A show of works by the 2022 Nasher Prize winner is now on display at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
, selected by an international jury, the Iranian-born, Berlin-based artist is represented in works created just within the past year.Baghramian’s imagination has also been fertilized by works of other artists. In the Nasher show, she and Nasher curator Catherine Craft deftly intersperse a few works from the permanent collection.
Most of the major works here explore mass and varied surfaces of cast aluminum. Contrary to our usual expectations of the metal, these slabs are irregular in shape and density, as if the molten metal has been thrown at random to cool. What appear to be worn recesses, as if gnawed out by giant metal-eating organisms, are created by impressed molds of burnt Styrofoam.
Each panel includes a cutout, different on each side, with a photo of animal fur with feeding flies. Again, there’s that dialogue of organic and mechanical, the organized and the chaotic. These works are hung from slender stainless steel rods attached to the steel framework of the Nasher’s glass ceiling. Rugged chunks of cast aluminum serve as ballast. The facial connection is reinforced in a telling dialogue with Picasso’sBaghramian’s bodily postures are prefigured, in a sense, by two rugged Matisse nudes; her rough textures in Medardo Rosso’sassembles a smooth surfaced counterpoint.in the gallery to the left of the Nasher’s entrance .
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