Action 131: Dying Iranian Solider, 1987
Polychrome: Hand carved lime wood, glass, paint, steel
66 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm
2013
Action 132: Dying South Vietnamese Marine. Duc Hoa, Saigon, 5 August 1963
Polychrome: Hand carved lime wood, glass, paint, steel
68.1 x 43.2 x 30.8 cm
2013
Action 133: Dying American Solider. Baghdad, Iraq. Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Polychrome: Hand carved lime wood, glass, paint, steel
63 x 34 x 35.1 cm
2013
12 noon , Monday 5 August 1963
Location: Asia Society Museum, New York, 2018
The exhibition focuses on Aramesh’s series of limewood sculptures inspired and in dialogue with seventeenth-century Spanish Christian iconography of martyred saints. The four busts are hand carved in limewood, gesso and polychrome, this method was often used by the Spanish sculptors of the period.
Silk velvet and a custom designed wallpaper accompany the installation.