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Hadi Tabatabai |
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Hadi Tabatabai’s work invites a close viewing. Working with great precision, using implements such as saws and spackle knives, and materials such as plywood, grout, thread, gypsum and acrylic paint, Hadi obsessively investigates the grid. He speaks of the grid as a crossroads, ‘where we all arrive in our quest for understanding the self and the self’s relationship with the infinite.’ Using an emotionally neutral palette of shades of white or grey, with very little hint of colour, Hadi creates in effect, three dimensional paintings straddling the realm of the pictorial and the sculptural. In his thread painting for example, the grey of the thread, matches the base below, so that his rectangles of thread disappear into the background, leaving thread an empty space to define the grid – positive and negative space become indeterminate. Hadi Tabatabai is Iranian born and lives and works in San Francisco’s Bay area.
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