Sepand Danesh Iranian, b. 1984
Sepand Danesh's approach develops tools highlighting the perpetual movement of thought, its paradoxes, its connections and the richness of its variability. He develops precise protocols that can be viewed as experiments produced by the human brain.
Amongst these protocols, drawing allows him to fragment ideas through a grid by sampling each reflection into a sketch. Juxtaposed with other similar thoughts, it becomes a codex or an eclectic set of creative moments. Being at the source of all my projects, this cognitive exercise functions as a notebook.
Painting and trompe-l’oeil techniques lead him to design heuristic spaces that aim to provoke the viewer. His canvases are always composed of a corner without floor or ceiling. Inside this exploration space, he places objects with omniscient appearances, extracted from his personal memory and from a wider memory taken in his historical and artistic environment. The corner encloses and prevents the momentum of the body in its progression and movement, forcing the spirit to escape through imagination and creativity. His paintings thus offer the viewer a cognitive dialectic of prevention and escape. He uses the corner as a metaphor for confinement in his body, in languages, in countries, on earth, and that goes without saying, in the human condition.
Alternatively, Danesh creates sequences of variations in volume, stemming from the same fragment – a cube or a pixel in volume, which it can also be called a ‘voxel’. Assemblages or combinations invented this way produce postures, inducing a lingering desire for expression, to the point that one would be deceived by the illusion of their movement. An illusion accentuated by the interplay of shadows and painted lights, giving a digital aspect to sculptures and getting spectators off the beaten track, inviting them to interact with their environment.
Academic research helps him to update his creative process and find new lines of study. Observing the evolution of our thinking systems included the following past initiatives: A research project on urban grids in post-modern cities (funded by the CNAP from 2017 to 2019 as part of a research and creation support program). An initiation of a research program (Hubtopia) gathering artists and researchers around the problematic of the Hub. An implementation of his drawing protocol as part of a connected pen project in partnership with researchers and philosophers in cognitive science and network science.
From his first drawings to his current projects in cognitive science, he strive to highlight the beauty of human thought. The works he proposes to the public give an opportunity for everyone to get a grasp of their cognitive processes. He firmly believe in one important thing: artists have the responsibility to reveal to society the relationship between individuals and their environment. Why not propose new ways to reveal ourselves to ourselves, using the entirety of our potential? Therefore a question arises: which predictions could we make about the evolution of human thinking within the realm of the digital age?
Sepand Danesh (b. 1984, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in Paris since he was 12. He uses drawing, painting and workshops as a rhizome of opportunity in which he bursts ideas about the dynamic of hub. His paintings represent optical illusion of inside corner (as the metaphor of impediment) without floor or ceiling which shelter his intimate and also the world's wider memory.
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Art Dubai 2022
Group presentation 11 - 13 Mar 2022 Art FairsDastan is pleased to announce its participation at Art Dubai 2022 with a presentation of works by Fereydoun Ave, Andisheh Avini, Nasser Bakhshi, Yousha Bashir, Sepand Danesh, Maryam Eivazi, Mohammad...Read more -
Asia Now 2021
+2 21 - 24 Oct 2021 Art Fairs+2 Gallery is pleased to present a group presentation of works by Reza Aramesh, Andisheh Avini, Niyaz Azadikhah, Nasser Bakhshi, Sadra Baniasadi, Sina Choopnai, Sepand Danesh, Niki Fallahfar, Bita Fayyazi,...Read more -
Asal Peirovi, Sepand Danesh, and Mehdi Ghadyanloo
ART021 2020 12 - 15 Nov 2020 Art FairsDastan is pleased to announce its second participation at ART021 with a presentation of works by Asal Peirovi, Sepand Danesh, and Mehdi Ghadyanloo at booth E31. This presentation features a...Read more
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Preview London #2
Dastan's Basement 15 - 31 May 2020Explore works by Sam Samiee and Sepand Danesh at “Preview London#2” organized by Beadvisors art. The exhibition is on view until May 31st on https://www.artland.com/viewing-rooms/cka6j0o5t6mji0771jp0zx1jx Participant galleries: Bosse & Baum...Read more -
Sepand Danesh | "Introduction to the Hub"
Dastan's Basement 21 Jun - 12 Jul 2019 The BasementA solo presentation of works by Sepand Danesh at Dastan's BasementRead more -
''Le Gymnasium Sacre''
Art Dubai 2019 20 - 23 Mar 2019 Art FairsA Presentation by Dastan at Booth C2, Art Dubai 2019Read more
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Top 12 booths to see at Art Dubai as it returns home to Madinat Jumeirah for 2022
The National News March 11, 2022The National News also selects its prefered booths at Art Dubai 2022. Alexandra Chaves has this to say on Dastan’s Basement / +2 Gallery /...Read more -
The 8 Best Booths at Art Dubai
Art News March 9, 2022Emily Watlington writes for ARTnews on Dastan Gallery space at Art Dubai Art 2022, which the writer find the fair's biggest edition to-date, with over...Read more -
Iran Joins the Lineup at Asia Now
The New York Times October 21, 2021New York times covers the recent edition of Asia Now and the participation of Sepand Danesh and Hoda Kashiha among other Iranian artists, as they...Read more
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Sepand Danesh at Dubai World Expo 2020
Connaissance Des Arts October 8, 2021Connaissance Des Arts has recently published an article about Dubai World Expo 2020. Sepand Danesh has also created 25 sculptures for the French pavilion at...Read more -
VIDEO: Meeting with Sépànd Danesh for the France Pavilion of the Dubai Universal Expo
IDEAT Magazine April 26, 2021The IDEAT magazine talked to Sépànd Danesh who designed The France Pavilion of the next Dubai World Expo 2020. For more information in French click...Read more -
SÉPÀND DANESH, Art is a corner of creation
Anahita’s Eye June 5, 2019Anahita's Eye has recently published an interview with Sepand Danesh. Click here to read it in full.Read more