Navid Nuur
Untitled (Post Holocene)

2005–2020

EB108

Powder-coated, hand-forged metal, four-color ballpoint pen
Variable dimensions, approx. 70 x 50 x 8 cm

Edition of 12 + 3 AP, signed and numbered certificate

4.400 Euro

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Edition by Navid Nuur. Curved metal shapes in green, red, blue and black hang from a silver multi-colored ballpoint pen on a white wall. The shapes look like colorful doodles
Edition by Navid Nuur. Curved metal shapes in green, red, blue and black hang from a silver multi-colored ballpoint pen on a white wall. The shapes look like colorful doodles
Edition by Navid Nuur. Curved metal shapes in green, red, blue and black hang from a silver multi-colored ballpoint pen on a white wall. The shapes look like colorful doodles
Edition by Navid Nuur. Curved metal shapes in green, red, blue and black hang from a silver multi-colored ballpoint pen on a white wall. The shapes look like colorful doodles
Edition by Navid Nuur. 4 curved metal objects in the colors green, blue, black and red, which have the shape of scribbled lines, lie on a white background. At the bottom is a silver four-color ballpoint pen on which the metal objects can be hung.

    For the work-in-progress project Untitled (Post-Holocene), Navid Nuur spent a long period of time collecting pieces of paper from around the world with randomly scribbled lines and strokes in different colors and thicknesses, which customers had left behind in stationery stores when testing various pens for functionality. These drawings are the starting point for large sculptural forms made of hand-forged and powder-coated metal. For the edition, four of these random forms were selected and each executed three times in the four colors of a multicolor ballpoint pen – red, blue, green, and black. Combined into four-color groupings, four differently colored units were created. When hung one above the other, they create a visual bundle of lines. Each of these intertwined bundles of lines can be hung as a wall object on a four-color pen belonging to the edition. The title humorously alludes to postmodernism, referring to a geological era that is replacing our current epoch, in which everyday phenomena take on a new form, materiality, meaning, and function. “We still test our pens before we write. This wonderful coherence between different countries and cultures around the world is evident when I look at the test papers available in stationery stores around the world. Most of them have the same atmosphere, which is so amazing. Countries and cultures may change… but our need to calibrate our writing tools remains, so that we can always and forever tune in to each other. This edition is an integral part of this community beyond cultural appearances.”1
    Text: Eva Scharrer

    1 Navid Nuur in an E-mail to René Block in July 2022.