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Master of Modernism

Karl Momen’s work is rooted in the most enduring characteristics of 20th century geometric abstraction. His architectonic forms are a timeless combination of Eastern and Western world views – the quest for spiritual transcendence through the contemplation of ideal form, grafted with the modernist concern with formalism and the expressive intent of the artist.

Momen’s abiding interest in abstraction began in the town of his birth, Mashad in Iran. His childhood teacher Yuri Popow, an early Russian avant-garde painter, introduced him to the work of the Russian …