Hossein Khosrojerdi - Cogito Ergo Sum
and
Mehdi Saeedi - Black & Red & White
Exhibition: 21
January - 21 February 2009
Xerxes Fine Arts
1 St. James's Market, London SW1Y 4SB
& 52 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RP
www.xerxesfinearts.com
(Exhibition spaces are adjacent to each other)
Private View: 20 January 2009, 18:00 -
20:00
Organised by:
Xerxes Fine Arts
with the promotional support of
Iran Heritage Foundation
Gallery of Works:
Hossein Khosrojerdi -
click here
Mehdi Saeedi -
click here
Hossein Khosrojerdi
is a leading Iranian artist and designer and a noted historical figure. He was
born in Tehran, Iran, in 1957 and was educated at the Beaux Arts School of
Tehran, receiving a diploma in 1975, and at the Fine Arts Faculty of Tehran
University, from which he received a degree in 1985.
Sleep of Five by
Hossein Khosrojerdi -
© Xerxes Fine Arts
Khosrojerdi has been exhibited in numerous museums and has received numerous
prizes and accolades, including the Grand Prize of the Sharjah Biennial in 2001.
Hossein Khosrojerdi was at the forefront of Iranian political activism in the
1970s and 1980s, and following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, he was designated
the official artist of the newly established Islamic Republic.
Demise of Abadan
Hossein Khosrojerdi - © Xerxes Fine Arts
Khosrojerdi's canvases vacillate between the surreal and the expressive. He is
amongst those of his generation in Iran who moved away from the Eastern focus on
aesthetics in the arts. It is the concept behind his works which is
Khosrojerdi's mode of, and reason for, artistic expression. On many levels his
art is philosophical, exploring the notions of thought, remorse, regret and
introspection, and above all, the importance of humility and self awareness.
The historical relevance of Khosrojerdi's art, and its seminal importance,
cannot be understated, drawing inevitable parallels to the socio-cultural and
political influences of Jacques Louis David and Kazimir Malevich.
Mehdi Saeedi is an internationally renowned
artist and designer. His aesthetics have become a mainstay of design in many
regions, especially in those using the Arabic and Iranian scripts as their
alphabet.
Starboard by Mehdi Saeedi © Xerxes Fine Arts
Born in Tehran, Iran
in 1979, Saeedi was educated and trained at Tehran's Malekeh Ashtar school of
graphic design, at Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts and at the
University of Cambridge.
Mehdi Saeedi is emblematic of Iran's prominence and regional dominance in
photography, graphic design and poster art. Iran's political dynamism and
wholesale social changes throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s, her role as an
ideological source since 1979 and her national psyche and propaganda art during
the Iran - Iraq war have all helped Iran and her artists to acquire a focus, and
then a forte, in those media. The new Iran's maturity and post war peace and
prosperity have only highlighted these strengths.
Starboard by Mehdi Saeedi © Xerxes Fine Arts
Saeedi's art draws inspiration from the traditional Eastern focus on the
aesthetic and from his own expertise with the Perso-Arabic script. He uses
optical opportunities presented by the dancing and sensual nature of the Perso-Arabic
script to provide a wholly conceptual approach to contemporary art.
While earlier futurists such as Giacomo Balla, Victor Vasarley and Bridget Riley
manipulated the geometry of form and space, Saeedi uses the amenable Perso-Arabic
script, and the distinctly Iranian Nastaliq and Siah-Mashq, to induce the
notions of movement, speed, velocity, space and colour, and to create optical
illusion of all sorts.
Dates and Times:
21 January - 21 February 2009
Tuesday-Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturdays 11:00 - 16:00
Admission free
Enquiries
Xerxes Fine Arts
Tel: +44 (20) 7839 3033
Fax: +44 (56) 0209 4024
www.xerxesfinearts.com/
Email: Enquiries@xerxefinearts.com
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