body two

About the Artwork

According to Wikipedia, “Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of the human body.” Although no Persian equivalent has been devised for “body art” yet, I call my collection “Honar Tan”, i.e., painting on human body. Painting on human body is a type of body art as well as a sub-category of "performance art". Perhaps the first impression received here from body art is its name. However, if you enter the gallery expecting to see what is commonly called “body art”, you are in for a disappointment. I have directed body art and anatomy along the path of my imagination and my fascination with expressing anger, and combined it with other bodily expressions in an attempt to create my own version of body art which revolves entirely around my excessive and lasting interest in human anatomy, particularly the male anatomy. This is my attempt at admiring the muscular beauty of the male figure. I do not entirely deny the influence of “super hero” comic books on my works, but these figures are purely subjective. I was inspired by this art form and wanted to praise the beauty of human body in my own particular way. For this purpose, I simplified as much as possible the faces in my paintings, which usually play the main role in expressing a person’s mental and psychological state, and concentrated instead on exhibiting men’s anger in the form of tense and intertwined male figures to induce in the viewer the ultimate fury or perhaps hatred emanating from the depth of these figures.