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Rasheed Araeen
Pakistani and British, born 1935
1969
A work in painted wood made of seven narrow vertical lattice modules that repeat a simple truss-like form to investigate rhythm, seriality, and the boundary between sculpture and painting.
What hits you first is the strict, march-like rhythm of seven ladder‑like strips—alternating orange and earthy brown—whose diagonal X‑bracing creates a vibrating geometric pattern and crisp shadows against the white wall.
By reducing structure to repeated wooden trusses, Araeen engages Minimalist and concrete vocabularies while expanding them into a transnational critique of modernist abstraction that foregrounds perception, repetition, and cultural position.
Medium
Wood and painted wood, in 7 parts
Dimensions
Overall 67 x 87 x 4" (170 x 221 x 10 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds
Accession
724.2018.a-g
Palette
Exhibitions
