There is a multi-aspect character to the work of Hengameh Fouladvand. Her art making is not limited to painting and drawing. She is also a writer, art critic, curator, and a researcher. She considers all as a process of art making. Hengameh Fouladvand’s new paintings are made out of her scratched notes and discarded torn out hand writings. In these manuscript series, her scratched hand writings which have changed character and become part of the whole composition create their own space and dimension, and come to be realized among the essential elements of the total work. She has looked at the importance of the word as the vehicle to express emotions and thoughts with a different purpose here, incorporating it within her now familiar webs, threads, and architectural drawings, to offer new possibilities and new juxtapositions. Longings and pains of separations, emotional excitements and joys of life, journeys to untraveled spaces, and contentment for being in familiar places, all are felt and written about and then scratched and torn here. The idea, she says, is that we can't really "de-word" our life, but we do need to "read" differently.
| Recently by Hengameh Fouladvand | Comments | Date |
|---|---|---|
رنگ زنگ درخشش کهکشان | 2 | Nov 26, 2011 |
اوهام | 6 | Oct 03, 2011 |
مانیفستی برای همین لحظه | 7 | Jun 24, 2011 |
| Title | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Anti-war protest in New York | Feb 06 | 104 |
| Hooman Majd by Hassan Daei | Jan 28 | 79 |
| Israeli Attack on Iran in Spring | Feb 04 | 79 |
| Will Israel attack Iran? | Feb 05 | 75 |
| از چه می ترسید؟ | Jan 29 | 75 |
| Person | About | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Ninja Women | Martial arts display by members of security forces | Feb 06 |
| Zeinab Bayazidi: Prisoner of the day | Human rights activist serving four years in prison in exile | Feb 06 |
| Sanaz Dehghan: Swimsuit/lingerie Model | Featured on Naked News lingerie | Feb 05 |
| Ali Malihi: Prisoner of the day | Sentenced to 4 years in prison for "mutiny" | Feb 05 |
| Christiane Amanpour: Colbert Report | Commenting on possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran | Feb 04 |
| Sima Eshraghi: Prisoner of the day | Five years imprisonment for "blasphemy" | Feb 04 |
| Kavoos Soofi: Canada Deportation Stopped | Pro-democracy activist's return to Iran on hold | Feb 03 |
| Hamidreza (Mahan) Mohammadi: Prisoner of the day | Serving 11 years for "contact" with monarchist group | Feb 03 |
| Cardboard Khomeini: Return from exile | 33 years later, reenacted | Feb 02 |
| Sahameddin Bouraghani: Prisoner of the day | Journalist arrested | Feb 02 |
Thought-provoking
by Pierr on Wed May 19, 2010 08:33 PM PDTInstead of searching to find familiar forms and representations in Hengameh's work, we can let our mind and soul fly with these works and go to her untraveled places, and be engaged there. As we become visually more sophisticated we are enabled to think and imagine in more abstract terms and concepts.
Reminds me of Cy Twombly's work
by ramintork on Wed May 19, 2010 04:10 PM PDTReminds me of Cy Twombly's work and his romantic symbolism. Very enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.
portraits, landscapes, nudes...
by Ari Siletz on Tue May 18, 2010 05:57 PM PDT