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Farhad Moshiri: First snow
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to announce First Snow, an exhibition of recent work by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Running from 27 January to 17 March 2018, this is the second solo show of the artist at our Salzburg gallery.
With First Snow Moshiri introduces a new visual grammar in his work. For the first time, the artist is using his own photographs as a starting point for his compositions. The black and white photographs of snowy trees have been taken by the artist in a forest near his studio, in the city of Lavasan outside Tehran. Their graphic quality led Moshiri to confront with abstraction, while enhancing the vibrant texture inherent to his bead-woven works. First drawn on canvas before being embroidered with black and white beads by Iranian craftsmen, the high contrast in the landscapes reveals a cinematic style similar to the one found in the photographic work of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016).
As Moshiri recently stated in an interview: 鈥淚t was never my intention to show the differences between Iran and America. When I got up in the morning and saw everything covered with a layer of fresh snow, I grabbed my camera and went outside. What I was seeing in my viewfinder was a complex composition not unlike Jackson Pollock鈥檚 splash paintings. That set the tone for the entire photo shoot, which was capturing a powerful composition, void of any cultural symbols."
Bare of all artifice, Moshiri鈥檚 black and white compositions invite to contemplation. There is also an aesthetic joy and a tactile softness in the dream-like quality of the landscapes, which walk the thin line between abstraction and figuration but also between fantasy and reality.
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to announce First Snow, an exhibition of recent work by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Running from 27 January to 17 March 2018, this is the second solo show of the artist at our Salzburg gallery.
With First Snow Moshiri introduces a new visual grammar in his work. For the first time, the artist is using his own photographs as a starting point for his compositions. The black and white photographs of snowy trees have been taken by the artist in a forest near his studio, in the city of Lavasan outside Tehran. Their graphic quality led Moshiri to confront with abstraction, while enhancing the vibrant texture inherent to his bead-woven works. First drawn on canvas before being embroidered with black and white beads by Iranian craftsmen, the high contrast in the landscapes reveals a cinematic style similar to the one found in the photographic work of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016).
As Moshiri recently stated in an interview: 鈥淚t was never my intention to show the differences between Iran and America. When I got up in the morning and saw everything covered with a layer of fresh snow, I grabbed my camera and went outside. What I was seeing in my viewfinder was a complex composition not unlike Jackson Pollock鈥檚 splash paintings. That set the tone for the entire photo shoot, which was capturing a powerful composition, void of any cultural symbols."
Bare of all artifice, Moshiri鈥檚 black and white compositions invite to contemplation. There is also an aesthetic joy and a tactile softness in the dream-like quality of the landscapes, which walk the thin line between abstraction and figuration but also between fantasy and reality.
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