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Nicolas Moufarrege Recognize My Sign

ike many outliers of the 1980s, Nicolas Moufarrege challenged the boundaries of taste and tradition. A master appropriator who came to be admired for his eccentric woven tapestries clashing pop art with classical aesthetics, Moufarrege was as much an artist of his time as he was one who transcended it. Thirty-four years after his death from AIDS in 1985, his long-overdue institutional solo “Recognize My

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