Shezad Dawood - Contemporary Artists

The Majestic

The Majestic The Saatchi Gallery
 

Shezad Dawood

The Majestic

2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth

163 x 51 x 51 cm

Dawood describes his attempt to formally represent notions of the divine as strongly as he represents something of the formlessness and abstraction at the heart of modern America. The disheveled tumble-weed balls that are anchored into each plinth exist as symbols of time. The sculptures also reference the history of the American West, acknowledging the rise of a new kind of social religion embedded in bold patriotism.
 
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