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Kourosh Salehi "Untitled" |
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Kourosh Salehi "Untitled" (Iran)
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Article 16: Right to Marriage & Family
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594 x 420mm lithogragh 607 x 428mm paper size
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| Artist Statement: Kourosh Salehi |
| "Linda Herrera describes his work in ‘The Middle East Times’ as follows: ‘Kourosh Salehi articulates the dialectic of the past with the present and captures the mood of an Iranian in exile. |
| By revoking his early training in Persian painting, and instinctively combing it with artistic schools and techniques learned in the West, a rich warm and original form emerges giving the paintings a unique quality, a distant yet analytical look, not so much relating to a particular place, but examining the human condition universally.The images of the veiled women are not so much about the cover dictated to women by Islam, but about the external faces of conformity that applies to all. Salehi concentrates on characters, or singular figures rather than crowds, in order to develop the psychological mood of the individual. |
| As an artist he deals with solitary feelings rather than mass social or political concerns. His works are not for the purpose of protecting any political ideology, nor do they represent any “ism” in art. The subjects, filled with intensity and melancholy combined with raw pride, represent the mood and even character of Iranian exiles longing to be absorbed by the sounds, and the earth of Iran. On a universal human level, however, his works reach out beyond physical borders to appeal to all those who search in purpose in any form of art." |
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