Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Finding My Way Home, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Kour Pour. This marks the artist’s debut with the gallery and his first Los Angeles solo exhibition in over a decade. The gallery is also thrilled to have recently announced representation of Kour Pour.
In Finding My Way Home, Pour introduces a series of stacked architectural paintings that engage with the formal language of modernist abstraction yet are simultaneously steeped in references to Persian miniature painting, Islamic architecture, and sacred geometry. These works serve as both inventive formal compositions and complex symbolic structures that incorporate a mix of referential fragments, personal narrative, cultural history, and multiple processes.
The imagery in these new works is drawn from Pour’s personal archive, tracing his family's journey from Iran to the UK, and later to the United States. These histories, however, are not merely personal; they resonate with larger geopolitical narratives—histories of control, revolution, and the fraught relationships between the countries of the Middle East and the West. Pour’s exploration of this shared past incorporates key historical events, including the founding of British Petroleum (BP) in Iran, the CIA-led coup of 1953, and the significant 1963 visit of American artist Frank Stella to Iran, an encounter that helped alter the trajectory of American abstraction.