Ayyam Gallery Jeddah is proud to announce Symphonic Meditations, Mohammad Bozorgi’s first solo exhibition in Saudi Arabia, on view from 1 April - 15 May 2014.
In his latest paintings, Bozorgi utilizes a meditative process of repetition that grows into an optical expanse of depth and volume across the surface of the canvas. The artist’s painstakingly executed compositions teem with energy as Arabic or Farsi text explodes outward into a rhythmic infinity. Such abstracted compositions accentuate the written word through a focus on symmetry and gestural forms, updating the centuries-old tradition of calligraphic painting in Islamic art while building on experiments in non-objective art since the mid twentieth century.