Big Heech @ Aga Khan

Parviz Tanavoli's sculpture Big Heech at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto 2023:

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto:

Afghanistan My Love

From the exhibition Afghanistan My Love currently at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto ...

Shaheer Zazai:

ArtLords:

SoundBook Architecture vs Moraqqa'

Amnon Wolman's SoundBook - Architecture at Koffler Gallery, Toronto 2014:

From 16th century Iran, Mohammad Rahim's Album (Moraqqa') Leaf at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto 2014:

From 16th century Iran, Shah Mahmud al-Neyshaburi's Album (Moraqqa') Leaf at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto 2014:

Miller + Harruthoonyan

Lee Miller at K20, Düsseldorf 2017:

Osheen Harruthoonyan at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto 2018:

HERE

From the exhibition HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists currently at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto ...

Brette Gabel's Blanket:

Derya Akay's Resin, Lath, And Everything Else:

Dawit L. Petros's Strategic Withdrawal:

Dorothea Rockburne's Locus Series Nos. 1-6:

Elizabeth Zvonar's Mystic Mountain:

Zadie Xa's YZilla The Witch Of Flyness In Green Jade City:

Jaret Vadera's When A Story Becomes A Memory:

Vadera's THIS THAT AND THE THIRD:

Vadera's Diseases Of The Eye:

Vadera's Ascent:

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto has a new museum opened just last month.  Aga Khan Museum, a museum of Islamic arts and culture, is a Fumihiko Maki design.  The display of geometry in the architectural design is stunning.

The Garden Of Ideas

From the inaugural exhibition The Garden Of Ideas: Contemporary Art From Pakistan now at the newly opened Aga Khan Museum, Toronto ...

Bani Abidi:

Abidi for the 8th Berlin Biennale at Museen Dahlem, Berlin 2014:

Nurjahan Akhlaq:

David Chalmers Alesworth:

Alesworth for the 8th Berlin Biennale at Museen Dahlem, Berlin 2014:

Aisha Khalid:

Atif Khan:

Imran Qureshi:

A Garden within a Garden

I was immediately drawn to his distinctive style when I first saw Imran Qureshi's works in Berlin last year.  I was disappointed to find that I just missed his roof garden commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by a few days when I visited New York last fall.  I couldn't believe that he has come to Toronto.  His commissioned work for the garden of Aga Khan Museum brought me to this newly opened museum of Islamic arts this past weekend.  I'll write about the museum and its exhibitions later.  This post is exclusively about Qureshi and his outdoor painting The Garden Within.

Details of one of Qureshi's miniature paintings currently on view inside the museum: