Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will provide free guided tours for visitors with intellectual disabilities around Rasheed Araeen’s first Russian retrospective.
Members of Garage Inclusive Programs department have prepared special guided tours of the artist and political activist Rasheed Araeen’s solo show. Armed with a map around the exhibition, visitors will explore the diverse periods embraced by his practice, from the earliest realist pieces to the abstractions of later decades. The excursion will encourage the group to discuss art forms, mediums, and genres, as well as their interconnection with history and politics.
Rasheed Araeen was born in Pakistan in 1935. Soon after moving to London in the mid-1960s, he became one of the leading minimalist artists. He is, however, better known as a human rights advocate who critiqued clichés and stereotypes about “third world” peoples. Inspired by Soviet Constructivism, Araeen was looking for a universal, open to public visual language, eventually choosing geometric abstraction in both his painting and sculpture. Later Araeen would accomplish a creative contamination between his own identity and the key paths of twentieth century art.
To prepare for the tour, please use our social story to become acquainted with the main aspects of visiting an exhibition as part of a group of spectators.
Concluding the excursion, participants will have the chance to engage in a workshop.