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Ali Alavi
Ali Alavi was born in 1982 in Tehran, Iran. He lives and works in Tehran. Alavi has exhibited extensively including shows in Amsterdam (Koffiehuisschilderijen) 2008, the Transform A Nation Project IAAB in Iran in 2006, the 4th Contemporary Painting Biennial in Tehran in 2006, Homa Art Gallery (New Generation Works) 2006, the 1st Drawing Annual in Karaj in 2006, Group exhibition in Haft Samar Art Gallery in Tehran in 2004-2005, Saadabad Art Gallery in Tehran in 2005, the 4th Charsoo-Honar Group Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Esfahan in 2005, Gallery’s Vending Treasures at the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation in Iran in 2005, the Barg Art Gallery in Iran in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Niavaran Cultural Centre in Iran in 2002 and the Shafagh Cultural Centre in Iran 2002.
“The Forgotten Ones
The Forgotten Ones, they have not really escaped from anybody’s hearts. As people and events are forgotten it should be noted that what has been forgotten was at some stage in the hearts of people and as time went on has been forgotten.
If The Forgotten Ones are reminded will they find their way back into the heart of people again? This is the temptation that makes people want to open up the long lost treasure chest and put their spoils on a blank canvas with the hopes of it re-entering peoples hearts.
The Forgotten Ones are not always people but events, moments of time and sometimes they are so real that you must give them space and time. The Forgotten Ones are a fact that has turned into an incident and they have happened. Let us suppose that on occasion we’ve turned the story to their liking, turned grey skies into blue, turned dead trees into green trees and maybe even sometimes planted trees in their empty gardens and sometimes given them love and sometimes sorrow.
The Forgotten Ones…I know…They are like an old picture that has been brought back to life.
The Forgotten Ones are true.”
Mr Masoud Behnoud |
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Ali Reza Adambakan
Ali Reza Adambakan was born in 1976 in Tehran. He graduated from Tehran’s Azad University with a BA in Painting.
He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East including group exhibitions in the Contemporary Painting Biennial in 1998 in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Uropart International Art Fair in Switzerland in 1999, Collected Memories at the Iranian Heritage Foundation Art Auction in London in 2007 and the Painting Biennial in Tehran in 2003 and 2005.
The settings and characters which Adambakan portrays in his work depict anxiety, fear and concern. His brushstrokes resemble knife wounds, his colours are dark and deliberate and they convey a certain restlessness that is present in the painter. What we see is a reflection of the artist’s inner feelings, the turmoil and agitation.
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Maryam Amini
Maryam Amini was born in Esfahan, Iran in 1977 and graduated with a BA in Painting from Tehran’s Art University.
Amini’s paintings are very sensual and have a lot to do with her own body. She uses curves and lots of movement that is related back to the architecture of Esfafhan. She studies and explores the interactions of forms that come together and how the integration of different forms works. Amini has succeeded in painting a realistic side of the contemporary Iranian woman. Her work captures a suspended space, making her audience weightless in the process. Her execution is refined, soft and precise. Her colours drape the panting like lace and her compositions revolve around the perpendicular axis of the canvas, guiding the eyes upward with the prick of delicate lines.
Amini concerns herself with straightforward sexuality, coition, sexual organs, and femininity. Her works are thematically contemporary, their creator appears as a cultural warrior. She is an artist who through the audacity and honesty of her brush strokes can give us an accurate picture of the state we find our selves in.
Amini has exhibited extensively including solo shows at Ave Gallery (Fitting Clothes to Pack Three Lovers) in Tehran 2008, Mah Gallery in Tehran in 2007 and Elahe Gallery in 2005. Group exhibitions include Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams at the Mall Gallery in London in 2008, Song of Bulbuls of Oil Rich Lands at the Esfahan Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007, Fine Art Museum Sadabad Palace, Tehran in 2007, Tehran Gallery in 2007, Broken Promises, Forbidden Dreams at Space Art Gallery in London in 2007, Collected Memories at the Iranian Heritage Foundation Art Auction in London in 2007, Mah Gallery in Tehran in 2007 & 2006, Mamak e Nourbakhsh Gallery in Tehran in 2005, Mah Gallery in Tehran 2005, Annual Exhibition of Esfahan’s Contemporary Painters in the Esfahan Contemporary Art Museum in 2003 and the Annual Exhibition of Esfahan’s Female Painters in Esfahan’s Contemporary Art Museum in 2002. |
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Omid Masoumi
Omid Masoumi was born in Tehran in 1984 and graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from Tehran's Art University. Masoumi has exhibited extensively including group exhibitions in Basel in 2008, Kuwait in 2008 and London in 2008 and 2007.
Masoumi's works use satire to show us the inner turmoil facing today's new generation. He paints generation X, a generation that is neither obsessed nor concerned with changing their world or the course of their history. He paints a generation that seem to submissively deal with existential dualities brought about by their lives: love and anger, attraction and repulsion, stillness and movement and pleasure and pain. Masoumi's use of visual elements paired with his combination of positive versus negative spaces has resulted in the expressive depiction of the subjective world of his generation.
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Ramtin Zad
Ramtin Zad was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. He lives and works in Tehran and has exhibited extensively including a solo show at Golestan Gallery. Group exhibitions have included Tehran, London, Dubai, Kuwait and Basel.
The paintings of Ramtin Zad are of an imaginary world that has been built with real elements and objects. When one first stands in front of the paintings one does not get involved with the subject matter as one can easily point to the paintings and say “this is an orange elephant”. It is from this instance that one enters an imaginary world. The mind gets involved with the elements of the artwork and you find yourself smiling whilst witnessing people trying to leave this labyrinth that he has created.
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Sanaz Alavi
Sanaz Alavi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1978. She lives and works in Tehran.
She graduated with a BA in Painting from Tehran University and an MA in Illustration from the Art University of Tehran. Alavi received the first prize in painting at the 2nd Visual Art Festival in Tehran in 2002. She has had 2 solo exhibitions and 19 group exhibitions.
The nameless characters in Alavi's paintings are accentuated by the nobility their presence communicates. A sense of undeniable stillness dominates her paintings. Frozen glances and still postures combined with the colour palette tell us that the characters rather than actually existing are traces of identities that have struggled to outlive the harms of their times. Alavi's work represents modernization, a modernization that has penetrated everything and affected every aspect of human life.
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