{"product_id":"someone-like-you","title":"Someone Like You","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished to accompany Salman Toor's first solo museum exhibition in \u003cbr\u003eEurope, at the Courtauld Gallery, London, this handsome publication offers \u003cbr\u003enew insight into the artist's iconic, thought-provoking and often humorous \u003cbr\u003epaintings. Exploring human interactions, as well as the desire and struggle to \u003cbr\u003eexperience a sense of belonging, Salman Toor: Someone Like You sheds fresh \u003cbr\u003elight on Toor's work, addressing his manifold references and illuminating the \u003cbr\u003ecrucial role that drawing plays in his practice as a painter.\u003cbr\u003eSalman Toor is well-known for \u003cspan id=\"js-showResume\" class=\"showResume\" style=\"display: inline;\"\u003ehis vibrant paintings that represent people in \u003cbr\u003eshared moments of friendship and love, as well as experiencing solitude and \u003cbr\u003ealienation. The characters that populate Toor's painting are fictional but rooted \u003cbr\u003ein personal experiences and memories. Toor says that his paintings 'depict \u003cbr\u003equeer and immigrant lives that straddle different cultures and inhabit the \u003cbr\u003etension between intimacy and exposure, belonging and estrangement. What it \u003cbr\u003emeans to find a community, but also the daily costs associated with visibility.'\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1983, Toor trained in the United States. \u003cbr\u003eHe currently lives and works in New York. He has had major exhibitions \u003cbr\u003einternationally, including his acclaimed first institutional solo exhibition at \u003cbr\u003ethe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020-21). More recently, he \u003cbr\u003eparticipated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia \u003cbr\u003e(2024). The Courtauld's exhibition will be Toor's first solo museum show in \u003cbr\u003eEurope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Courtauld Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57741972472148,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/someonelikeyou.jpg?v=1792505735","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/someone-like-you","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}