Sirous Namazi
dal 8/4/2009 al 16/5/2009
Segnalato da
8/4/2009
Sirous Namazi
Lunds Konsthall, Lund
Modules. Namazi's art may be situated in a wide field of three-dimensional expression, encompassing larger sculptures as well as smaller objects, but he also works actively with other artistic formats such as drawing and photography. His works are visually forceful and convincing. They are always executed with razor-sharp precision and an unfailing sense of scale.
Lunds konsthall Production is a three-year project featuring younger artists from
our own region. The basic idea is to offer them the possibility to produce and
present new works. The exhibition Modules. Sirous Namazi is the second instalment of
this series, inaugurated in the spring of 2008 with a presentation by the artist
Luca Frei.
Sirous Namazi's art may be situated in a wide field of three-dimensional expression,
encompassing larger sculptures as well as smaller objects, but he also works
actively with other artistic formats such as drawing and photography. His works are
visually forceful and convincing. They are always executed with razor-sharp
precision and an unfailing sense of scale.
Although it might seem controlled and well balanced at first, Sirous Namazi's art
opens up to readings that go far beyond the formal and secure. His own experience of
conquering new languages and forms of expression allows him to visualise boundaries
towards what is insecure and unsafe in our contemporary reality. He consciously
refers to art history, to architecture, spatiality and social planning, but his art
is just as much about demolishing and undermining as about constructing and
building.
Modules. Sirous Namazi comprises several newer works, two of which have been
specially produced for Lunds konsthall. In the front hall visitors are greeted by
the large sculpture Fragment (2009), suspended from the high ceiling. The permeable
'architectural' construction is composed of prefabricated metal beams from the
building industry. The tubular lights included in the structure expand it into a
light fixture that radiates frailty and displacement despite the generous
proportions. Version (2009), another hanging sculpture, is executed as a model,
twenty times smaller than the imagined original. Here spatial notions overlap,
hinting at fading memories of what might once have been home.
The exhibition also includes the drawing series Untitled (2009), which must be
considered a sketch for the two new works. Moreover, it comprises the two-part wall
object Untitled (Modules) (2009), the floor sculpture Container II (2008) and the
photographic series Interior (2007). These works allow us to sample Sirous Namazi's
different approaches in recent years, and they become a thematic and formal
counterpoint to the newly produced pieces.
Sirous Namazi was born in Kerman in Iran 1970, grew up in Lund and lives in
Stockholm. He studied at the Forum Art School in Malmö 1993-95 and at the Malmö Art
Academy 1995-98. He represented Sweden at the Venice Biennale 2007.
The exhibition series Lunds konsthall Production is realised with generous support
from Sweden's Future Culture Foundation.
For further information and to place orders, please contact Madeleine Malmsten, Project Coordinator, tel. +46 46 355294, email: madeleine.malmsten@lund.se
Press preview Thursday, 9 April at noon
Opening Thursday, 9 April at 6–8 pm
Lund Konsthall
Martenstorget 3 - Lund
Opening Hours:
Monday, 11 am – 11 pm
Tuesday, 11 am – 11 pm
Wednesday, 11 am – 11 pm
Thursday, 11 am – 11 pm
Friday, 11 pm – midnight
Saturday, 11 pm – midnight
Sunday, noon – 10 pm