![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing "dense" about his pollution. In Rostam in Dense Pollution, Ave is using the same techniques of collage, calligraphy, scribbles, lines, and paint splashes on paper that he used in his previous hero series to give them a pasture. It diffuses light to give us a hazy picture of our lived experience. It diffracts energy physically and attention mentally. I am not sure if I need to explain further. The more we try to keep the good stuff and do away with the bad, the more we run away from the abrasive parts of life, the more we pollute. ![]() I chose the seasons here because I want to speak about this particular series, but any escape from the immediate situation brings pollution (and confusion). Let me offer a simplified take on pollution at the expense of ignoring its other, more obvious manifestations: "Pollution is the outcome of escaping what we deem inconvenient." We have pollution because we can't take the heat of summer and the cold of winter. When asked by Art Asia Pacific in 2009, "After winter will there be spring?" Ave answered almost prophetically, "That will depend on the gods of rejuvenation, but I can tell you that this is part of a much larger series." Now, in 2019, in spring, Rostam is in dense pollution and trying to juggle pieces of a puzzle that don't fit together. Between 19 his Rostams appeared "in late summer," surrounded by flowers, and starting in 2009 "in the dead of winter," with vultures hovering over head. They are familiar and you can rely on them to provide you with an even field that brings dullness to the senses but that shield you from the infinitude, richness, and shifty nature of appearance and experience.įor years, Fereydoun Ave has been taking his heroes to places to see what an timeless, archetypal being would do under everyday, temporal conditions. Confusion and pollution function in the same way. You may not like the flavor, but it has an indiscriminately familiar taste. This is the bittersweet signature of Starbucks coffee. Why? Because then every cup of Starbucks coffee would taste the same no matter where it beans came from and no matter where you have the brew. For years, Starbucks has been roasting its coffee beans to near charcoal. Pollution paints over contrast and difference to give us a seemingly unified visual field. What Chogyam Trungpa said about confusion – that it provides a familiar ground to take shelter from the open, unobstructed, ever-changing, and brilliant nature of reality – can be extended to pollution. As well as being purchased by many notable private collectors, Ave’s work has been acquired by prestigious art institutions including The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Cy Twombly Foundation and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA). His artworks have been featured in many solo exhibitions along with hundreds of group shows in galleries and museums all around the world. During his career, which spans over five decades, he has successfully taken many different roles including artist, designer, art director, collector, curator, gallerist and art patron. He received his BA in Applied Arts for Theatre from Arizona State University, studied film at New York University, and studied at the University of Seven Seas (aka Semester at Sea). 1945, Tehran, Iran) is one of the most influential individuals in Iranian contemporary art and his prolific efforts have taken diverse aspects. Pollution is a general but dense and ever-worsening concept these works are atmospheric pieces.”įereydoun Ave (b. Archetypal heroes tend to be one-dimensional but in fact they, like everyone else, are puzzles but don't fit together easily.įereydoun Ave continues on “Rostam in Dense Pollution”: “These are also a recycled series that took three years to come together -mixed media and collage and silk screen prints. In 2018, when I was working with the autumnal energy, I rediscovered and recycled them into this series of works. I choose three images and printed them digitally on foam boards and cut them into a jigsaw puzzle. One of these ways was to make them into a game -a puzzle. Regarding “The Rostam Puzzle”, the artist writes: “When I first made the original collages for ‘Rostam in Late Summer’ (1999), I revisited them many times and many ways later. The exhibition, which includes works from the artist’s “Rostam in Dense Pollution” and “The Rostam Puzzle” will be on display at V-Gallery (Dastan:Outside Projects) from April 5 to April 19, 2019. Dastan is pleased to announce Fereydoun Ave’s latest exhibition from his Rostam series of works. ![]()
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