Forough, Shahram Karimi
2010, mixed media on fabric
Tomorrow the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery will open the exhibition The Rose Garden of Remembrance by Shahram Karimi. This will be the Iranian-born artist's first solo exhibition in New York.
LTMH Gallery writes:
"Born in Iran, and now living between Germany and New York, Karimi’s work explores the dilemma of his seemingly opposing identities. Using Western techniques and approaches to painting, Karimi re-imagines people and experiences from the past – including the shared past of his cultural heritage – in a highly individual and contemporary form. Dan Cameron, in an essay from the Stadtmuseum catalogue, writes of Karimi’s position as an expatriate Iranian living and working in the West: “The exile cannot help returning again and again to those images that evoke the past, because this is the only way the present can be reconciled with a place to which one cannot return, as well as a sense-memory that has been severed from its place of origin. The luxury of forgetting falls to those who never have to leave.”
For more information, please visit the gallery's website at www.ltmhgallery.com
Image is courtesy of www.ltmhgallery.com
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