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Behind Silent Curtains

"Cassius Al Madhloum is a Palestine-born painter, a recent entrance within the international art circuit, currently living and working in southern Iran. His oeuvre, empowered by the belief that "it doesn't take much to paint", conveys what the artist terms "verisimilitude as gentle magic". His work most often includes subjects drawn from Arab and Iranian modernism, evoking the ways in which the visual lexicon of the mass media employ such motifs. As for the work on display at A-WAL, in the words of the artist, "Behind Silent Curtains (the Rosler series) shows a Palestine villa with a Guernica wallcarpet. A copy of this painting of Picasso's hangs in the UN building in NY. When Colin Powell was requesting permission to bomb Iraq 2003, the US government ensured that it was concealed from the public by covering it with carpets." Tirdad Zolghadr