Ahmed Alsoudani: Cut of Time
Artist: Ahmed Alsoudani Title: Ahmed Alsoudani: Cut of Time Essay: Raphael Rubinstein, Strange Beauty: The Drawings of Ahmed Alsoudani Foreward: Adonis, Painting's Horizon, Meanings Expanse, translated by: Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD Year: 2021 ISBN: 978-0-89797-238-3 Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Hardcover, 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 99 pages, 37 color plates Published on the occasion of Ahmed Alsoudani’s third solo show with Marlborough Gallery, Cut of Time explores the artist’s new series of works on paper of the same name, which borrows its title from a text by the French-Egyptian writer Edmond Jabès (1912-1991). The series of drawings in acrylic, pen, and ink offers a new, scaled down glimpse of the artist's oeuvre, having found himself working within the spatial constraints of a domestic space smaller than his usual studio accommodations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing, after all, has always formed the physical and emotional underpinning of Alsoudani's work,