A group show of 10 young Iranian artists living and working in Iran has left the freedom to the artists to share their latest thought provoking ideas.
Curated by Vida Heydari
Opening reception at 7pm on Feb 22, 2012 – The exhibition will continue for three weeks at 1x1 art gallery in Al-Qouz, Dubai.
Amirali Ghasemi will be unveiling his new "Deconstructing White" series of digital photographs and graphics. Deconstructing certain objects, he is inviting us to unwind and find practical solutions against violence.
Mattresses, once a place for sweet dreams, love making and peace, have become cots of thorns and worries in Kambiz Sabri's works. Dry and non-resilient even the childhood memories have taken a new shape, filled with screaming voices wanting to erupt and let loose. Yet still not having lost the very essence of purity, his sculptures send us a message of hope that change is not so unattainable. Coming out of their confined self-made spaces, the men in Sabri's works are finding their way to new horizons and reaching their dreams.
Katayoun Karami's work is about breaking certain dogmatic behaviors. She is being the change she wants to see in the world by breaking her own image.
Mattresses, once a place for sweet dreams, love making and peace, have become cots of thorns and worries in Kambiz Sabri's works. Dry and non-resilient even the childhood memories have taken a new shape, filled with screaming voices wanting to erupt and let loose. Yet still not having lost the very essence of purity, his sculptures send us a message of hope that change is not so unattainable. Coming out of their confined self-made spaces, the men in Sabri's works are finding their way to new horizons and reaching their dreams.
Katayoun Karami's work is about breaking certain dogmatic behaviors. She is being the change she wants to see in the world by breaking her own image.
Kimia Rahgozar's silhouette of faces and bodies in waiting, all shot on one negative without manipulation, depict men and women in anticipation and uncertainty. One can feel their blank gazes without seeing their eyes.
Masculinity and femininity, childhood and adulthood, chaos and tranquility all inter-exist in Mahta Saghafi's imaginary wonderlands, bizarre toys and bodies brilliantly drawn up with exquisite choice of colors.
Mohsen Sadeghian's boxes depicting days and perhaps years of our lives clearly show the complexity of the artist's mind. "Love and Rage" is a story of conflict with hostility and war being a dominant and constant element and love and humanity trying to find its place. The blade-like figures that sometimes reminisce the poetic quills, at times are in an attempt to cut up the organic bodies which are trying to live through the hazy and dusty backgrounds of their environment and at times provide a smooth ride. One is not bound to find a conclusion to this battle through Sadeghian's work.
Niloofar Rahnama's children drawn on MRI papers, trying hard to illuminate their play, find it a struggle as the blue skies have been replaced by smog and gray. The playground is a diseased environment where one can not scape from. But these toy-like beings are still alive and have not given up hope on healing. Her work is a portray of the polluted minds and air of today's society and our lost dreams and plays.
Samira Alikhanzadeh looks for herself in old family pictures where she strategically has placed pieces of mirrors on the eyes of the people. Strangers or known, they each show her a part of herself unfamiliar to her at times. She reminds herself over and over again that we are each other's mirrors and one can see his own reflection in another person's eyes. She also questions the very idea of us carrying the past generations in our DNA and genes. And the story will go on.
The symbol of strength and courage, the eagle, has been reduced to bones and crucified in Sara Abbasian's marker drawings. It is difficult to capture the liveliness of these seemingly dead species in the pictures. One must see these works from close up.
Taha Heydari's paintings are about a dream of a warm conversation taken place in a cold city. A city, that although preserving its esthetics and identity, is frozen in time and cracking on the surface. The people of his dream are indifferent and oblivious of their surroundings but their conversations are hot and pulsating. Has this dream been going on for too long or is time man-made?
Masculinity and femininity, childhood and adulthood, chaos and tranquility all inter-exist in Mahta Saghafi's imaginary wonderlands, bizarre toys and bodies brilliantly drawn up with exquisite choice of colors.
Mohsen Sadeghian's boxes depicting days and perhaps years of our lives clearly show the complexity of the artist's mind. "Love and Rage" is a story of conflict with hostility and war being a dominant and constant element and love and humanity trying to find its place. The blade-like figures that sometimes reminisce the poetic quills, at times are in an attempt to cut up the organic bodies which are trying to live through the hazy and dusty backgrounds of their environment and at times provide a smooth ride. One is not bound to find a conclusion to this battle through Sadeghian's work.
Niloofar Rahnama's children drawn on MRI papers, trying hard to illuminate their play, find it a struggle as the blue skies have been replaced by smog and gray. The playground is a diseased environment where one can not scape from. But these toy-like beings are still alive and have not given up hope on healing. Her work is a portray of the polluted minds and air of today's society and our lost dreams and plays.
