Kourosh Salehi,
Turquoise Letters, will be
at the Idea Generation Gallery, London, from 10 to 16 December 2009.
Kourosh Salehi will show a
collection of his paintings and film installations at the Idea Generation
Gallery, East London, 10 - 16 December 2009. Salehi is part of a group of
post-revolution Iranian artists who have merged East-Western traditions to
articulate a new language of exile. This exhibition, a collection of paintings
and video art, surveys the most recent work of this important painter.
Salehi's films, many of
which were shot in Iran - and which in the past have led to his arrest - are
both intense and dreamlike, evoking longing and reconciliation. They show a
temporal distortion of memory, and speak of the process of creating a personal
mythology. Each has a story to tell, and so have a more narrative based format
than many video artworks.
Born a champion
Oil and print on canvas
Similarly, Salehi's
paintings narrate an emotional severance from people, places and time. They tell
of a personal journey, patched together and re-told with passion and candour.
Images from the time of the Qajar dynasty to the early days of the Iranian
revolution are digitally collaged and painted to create works that are vivid in
tone, yet layered with vintage imagery. The viewer is placed as the protagonist
of the narrative, and engages in a dialogue with the ghost-like characters on
the canvas. The obscured letters which overlay the canvas, further engage the
viewer, as Salehi exhumes old photographs and correspondence.
Collectively, these works
illustrate Salehi's approach to painting, as he draws on filmic conventions to
generate an eerie but engaging narrative where, like a long held silence in a
melody, the missing pages play a significant role within the plot. The story is
not just about a journey, but how part of it was lost.
Mary go round
Oil and print on canvas
Kourosh Salehi's page on Candlestar's website:
www.roudart.com
The Idea Generation Gallery, 10 - 16 December 2009
Private
view: 10 December 2009
11 Chance Street
London, E2 7JB
+44(0)20 7749 6850
info@ideageneration.co.uk
Open: Monday - Friday, 10 am - 6 pm Saturday & Sunday, 12 - 5 pm
www.ideageneration.co.uk/generationgallery.php
Boy + Well
Oil and print on canvas
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