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29/12/2011

Reza Azimian

Assar Art Gallery, Teheran

Assar Art Gallery is pleased to present False Feelings, an exhibition of new paintings by Reza Azimian.
Strongly influenced by the effects of modern communication tools on social behavior and the environment in which the artist resides, Azimian’s latest works unfolds as the continuation of his well sought after Download series which is a collection of large scale oil paintings that depict various characters and locations focusing on the artist’s personal interest in the negative psychological effects of modern interactions.

Reza Azimian’s paintings explore our changing culture and parallel effects these changes have on our identities and on our social conducts. What Azimian chooses as his subjects, he finds mainly on the internet combining them with many familiar codes and signs used by most of us daily via the virtual networks to express his ideas about the modern society. Through these paintings the artist imbues these images as if stripped off from their real characteristics, emphasizing on what he believes is a false and decietful behavioral and emotional codes that most of us today are naturally accustomed to use to define ourselves. The double identity that chartrooms, social networks and internet in general allows us to have, is a sickly phenomenon Azimian finds not only sad but unhealthy, causing us to lose sensitivity to reality and gradually changing our values in society.

False Feelings presents ten new paintings of various sizes from the Download series that have never been exposed before. In this collection Azimian tries to balance the abstract and realistic impulses on his canvases through his thickly applied oil paint and colours that very much characterizes his work.
Reza Azimian was born in 1977 in Hamedan, Iran where he still lives and works. He studies sociology, a subject that became his main focus throughout his career as a self taught painter. In recent years, his works have been exhibited widely, presented in art fairs worldwide and acquired by some important collectors both inside and outside Iran.

Born in 1977, Reza Azimian studied sociology and painting, subjects that became very much the focus of his professional career as an artist. He is a self taught painter and his work has gained him a lot of attention in the Iranian art scene in the past few years.

Image: Error 1, oil on canvas diptych, 180x180 cm left panel, 180x130 cm right panel, 180x310 cm overall, 2010

Assar Art Gallery
16 Barforoushan Alley Iranshahr St., Karimkhan Zand St. 15836 Tehran, Iran
Hours: Saturday to Thursday 11AM-8PM, closed on fridays

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