Samira Alikhanzadeh looks for herself in old family pictures where she strategically has placed pieces of mirrors on the eyes of the people. Strangers or known, they each show her a part of herself unfamiliar to her at times. She reminds herself over and over again that we are each other's mirrors and one can see his own reflection in another person's eyes. She also questions the very idea of us carrying the past generations in our DNA and genes. And the story will go on.
The symbol of strength and courage, the eagle, has been reduced to bones and crucified in Sara Abbasian's marker drawings. It is difficult to capture the liveliness of these seemingly dead species in the pictures. One must see these works from close up.
Taha Heydari's paintings are about a dream of a warm conversation taken place in a cold city. A city, that although preserving its esthetics and identity, is frozen in time and cracking on the surface. The people of his dream are indifferent and oblivious of their surroundings but their conversations are hot and pulsating. Has this dream been going on for too long or is time man-made?
Amirali Ghasemi | Iron, Deconstructing White Series | 2012 | Digital photograph & graphics, C-type print | 80 x 53 cm
Amirali Ghasemi | Gun, Deconstructing White Series | 2012 | Digital photograph & graphics, C-type print | 80 x 53 cm
Amirali Ghasemi | Knife, Deconstructing White Series | 2012 | Digital photograph & graphics, C-type print | 44 x 66 cm
Amirali Ghasemi | Handcuff, Deconstructing White Series | 2012 | Digital photograph & graphics, C-type print | 44 x 66 cm
Kambiz Sabri | A house on the other side of the night | 2011 | Fiberglass | 80 x 130 x 80 cm
Kambiz Sabri | Sometimes Happens | 2010 | Fiberglass | 80 x 125 x 75 cm
Kambiz Sabri | Childhood Dreams | 2010 | Fiberglass | 65 x 50 x 40 cm
Katayoun Karami | Have a break | 2012 | Digital print on glass | 205 x 163 cm
Kimia Rahgozar | He | 2010 | B&W negative medium format Photography, digital print on photo paper, laminated and mounted on 8mm wood | 100 x 100 cm
Kimia Rahgozar | She | 2010 | B&W negative medium format Photography, digital print on photo paper, laminated and mounted on 8mm wood | 100 x 100 cm
Kimia Rahgozar | Man | 2010 | B&W negative medium format Photography, digital print on photo paper, laminated and mounted on 8mm wood | 100 x 100 cm
Kimia Rahgozar | Woman | 2010 | B&W negative medium format Photography, digital print on photo paper, laminated and mounted on 8mm wood | 100 x 100 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 1 | 2011 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 70 x 50 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 2 | 2009 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 50 x 70 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 3 | 2011 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 70 x 50 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 5 | 2011 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 70 x 50 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 6 | 2011 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 70 x 50 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 7 | 2011 | Acrylic & colored pencil on Paper | 100 x 70 cm
Mahta Saghafi | Untitled 9 | 2011 | Mixed media on paper | 70 x 50 cm
Mohsen Sadeghian | Love & Rage | 2011 | Mixed media, Polyptich | 165 x 300 x 16 cm
Niloofar Rahnama | The world has stopped here | 2011 | Drawing, MRI Paper on Light Box | 22x16 cms per pc
Niloofar Rahnama | Still air | 2012 | Drawing, collage on light box | 110 x 260 x 4 cm
Samira Alikhanzadeh | Sweet Nightmare | 2011 | Digital print mirror fragments and acrylic on board | 100 x 140 cm
Samira Alikhanzadeh | #16 Family Album | 2011 | Digital print mirror fragments and acrylic on board; diptych | 300 x 300 cm Diptych
Samira Alikhanzadeh | Peony | 2011 | Digital print mirror fragments and acrylic on board | 120 x 170 cm
Samira Alikhanzadeh | Classmates | 2011 | Digital print mirror fragments and acrylic on board | 120 x 280 cm
Sara Abbasian | Untitled | 2011 | Mixed media on cardboard | 50 x 50 cm
Sara Abbasian | Untitled | 2011 | Mixed media on cardboard | 70 x 50 cm
Sara Abbasian | Untitled | 2011 | Mixed media on cardboard | 70 x 50 cm
Sara Abbasian | Untitled | 2011 | Mixed media on cardboard | 71 x 50 cm
Taha Heydari | Last Night 1 | 2011 | Acrylic on canvas | 110 X 150 cm
Taha Heydari | Last Night 2 | 2011 | Acrylic on canvas | 110 X 150 cm
Taha Heydari | Last night & a clock 1 | 2011 | Last night & a clock 1 | 65 X 75 cm
Taha Heydari | Last night & a clock 2 | 2011 | Acrylic on canvas | 65 X 75 cm
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