Booth A25, Miami Beach, Florida
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SARAI Gallery is pleased to announce its return to Untitled Art Miami Beach with a group presentation of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by Iranian artists Ali Zakeri (1959), Dariush Hosseini (1970), Shiva Noroozi (1980), Shima Faridani (1982), Sam Nikmaram (1991), and Sadaf Seyed (1996). These brilliant visual artists represent not only the rather progressive Iranian art scene where male and female artists have flourished side-by-side for generations but also showcase some of the most vibrant, creative, and diverse examples of how each generation of Iranians views gender, gender roles, and the body as a formal manifestation of sexual identity and collective dreams and nightmares throughout the region's modern history.
Having lived through a bloody revolution and the terrors and contradictions of a long and devastating war, Zakeri - who once served as a soldier at the front - and Hosseini naturally echo their personal brush with violence in their art: Dariush Hosseini's "Infantry" is at the same time a visual pleasure and a harrowing vision of the futility of war among fellow men. His dead, dancing figures no longer bear any marks of identity or even gender. They are depicted almost as a red-toned still-life arrangement, beyond fear or worries. A chilling reminder that we are all equal in the face of death; no rank, riches, or … gender. Zakeri, on the other hand, questions age-old ideals of physical fitness and 'manliness' by depicting the twisting, merging, and crushing faces and bodies of boxers as they fight endlessly on the earth. Both Hosseini and Zakeri interpret violence as an abstract force challenging the figurative wholeness of the human body.
