create new mythological characters. In her own words, the series “was an indirect arrival to the human form. I was subverting the ‘dead’ ‘decorative’ arts in books on Islamic art by infusing their form and ‘flattened’ physicality with a perceived lurking vitality.”