The Here and Elsewhere of the Omen at La Minoterie in Nay – SOURENA PARHIZKAR – PAINTINGS
From June 13 to September 8, 2024
After being deeply inspired by the patterns and repetitions of traditional Iranian architecture in his work, he eventually gave in to the hieroglyphics of vast spaces to reveal the cracks and fractures of a dehumanized earthly universe. The fate of nature and humanity appears closely intertwined through the exploration of organic materials in constant mutation. A fragile work that takes us through mutilated lands and the universality of an ecological message left untended. The artist uses cracking and dripping as allegories for the incident, the accident that destroys the ornamental patterns intrinsic to Eastern traditions. Trees are also a prominent feature in his work. What once appeared as the sacred matrix of a culture, a sign of balance and unity, transforms into a menacing monster. His polymorphic sculptures foreshadow rupture or crushing. The future seems bleak as things slide... What once seemed ancestral is no more, disappearing inexorably until strange figures turn into spikes. Should we see in this young artist’s work the timely warning of a prophecy: What if the situation has become irreversible?
Alain-Jacques Lévrier-Mussat, full text in french available here.
Strass'Iran Festival: DE LA TERRE ! (From the earth/soil) - SOURENA PARHIZKAR - PAINTINGS"
From March 19th to March 30th 2024
In the large hall of the Aubette, Sourena PARHIZKAR's paintings take us back to the earth. He is a man of the land/soil, originally from there. He studied and lived for a while in Strasbourg. As everyone knows, the earth of Strasbourg and Alsace remains attached to our shoes, and we always come back to it. Thus, he still has one foot here in Alsace.
This year, he participated as a guest artist. He chose to show you samples of three different series. He uses canvas as a support and acrylic paint with other materials to give relief, notably by incorporating earth. When he travels to different regions, he takes a sample of the earth from where he is and adds memories of the moment, symbolically.
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?
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.
