Art Statement:
I incorporate nature and human life to express my personal vision through my art. To me, art is a necessity. I create a new reality abstracted from nature including human life. Through art, a new world is born in which our dreams become visible. I keep digging into my deep cultural roots to grasp my identity. This is how I understand the world and share my ideas with others with the hope of fostering a more civilized and advanced community. Now after 40 years, I understand how science, politics and art have interchangeably engaged in my entire life.
The artist is to create a new reality out of the actual life based on her or his inner voice. Therefore creativity and the life experience are the main source of artistic creation. My goal is to study the roots of the cultures I am living in as my original inspiration, but then to break the rules in order to create and discover new realities. I strive to be a contemporary artist, however remain original as well.
Arts education, promotion and leadership
i) The principles of visual literacy: Public Visual Awareness program
After many years of study and practice I believe that the visual language could be thought similar to other languages of art like literature and music. Visual language is essential for every body who is willing to understand or communicate visually with the works of art. Not every drawing or painting has necessarily artistic value. Visual Language is not only for artists and art students, its for every body. Public arts education raises the quality of our cultural standards and reduces the public ignorance in the society.
ii) International and Multicultural Artists Network
To create an international and multicultural Artists Network was first a dream. I founded WACA the "Web Association of Canadian Artists" and the "Artpars " to sponsor the Multicultural and International Arts And Cultural Network. The following national and international projects gave me a confidence to achieve my goals.
1-Art for Peace
This project was first started in September 2002
in Artpars Gallery -Park Royal and was on the Tragedy of " 911, 2001 in New
York".
2- Beyond the Art of Illumination: The Contemporary Art of Iran:
This project was initiated by Darab Shabahang through
WACA (The
webassociation of Canadian Artists) and NVCAC (The North Vancouver Community
Arts Council) to host an international Art Exhibition with the contribution of
the prestigious
SIP (Society of Iranian Painters) member artists andsponsored by the
Musium of
Contemporary Arts in Tehran
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Projects: I have many projects in mind to achieve my goals, here are those I have already been involved with: i) To study the roots of Persian culture through visual arts and music to apply in my contemporary painting and music. Lack of identity or originality has been a barrier in the contemporary art
of Iran. For example, Henry Matisse learned so much from Persian Miniature
in his original style but he still remained a French artist. This was an act
to create a link; to join the universal language of contemporary visual arts
while remaining original too. 1- In my first part of this project, I got involved in a nostalgic relationship between the past and present in Persian painting. I have extensively studied one of the most important period of Persian classical painting called "Persian Miniature" or "Negargari". I was drawn to the traditional Persian painting style, specially those belonging to the "Shahnameh " the book of Kings, ordered by "Shah Tahmasbe Safavi". These paintings partly are kept in the Metropolitan museum of art in New York. I studied these particular masterpieces of Persian Miniature paintings not only because of the brilliant colors and the stylized line drawings known as "Ghalamgiri" but mostly because of the abstract visual elements used in creating spiritual virtual spaces. Although they illustrated history, poetry and literature in this Iranian book, ordered by Kings and their Royal families, but artists had their own philosophy and aesthetics independent of their employers. In their art, they created a new virtual-spatial relationship that could never be found in real life; a spatial relationship independent of time and space. The viewer has a chance to explore and travel in the paintings, discovering countless stories. In fact, the story was an excuse to visually experience the journey in a new world created by the artist. They never used the physical perspective, the real people or objects. They followed the Persian philosophy, a spiritual belief system so called "Erfan". Rumi the great Iranian poet was one of the pioneers of this philosophy. I have been deeply involved and learned a lot to take advantage of aesthetics of these "Negargari" paintings. 2- My next task was to continue to explore the philosophy and spiritual experience of the Persian classical music in the past to better understand the aesthetics of our arts and compare Persian traditional music with that of the Persian traditional painting and other crafts such as rugs, ceramics and ornaments etc. To learn and compare the artistic language in music, painting and literature belonging to the same culture. ii) The “Immigration “ a subject of my life. Migration of salmon another version of the same theme. iii) Portraits to include the objects and values associated with the person's life to appear in the painting. iv) Abstracts from nature using digital photography I have lots of pictures taken by my digital camera to use them for a series of digital paintings, some of them will be ready to publish on the Internet. |
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