Aicon is pleased to announce ‘Delicately Does It,’ a group exhibition that focuses on the work of several artists who…

Aicon is pleased to announce ‘Delicately Does It,’ a group exhibition that focuses on the work of several artists who have spent their careers mastering their craft in impossibly complicated and intricate ways, primarily on and with paper. For these artists, paper can be both surface and medium, fragile, and impervious. Through precise actions such as cutting, folding, etching, and dying, the artists manipulate the materiality of paper and demonstrate its various properties while allowing their labor-intensive language to develop. Oftentimes meditatively repetitive and meticulous, these works thrum with ritualism and geometry. ‘Delicately Does It’ is about the spontaneous artistic processes and journeys artists embark on without knowing where they might conclude. The more you look at these works, the more you are pulled into their intimate worlds of wonder and curiosity.

‘Delicately Does It’ features works by Yasi Alipour, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Sathi Guin, Zarina Hashmi, IMAGINE (aka Sneha Shrestha), Waqas Khan, Youdhisthir Maharjan, Ghulam Mohammad, and Safdar Ali Qureshi. It will be on view in the second-floor galleries from May 23 through June 29. More details coming soon!

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, ‘Untitled (Calligraphy 10),’ 1980 (detail). Image courtesy of James Cohan Gallery. Photography by P. d’Heurle.
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