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28 South Street: The Mayfair Home of Fatima & Eskandar Maleki

Dreweatts

Donnington Priory

Newbury, Berkshire

RG14 2JE

United Kingdom

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λ DANIEL SILVER (BRITISH B. 1972), UNTITLED, 2009

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MATTHEW DAY JACKSON (AMERICAN B. 1974), DRESDEN

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A PAIR OF LARGE FRENCH STEEL WALL MIRRORS, LATE 19TH CENTURY AND LATER

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λ PIA STADTBAUMER (GERMAN B. 1959), ANDROGYNE, TWO FIGURES

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THEASTER GATES (AMERICAN B. 1973), STAND-INS FOR A PERIOD OF WRECKAGE 10 & 24, 2011

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MAISON BAGUES; A PAIR OF ROCK CRYSTAL, CUT GLASS AND GILT METAL WALL LIGHTS

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Y A CARVED AND POLYCHROMED FIGURE OF A STANDING ATTENDANT

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A WROUGHT IRON TWO SEAT BENCH WITH MATCHING ARM CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF METAL WALL LANTERNS, 20TH CENTURY

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A WROUGHT IRON AND LEATHER TOPPED CONSOLE TABLE, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINTED PELMETS, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE PAINTED METAL WALL VENETIAN STYLE MIRROR, MODERN

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AFTER LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, THE SCULPTURE GALLERY

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λ HOSSEIN VALAMANESH (IRANIAN/AUSTRALIAN 1949-2022), CHAI, AS CLOSE AS I COULD GET, 1998

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λ HOSSEIN VALAMANESH (IRANIAN/AUSTRALIAN 1949-2022) CHAI, AS CLOSE AS I COULD GET, 1998 MDF, enamel paint, fluorescent light, Perspex, water, glass, tea Height 83cm (32½in.) Edition of 5, plus A/P. Saleroom notice: Please note the first line has been altered from the printed catalogue Hossein Valamanesh (1949-2022) was an Iranian-Australian artist particularly known for his work in sculpture and installation. Born in Tehran, Valamanesh emigrated to Perth after completing his artistic studies. He spent time in Aboriginal communities before settling in Adelaide, where he would rise to prominence. Valamanesh never lost sight of his native Persian culture, investing his works with commentary on identity and nationhood. The artist's œuvre is remarkable for its assured minimalism and use of natural materials, as well as poetry and calligraphic text. A learned, literary mind, Valamanesh never shrinks from grand ontological questions, employing circular motifs to reflect his belief in the unity of Man and nature. The artist suffered a heart attack in 1995, which prompted him to engage with themes of mortality and transience. Valamanesh is survived by his wife, Angela, with whom he undertook numerous public commissions. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Grey Noise, Dubai, Galerie Tanit, Munich, and the Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris. Valamanesh's work can be found in all Australian state collections, as well as the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, and the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere. He is the recipient of numerous awards, such as the Grand Prize at the 8 th Asian Biennial (1997) and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2014); in 2010, he was declared a Member of the Order of Australia. It is no coincidence that Chai, as close as I could get figures prominently on the cover of the artist's 2011 monograph, Hossein Valamanesh: Out of Nothingness . The installation calls forth familiar descriptors: spiritual, ethereal, poetic, understated. Visually inspired by a glass floating in a bubbly sink, Chai embodies the humility one has come to expect of Valamanesh's work. (1) In accessible formal language, this installation invites the viewer to resolve its title. Whereto is Valamanesh getting close? How does Chai answer this question? The artist's practice owes itself to many quarters: Arte Povera, Persian poetry, Sufi philosophy, Aboriginal Australia. The diversity of Valamanesh's references reflects his own composite identity, while his use of tea conjures up associations with trade and travel. Chai may be read as an eloquent and at least partly autobiographical commentary on migration. The tea hovers above the water, bathing in its light. The brightness and purity of this arrangement elevate the everyday to an almost religious experience, recalling the Islamic practice of wuḍūʾ and baptismal fonts. Chai is a monument to the transubstantial process of uprooting and resettling, inspiring a sense of what critics have termed 'cosmopolitan belonging,' fraught and challenging though it may prove. (2) Here, tea and water have achieved comfortable, amicable proximity, though they will never make contact. Perhaps - as the unmixed liquids imply - total assimilation is unlikely. The tranquil equilibrium of Chai suggests that this is no cause for regret. Rather, as Valamanesh's life and work demonstrates, cultural integration is possible, desirable even, when one settles in a new land without ever losing sight of the first. Here, the floating glass is held in delicate suspension, its contents recommending that we pause, sip, and breathe for a moment. As the great astrologer-poet Omar Khayyám once intoned, 'Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?' (3) This life is fleeting, yes, but so too is the fear of its end; Valamanesh invites us to embrace existence in all its beautiful fragility. Chai is not so much a memento mori , then, as a whispered carpe diem . To borrow the title of Valamanesh's first European retrospective, itself an allusion to Sufi poetry, Puisque tout passe : this too shall pass. 1. Mary Knights and Ian North, Hossein Valamanesh: Out of Nothingness (Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2011), 88. 2. Marsha Meskimmon, Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2010), 86. 3. Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , trans. Edward FitzGerald (United Kingdom: University Press of Virginia, 1997), 97.

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NED VENA (AMERICAN B. 1982), UNTITLED, 2012

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ANTHONY PEARSON (AMERICAN B. 1969), UNTITLED (POUR ARRANGEMENT), 2008

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A WROUGHT IRON THREE SEAT BENCH WITH MATCHING ARM CHAIRS

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λ BITA GHEZELAYAGH (ITALIAN B. 1966), FELT MEMORIES IX

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A SET OF THREE MORROCAN PIERCED METAL HANGING LANTERNS, 20TH CENTURY

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A MATCHED PAIR OF CARVED HARDWOOD AND METAL MOUNTED CHAIRS, INDIAN

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A CARVED AND GRANED WOOD DAYBED, 20TH CENTURY

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THEASTER GATES (AMERICAN B. 1973), STACK 6901.1, 2011

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λ CHRISTOPHER DEAN (BRITISH B. 1955), UNTITLED (ABSTRACT HEAD)

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GUIDO AGOSTINI (ITALIAN 1870-1898), RIVERSCAPE WITH FIGURES AND SAN MINIATO BEYOND

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NATHAN MABRY (AMERICAN B. 1978), MUDFLAP (WHATEVER)

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ARMEN ELOYAN (ARMENIAN B. 1966), UNTITLED (#87)

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A PAIR OF BRASS AND BLUE GLASS WALL UPLIGHTERS, FRENCH

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λ CHRISTOPHER DEAN (BRITISH B. 1955), UNTITLED (HEAD)

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A SET OF THREE BLACK PAINTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN BENCHES

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