ARTFABETIC, the first dictionary devoted to living visual artists.
PARHIZKAR, Sourena (Behshahr/Iran, 1982)
Peintre, sculpteur, dessinateur et graveur. Prédilection pour l’abstraction, le figuratif, les paysages, les vues urbaines et l’expressionnisme abstrait. Formations : Université des Arts de Téhéran/Iran, Maîtrise de Peinture à Téhéran/Iran de 2005 à 2009 – Université́ de Strasbourg, Master d’Arts Plastiques de 2010 à 2014.
I was pleased to announce that after having received the ArtCité prize, I have participated as a guest artist in the Salon Artcité which will be held from September 21 to October 21, 2017 at the Hôtel de Ville de Fontenay-sous-Bois in side of Paris.
Peace whether considered as peace among people or as world peace and to any extent is only achievable when there is calm and reconciliation within each person. The external peace happens after the internal peace is reached and while art accompanies peace then art for peace is created.
The Art for Peace Festival attitude is to communicate and to reconcile just how it is defined in the eastern culture as tolerance. In doing so, it is to respect, to accept and to value the rich variety of cultures, the various styles of living and ways of expressing it.
It gets to develop by awareness, honesty, connection, freedom of speech, consciousness and opinion. Tolerance is to agree to disagree which makes peace possible and allows to replace war culture with peace culture.
What is this festival about?
Tolerance does not mean to agree with all but to give credit to the other party. This is not necessarily closing your eyes to your own advantages or giving away and forgiveness. Tolerance means embracing the fact that all human beings regardless of their differences in appearance, position, language, behaviour and values, are entitled to live in peace just as they are.
As part of the presentation of contemporary Iranian artists, I was invited by the Mojdeh gallery in Tehran to exhibit three works.
The exhibition, entitled "Around Recited", brought together the works of around twenty Iranian artists on the theme "between nightmare and dream".
Here are some photos of the exhibition that took place throughout the month of May 2017.
I had the honor of exhibiting a work at the Salon of the Society of French Artists which was held from February 15 to 19 at the Grand Palais in Paris .
To see 1 minute of video of the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français 2017 click here.
According to Martine DELALEUF, President of the Society of FRENCH ARTISTS, the Salon takes on board the initiatives, trends and artistic prospects that bring current art and contemporary artists to life.
Since 2006, the Salon des ARTISTES FRANÇAIS has returned to the GRAND PALAIS after renovation work, as part of Art Capital.
This artistic event brings together "historical fairs" which have gone through history beyond fashions and in which contemporary creation is expressed today.
Every year 2,500 artists exhibit their works and show the various trends in current art to a wide audience, directly, outside the commercial circuits.
NART (Kurdish TV)'s reportage from Paris, Grand Palais 's exhibition.
The Salon was founded in 1946 by the artists Sonia Delaunay, Auguste Herbin, Jean Arp... Relayed by passionate critics, the salon was a rapid success which presented both geometric and concrete art through artists such as Jean Dewasne, Victor Vasarely than non-figurative artists like Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Vieira da Silva, or Robert Motherwell...
From 1956, all the tendencies of abstraction are represented there, including forms of allusive figuration.
It is one of the main Parisian salons. It takes place every year in October in Paris.
In recent years, there are 350 to 400 artists per Salon - about 250 painters, 90 sculptors, 30 engravers as well as works on paper - drawing, photography.
For my first personal drawing exhibition in Bordeaux, I made a series of drawings drawing my inspiration from the natural and urban landscapes of Iran.
The works presented are those of the Black Forest series .
This is a short video of the process of creating the large drawing (36 m2) on the wall:
In addition, here are some photos of the opening and the exhibition.
In 2008, I was invited by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art to participate in a workshop.
On this occasion, I produced an acrylic on the theme of the revolution which subsequently entered the museum's collections.
The museum then wished to acquire the work that I had made to exhibit it at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran.
