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Pine Needles

Pine Needles

© 2015 Caline Aoun

Pine Needles
Pine Needles
ArtistLebanese, born 1983
CultureLebanese
Titles
  • Pine Needles
Date2015
Medium3,800 cast copper alloy pine needles
Dimensionsdimensions variable
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Chris Urbanczyk, with matching funds from Chevron, and by the Museum Collectors
Object number2016.92
Not on view

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Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Grey Noise, Dubai, UAE, 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryI Spy with my Little Eye: An Emerging Generation of Beirut Artists, The Mosaic Rooms, London, July 11 – August 22, 2015

Remote Local, Art Basel Statements (Grey Noise), Basel, Switzerland, June 18 – 21, 2015

Published References “I Spy With My Little Eye,” Wall Street International, July 9, 2015; http://wsimag.com/art/16569-i-spy-with-my-little-eye Maya Jaggi, “Art and Lebanon: beauty amid the rubble,” The Financial Times, July 31, 2015; http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/710597f4-3450-11e5-bdbb-35e55cbae175.html Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, “Burgeoning Art Scene of Beirut Spotlighted in London Exhibition,” Artnet, July 8, 2015; https://news.artnet.com/art-world/beirut-artists-exhibition-london-314408 Chiara Pilati, “Art Basel 2015: le opera d’arte da ricordare (e perché),” Marie Claire, June 23, 2015; http://www.marieclaire.it/Attualita/news-appuntamenti/art-basel-2015-foto#1 Färber, Britta and Murtaza Vali, "Caline Aoun: Seeing is Believing," Deutsche Bank, Berlin, and MAXXI--Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2018

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