Private View: Friday 8 April 2011, 6:30 - 8:30 pmIn his first solo show in Europe, Iranian artist Hesam Rahmanian
presents a body of paintings that, in the main, respond with a mordant and mournful wit to the repression and violence inflicted by the current theocratic regime in Iran on the country and its people. Since the beginning of the year, however, Rahmanian has broadened his scope to include the uprisings and revolutions that have sprung up throughout the Middle East, collectively described in the media as the 'Arab spring'.
Rahmanian uses
the free, imaginative space afforded by painting to construct visual
collages, allegories and metaphors that provide an alternative critical
response to that provided by the documentary. Instead these fictive
spaces allow the symbolic debasement and abuse of those in power.
Fluid, gestural and painterly, Rahmanian's style manifests the spontaneous energy of popular discontent.
Trained in Iran, Rahmanian studied, at different times, under
Mohammed Ehsai and Ahmad Amin Nazar. After a period in the U.S.
Rahmanian moved to Dubai, where he works alongside
a number of other exiled Iranian artists. His first solo show, 'Hit Me With Your War Tune' was staged at Traffic, Dubai in 2010.
Rahmanian was recently announced as one of eight finalists for the MOP CAP 2011 that celebrates and promotes Iranian Contemporary Art, and will be showing in a group show of the finalists at the Royal College of Art, London in October 2011.
For images of works in the exhibition please
click here.
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