Shezad Dawood
The Bestower, 2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth
163 x 51 x 51 cm
London based artist Shezad Dawood’s British and Pakistani rootsare reflected in his works. Appropriating many of his ideas from modern European and American aesthetics, Dawood generates a critical examination of identity. This series of sculptures are made of neon, entangled in tumbleweed and placed on aluminium plinths. The Bestower, The Protector, The Judge and The Majestic, utilise traditional scripts that radiate from the centre of a ball of tumble-weed, reflecting an element of the divine.
Shezad Dawood
The Protector, 2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth
163 x 51 x 51 cm
Shezad Dawood
The Judge, 2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth
163 x 51 x 51 cm
The neon works reject the rhetoric of a clash of civilisations, looking at a formal synthesis between East and West. Dawood’s works deliver a very complex set of notions that arise from symbols that are inherent to the two cultures that Dawood is familiar with.
Shezad Dawood
The Majestic, 2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth
163 x 51 x 51 cm