Reza Lavassani
dal 29/9/2011 al 18/10/2011
Segnalato da
29/9/2011
Reza Lavassani
Assar Art Gallery, Teheran
The artist has devised 5 large-scale papier-mache sculptures that engage their dimensions and the stories they represent with the space and the audience. Each of these sculptures is accompanied by a piece of poetry that has been the underlying inspiration to each sculpture.
Assar Art Gallery is pleased to announce Heyrat [Wonder] [1], an
exhibition of new sculptures by Reza Lavassani.
Known for his paintings and enigmatic papier-mâché sculptures, Lavassani
displays his own visualization of subjects inspired and taken from old
stories, fables, symbols and poems rooted in Persian culture. His work is
heavily influenced by old literature and poetry and this fascination with
the past, his sense of inventiveness and versatility has resulted in works
of intense drawings, oil paintings and amazing sculptures throughout his
career as an artist.
Imagination is Lavassani's ultimate force at work and lines and drawings
have a central role in everything that he creates. Current social and
popular topics have never been his concern but he focuses on interpreting
his subjects in a contemporary way. He brings his poetic subjects from
history and gives them a new aesthetic identity.
For the Heyrat series, Lavassani has devised five large-scale
papier-mâché sculptures in the gallery that engage their dimensions and
the stories they represent with the space and the audience. Each of these
sculptures is accompanied by a piece of poetry that has been the underlying
inspiration to each sculpture.
In this exhibition we wish to explore the artist's relationship to
mystical notions that are the creation of Persian poetic imagination. These
notions are still very much present in the lives of Persian speakers as
they are cultural codes inherited from history, geography, religion and
philosophy.
Reza Lavassani primarily works through drawing. His large collection of
drawings has turned into oil paintings on canvas and some into sculptures
that are mainly made with paper, a material he is fascinated by and is
ethically attached to.
Reza Lavassani was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran, where he lives and works.
His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and he has taken
part in many national and international group shows. Additionally his work
has been presented in numerous art fairs and has won several awards
worldwide.
[1] The sixth stage in seeking union with God in Islamic Mysticism
(Sufism).
Opening Friday, September 30, 2011
Assar Art Gallery
16 Barforoushan Alley
Iranshahr Str., Karimkhan Zand Str., Teheran
Saturday to Thursday 11am-8pm