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24 Oct 05

Shirazeh Houshiary Veil 3D Animation

HotBox Studios has started production on an animated installation entitled 'Veil' in collaboration with Shirazeh Houshiary.

Veil will be first presented within Shirazeh's exhibition at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, between February 18 and March 25, 2006.

The original version of Veil was created for the Random Dance Company in London, and premiered for the production Amu at Sadlers Wells Theatre in September 2005.

Houshiary's paintings are constructed fromrepeated words. Her early works centered on creating form, which emerged from the canvasses to reveal luminous surfaces.

Houshiary's animation titled Veil is created from the images in her paintings and attempts to reveal the hidden and the invisible. 

Itexplores the idea of absence and presence and was inspired by the Veil of St. Veronica by Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran (c.1635).

Houshiary has now developed the animation further and created an independent film from the stage production with the helpof 3D animator Mark Hatchard from HotBox Studios.

The paintings in this exhibition arerepresentative of Houshiary's continued interest in form, light and space achieved through meticulous layers and fine markings. 

Her first, large scale animation will also be projected during the exhibition.

The show is set to tour worldwide in 2006.

Further details and still images from Veil can be found via the link below:

Shirazeh Houshiary - Veil Animation

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