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Installation at MAMCO, Geneva, 2018
Installation at MAMCO, Geneva, 2018
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Rasheed Araeen, Sixty-Three Years of the Figural, Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 29 June - 15 July 2023
Rasheed Araeen, Sixty-Three Years of the Figural, Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 29 June - 15 July 2023
Rasheed Araeen
The Golden Series (4 Collages), 1974-1976
Collage and photographs on board
Each: 121.9 x 101.6 cm
48 x 40 in
48 x 40 in
Signed and dated 'Rasheed Araeen/ 1975' on the reverse of 'Civilisation', labels from the exhibition 'Essential Black Art' at Chisenhale Gallery on the reverse of two of the works
Further images
In the work called Civilisation, there is on top a poster for the BBC series called Civilisation by Kenneth Clark, the poster is torn, below which there is a page...
In the work called Civilisation, there is on top a poster for the BBC series called Civilisation by Kenneth Clark, the poster is torn, below which there is a page listing the stock market on which Rasheed has drawn the Union Jack, and in the centre is Winston Churchill holding a gun. Whilst at the bottom are photos of displaced immigrants and the famished, the victims of ‘Civilisation’. Civilisation is exposed as being built up and supported by War, Politics, Finance and the Institutions of the State.
The Golden Series, 1974 - 1976
Disaster
In Disaster, the top layer is a torn poster announcing the visit of Salazar, the Portuguese dictator and his banquet at the British Museum. Below which is the End The Alliance protest poster and then some press images of Salazar’s soldiers in Angola, who were notoriously brutal. Here they are holding trophies, decapitated heads, they would also use them as footballs. Here Rasheed was very critical of Salazar and his regime but was equally critical of the British Government for hosting him at the British Museum, a cultural Institution, which should be non-political.
The Golden Series, 1974 - 1976
Disaster
In Disaster, the top layer is a torn poster announcing the visit of Salazar, the Portuguese dictator and his banquet at the British Museum. Below which is the End The Alliance protest poster and then some press images of Salazar’s soldiers in Angola, who were notoriously brutal. Here they are holding trophies, decapitated heads, they would also use them as footballs. Here Rasheed was very critical of Salazar and his regime but was equally critical of the British Government for hosting him at the British Museum, a cultural Institution, which should be non-political.
Exhibitions
The Essential Black Art, (Rasheed Araeen, Mona Hatoum, Keith Piper, Sonia Boyce, Zarina Bhimjee, Gavin Jantjes, Eddie Chambers, Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas, Alan de Souza), Chisenhale Gallery, London, 5 February - 5 March 1988Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MAMCO Geneva, Baltic Gateshead, Garage Moscow, 2017 - 2019
Grosvenor Gallery, London, Rasheed Araeen, Historical Works, Frieze Masters, October 2022
Grosvenor Gallery, London, Rasheed Araeen, Sixty-Three Years of the Figural, held at Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 29 June - 15 July 2023
Cambridge, The Heong Gallery, Rasheed Araeen: A British Story, 18 October 2024 – 2 February 2025, (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Araeen, Rasheed, Making Myself Visible, London, 1984, illustrated p.80 in B&WEd. Nick Aikens, Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MAMCO Geneva, Baltic Gateshead, Garage Moscow, 2017 - 2019, illustrated p.220-223