Two works by Sculpture + Extended Media alumna Diana Al-Hadid (MFA ’05) were added to the permanent collection at San José Museum of Art on April 27, 2018.
“As SJMA looks forward to our 50th anniversary in 2019, we are delighted to continue to grow the permanent collection with works by artists of international significance,” said S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director. “These new acquisitions reflect the best in contemporary art as well as the diverse communities here in Silicon Valley.”
In the two works acquired by SJMA, Al-Hadid looks to the achievements of two Islamic polymaths: the 13th-century inventor Al-Jazari and the 15th-century mathematician and cartographer Matrakçi Nasuh. Pulling from their drawings, The Candle Clock in the Citadel (2017) appears to be both a ruin of Al-Jazari’s candle clock timepiece and a contraption in which metal balls emerge from the chest of a gilded falcon, rolling down a spiral armature to the floor. South East North West (2017) is what Al-Hadid calls a “blend of fresco and tapestry” with the woven pattern resembling a city map and recalls Nasuh’s panoramic miniatures of landscapes and urban centers across the Ottoman Empire. These works are the first by Al-Hadid to enter SJMA’s collection.
Read the full article in ARTFIXDaily.
Image: Diana Al-Hadid’s “The Candle Clock in the Citadel.” Photo credit: Object Studies. Credit via http://www.dianaalhadid.com/.
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