Wolf Panel
Parasol Unit, London
Installation view, Wolf Panel, Parasol Unit, London, 2013.
Installation view, Wolf Panel, Parasol Unit, London, 2013.
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Paradise Row is pleased to present Wolf Panel a new series of works by Shezad Dawood especially conceived for his solo show. Comprising textile paintings, sculptures and neon work, Dawood’s installation plays with the gallery space suggesting doubling and assonances.
Seduced by an ambiguous Harvest Moon, the visitor is introduced into a suspended mysterious eco-psycho-landscape inhabited by the ghostly figure of the wolf, mythological omen of destruction, war and death.
In a conceptual balance between the decorative and the perverse, the treasured still life sculptures function as vanitas evocative of a sense of emptiness. Here the predator becomes the prey like in a shamanic journey or 'wolf trance' of transition to undergo a spiritual re-birth. Through this transformation knowledge and consciousness emerges.
Wolf Panel I, 2013. Acrylic on vintage textile, 142 x 195 cm.
Wolf Panel II, 2013. Acrylic on vintage textile, 118 x 164.5 cm.
Wolf Panel III, 2013. Acrylic on vintage textile, 142.5 x 125 cm.
Wolf Panel IV, 2013. Acrylic on vintage textile, 112 x 143 cm.
Wolf Panel V, 2013. Acrylic on vintage textile, 155 x 115 cm.
Cities of the Interior, 2013. Bronze, Lapis Lazuri, 5 x 9.5 x 6 cm.
Harvest Moon, 2013. Wall-mounted neon, 75 x 50 cm.
My Life as a Dog, 2013. Bronze, 29 x 16.5 x 8.5 cm.
Soon the Fence Dissolves, 2013. Bronze, 28 x 17.5 x 11 cm.
The Moon's Shadow, 2013. Bronze, 31.5 x 18 x 11.5 cm.