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Sara Abri is one of the
artists featured by Gallery Mamak
Joy by Sara Abri Sara 2006; painting-acrylic, 70cm x 70cm
Biography: Sara Abri
Sara Abri was born in Tehran in 1982. She received her BA from the Azad
University of Fine Art where she studied painting. Abri has had several group
exhibitions including one in Las Vegas. By the age of twelve she had won several
awards as a child painter. Abri is not interested in taking stands on issues;
she wants to simply express in her own words 'that which is'. She paints her
formalistic works in order to comment on what she terms 'entities', like war. "I
don't want my viewers to take an objective perspective on war. I don't want them
to get stuck in making value judgements," Abri claims, "I simply want them to
see it. How they interpret it is no longer my concern." She not only forsakes
value judgements in her works but breaks all moulds in her belief that moulds
automatically create limitations. Abri's works rise to break free of all values
and norms by layering painting upon painting in vivid colors to carry the
attention of the viewer to that singular focal point where she leaves them
waiting to receive an answer, a solution. But they soon realize there is none
forthcoming for Abri is not out to deliver she is simply out to portray. Sara
Abri is presently living and working in Tehran.
Unity by Sara Abri Sara 2006; painting-acrylic, 240cm x 80cm
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