Lot 547: Endless Prayers VI

Endless Prayers VI mixed media on paper, framed signed "KAMI 08" (bottom right), executed in 2008 106 x 76cm (41 3/4 x 29 15/16in).

2008106x 76cm

: Property from a private collection, Switzerland Acquired from Gagosian Gallery, New York

"Iranian-born painter YZ Kami's work addresses philosophical and devotional themes, manifest in figurative and abstracted approaches. Acclaimed for his large, quiet canvases that invoke the ineffable and sublime, he has shown with galleries worldwide including New York's Gagosian and London's Parasol Unit. He is in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. This appeal is partly due to his compelling meditations on religious iconography - beautifully articulated in the 'Endless Prayers' series, where traditional calligraphic forms constitute pan-religious iconography, most frequently domes and crucifixes. As well as geometrical abstractions, his vast, absorbing portraits of friends and strangers echo a profound grasp of humanity and the individual in an infinite, unknowable universe, in an ongoing spiritual quest for the sublime." - Arsalan Mohammad