Lot 84: Afshin Pirhashemi (Iranian, b. 1974)

Afshin Pirhashemi (Iranian, b. 1974)
X-Series
signed and titled 'Afshin X-Series' (lower left of top right panel)
oil and metallic paint on canvas, polyptych of six panels
78 x 118in. (200 x 300cm.) overall
Painted in 2008

This lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.
Afshin Pirhashemi's almost exclusive use of black and white stems from a desire for clarity. There has long been an element of fantasy in Pirhashemi's work, but more recently he has focussed on arrangements of figures against a plain white ground. The lack of extraneous detail, combined with keenly observed features on the figures concentrates attention soley on the protagonists and the relationships between them.