# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOBv8BsjkFn
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-31T17:12:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

For artist Kour Pour, challenging the Euro-American art historical canon has been a decade-long pursuit. In 2015, the artist began a research project titled “Re-Inventing Abstraction 1̶9̶1̶0̶-̶1̶9̶2̶5̶ ” that was later published as a zine and distributed for a 2017 exhibition at San Francisco’s Ever Gold Projects. 

The zine’s title puts a spin on the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) 2012–13 exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, which claimed the titular decade and a half as comprising the early history of abstraction and designated the genre as an invention of the West. For his zine, kourpour annotated the MoMA exhibition catalog’s essays with a yellow highlighter and a red-ink pen, correcting the authors’ short-sighted understanding of abstraction. 

Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry’s foreword for the catalog argued that “abstraction may be modernism’s greatest innovation” with its “radically new” works first appearing “quite suddenly” only a century ago. Pour responded to Lowry’s claims in the margins of the text with a simple question: “Really?” 

Read the full story by Tina Barouti at the link in bio.
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1 - Artist Kour Pour (photo by Errol Sabinano, image courtesy the artist) (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless otherwise noted) 

3 - Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases 

4 - Page from Pour’s “Re-Inventing Abstraction 1̶9̶1̶0̶-̶1̶9̶2̶5̶” featuring 1488 Persian miniature painting juxtaposed with Structuralist drawings 

5 - Kour Pour, “She Fell In Love With A Foreigner (BP)” (2024), acrylic, block ink, and tea on shaped canvases 

6 - Pour annotated and redacted portions of text for his zine “Re-Inventing Abstraction 1̶9̶1̶0̶-̶1̶9̶2̶5̶ ” 

#KourPour #GeometricAbstraction #IslamicArt #ModernArt

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