Amir Mohammadzadeh | "Positive": Dastan's Basement

19 - 27 August 2016 The Basement
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A solo drawing exhibition of works by Amir Mohammadzadeh at Dastan' Basement

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Press release

Dastan’s Basement is pleased to announce the opening of Amir Mohammadzadeh’s solo exhibition titled “Positive” on August 19, 2016. The exhibition will be open for public viewing through August 27. As part of Dastan’s planning for a number of collaborative projects, this show is the second part of a two-part exhibition at the Basement. Lohrasb Bayat’s “—” was shown previously from August 5 to August 13.
This is both artists’ first solo exhibitions at the Basement. Lohrasb Bayat’s works have been previously shown in a Dastan Outside the Basement project in Sam Art. Amir Mohammadzadeh’s work was exhibited in “White” at the Basement.
While presenting two very different images, both artists have an inductive approach towards creating their works, starting with singular elements that eventually make up the work as a whole. Their technique consists of crosshatches with extra-fine details, while their methodical perspectives command distortions in their images, creating seemingly polar opposites —yet almost identical traces of their material can be found on the paper.
Hossein Tadi, drawing artist and the manager at “Khane-ye Tar’rahi [Drawing House]” writes: “Amir Mohammadzadeh is a contemporary drawing artist and a members of Drawing House. One of the most notable features of his drawings is his interest in structuralism and positive/negatives. He draws his ideas using a basic material, pencil, and shapes them with crosshatches and wide tonalities on the surface of the paper. In contemporary art, where human and social concepts shape the zeitgeist of our era, drawing as a medium has become notable as a critical approach. Amir deprives sexuality and identity from his surrounding human beings and leaves them in spatial suspense. He attacks urban life in its concrete environment. Concepts like the alienation of humans with metaphysics, the dominance of materialist approach in the world, and the illogical reliance of man’s fate on destructive technologies are among the concepts that have shaped Amir’s concerns during the recent years. He criticizes these concepts in his drawings.”