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In celebration of 2022, the Year of the Tiger, COUNTY is pleased to present Tiger Paintings, a solo exhibition by Kour Pour.
Visually hypnotic and historically astute, Kour Pour’s Tiger Paintings reveal forgotten connections among East Asian, European, and Persian art-making traditions, using the tiger motif to remap our understanding of cross-cultural exchange. Pour’s strong sense of shape and shadow recalls German Expressionist aesthetics, and his pulsating stripes build upon Bridget Riley’s experiments in perceptual abstraction. The tigers themselves have journeyed across multiple …