Pakistani Artist Imran Qureshi Exhibits at Ikon

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Installation Shot, And They Still Seek the Traces of Blood, 2013, “Imran Qureshi Artist of the Year 2013”
at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, © Imran Qureshi, Courtesy Corvi-Mora and Ikon.
UNITED KINGDOM---Ikon presents a solo exhibition by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2013. Comprising miniature paintings and site-specific installations – including new works made for Ikon – the exhibition is Qureshi’s first major presentation in the UK. The exhibition presents an array of Qureshi’s delicate miniature paintings adorned with gold and blood-red paint and depicting people, blossoms, colours, rain, leaves and abstract forms. In Self-Portrait (2009) the artist himself is enclosed in an oval medallion on a gold background holding a blossom surrounded by tiny dragonflies. [link]