Baltic: Rasheed Araeen

Rasheed Araeen's body of artwork has a very intense influence on generations of artists, as well as among others too. The exhibition at the Baltic is structured across five chapters starting from his early experiments painting in the 1950s and 60s when he was living in Karachi.The exhibition then moves on his more geometric and symmetric work following his arrival to London in 1964. Afterwards, it moves onto when Rasheed joined the Black Panthers movement in 1972 after becoming disillusioned by the racism that was occuring in Britain. In the 1980s and 90s Rasheed found an aesthetic that allowed him to combine abstraction and geometry with his political concerns.