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 |
|---|---|---|
نقره ای | 1 | Sep 01, 2010 |
شیرین ترین اجبار | 7 | Aug 12, 2010 |
انصراف | 2 | Jul 22, 2010 |
| Title | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| The Greatest Sin | Sep 04 | 112 |
| Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin & Clear Denial | Sep 01 | 109 |
| Islam's Kettle Calling Christianity's Teapot Black | Aug 31 | 100 |
| Palestinian leader blasts Ahmadinejad over Mideast peace comments | Sep 04 | 78 |
| The Train to Auschwitz | Sep 07 | 64 |
| Person | About | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Lost Iranian Tribe in India | Migrated from Persia 400-600 years ago | Sep 08 |
| Masoud Shajareh | Chairman of Islamic Human Rights Commission in London | Sep 07 |
| Saman Tahmasebi | Iranian wrestling champion changes citizenship | Sep 06 |
| Ms. Baba Karam | Young girl dancing at wedding | Sep 06 |
| Abdolkarim Soroosh | University of Toronto, August 30, 2010 | Sep 04 |
| Noora Moghaddas | Iranian female motocross champion competes in U.S. | Sep 04 |
| Tehrani e Baahaal | Spectator makes fun of regime supporters on Qods Day | Sep 04 |
| Azita Shafazand | Talks about her participation in the recent expats conference in Tehran | Sep 03 |
| Kambiz Hosseini & Saman Arbabi | Interview with creators of VOA's popular Parazit show | Sep 01 |
| Iranian Basketball Team | It was a bit ugly, but the U.S. beats Iran 88-51 | Sep 01 |
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