2011
Haunch of Venison, London
Softcover + dust jacket
64 pages
310 × 240 mm
Ahmed Alsoudani came to the United States after fleeing from Iraq in the mid-1990s. He is best known for his vividly colored and surreal acrylic and charcoal canvases, in which distorted, grotesque faces and body parts portray the horrors of war. This motif draws on his own experiences of devastation and violence, evoking a universal experience of conflict and human suffering.
[Wikipedia]
Produced to accompany Iraqi-born painter Ahmed Alsoudani's first UK exhibition, featuring a series of new paintings characterised by Alsoudani's reflections on human conflict.
The laminated book cover is wrapped in a translucent dust-jacket with the title foil-stamped in black. Throughout the plates, the work titles are reproduced in a variation of colours lifted from each of the featured works.
Text by Suzannah Biernoff.
