Reza Aramesh Marble
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Reza aramesh marble. At 01 01 pm saturday 03 feb 1968 235 x 80 x 60cm hand carved polished carrara marble. This new sculpture carved in marble a material commonly reserved for celebratory purposes continues the artist s multi faceted explorations of the human ability to inflict suffering. Reza s work generates discussion towards topics of displacement war violence and trauma by using the subjected body as source material. Art has no nationality gender or religion adds sara.
Sara immediately bombed nassib with photos determined that they buy sherpa s work. Three hand carved and polished marble nudes to the ratio 5 4 of human scale first shown at art basel parcours in june 2017 oscillate between ancient and new. Bedroom wall adorned with action 66 2009 by reza aramesh. Civilisations rise and fall time passes yet to be human never changes.
In reza aramesh s site of the fall. With an interest in the iconography of the human body and torment in western art history aramesh creates photographic and sculptural works that examine the cross section between beauty and suffering. And now the gifted iranian artist reza aramesh has endued himself with the pleasurable tragic nature of the human condition in his site of the fall. My approach is a lot less researched than that of other people s.
Beside the masterpieces of the antiquities museum upon the banks of the river rhine and finally before the threshold of the basel courthouse as. Behold someone that once had the human rights of a man. Study of the renaissance garden action 182. Study of the renaissance garden.
Using photography sculpture collage drawing video and performance reza aramesh recounts war reportage of violence as well as echoing the vision of fervent revival of the cycles of life. At the heart of iranian artist reza aramesh s practice is a razor sharp investigation of what it means to be human. This new sculpture carved in marble a material commonly reserved for celebratory purposes continues the artist s multi faceted explorations of the human ability to inflict suffering. Images of oppression and violence have been ubiquitous in reza aramesh s work.
Study of the renaissance garden three hand carved and polished carrara marble sculptures crafted in pietrasanta italy to the ratio 5 4 of human scale are presented within three contrapuntal contexts. I saved my belly dancer xxiv 2015 by youssef nabil. 2017 reza aramesh. Images of oppression and violence have been ubiquitous in reza aramesh s work.
Reza aramesh site of the fall study of the renaissance garden. Site of the fall.