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拍品專文
Hey , you the wild one.
Come to me, I have known you forever,
we are one.
you are lonely , I am a wonderer,
we are one,
And they are after you, to hunt you.
And to hunt me,
They hunt red,
They hunt blue,
They hunt gold,
They hunt yellow.
They hunt the day and they hunt the night.
They hunt the dawn.
-Reza Derakshani
With an explosion of red hues and hints of blues and pale yellows, Derakshani is depicting horsemen on a hunt by unifying aspects of abstraction and figuration, which he adapted from Western and Eastern cultures. With the combination of the two societies, he created an eccentric body of work that came about after his experimentation with pure abstraction. Reminiscent of the abundant artistic Iranian culture, he coats the surface of the canvas layer upon layer of oil paint to create an abstract landscape with a palpable motif of horse riding hunters.
It is often said that Derakshani treats his canvases like a performative construction, bringing together his passion for music with his love for art and history. In the present work not only does he hint at the richness of his heritage, he also skillfully composes contrasting sensations of luminosity and obscurity and with the use of a pallet knife, suggests a sense of motion. The depicted figures are riding horses or hunting against an enchanting background made of thick brushstrokes and lacquered surface and they appear to be moving from the darkness to the light. The result is an elegant composition portraying a harmonious and almost mystical scene of life.
'Merging the essence of my cultural heritage together with the multifaceted twentieth century art, I tried to find my own language of non-representational works. The earlier works were derived from Persian miniatures and folk art, but in progress it moved to the non-objective state, that's where it bypassed my perceptions and stimulated the inner senses, where it became more lyrical'.
Derakshani grew up surrounded by nature and horses, impacting the way he views natural splendor. Having received his first commission at the young age of nine and having his first solo show at the renowned Ghandriz Art Gallery in Tehran at the age of nineteen, Derakshani was considered a wunderkind. After graduating from the University of Tehran in 1976, Reza went on to study at the Pasadena School of Art in California. Upon finishing his degree in California, he returned to Tehran to teach at its University in the School of Decorative Arts. However his stay in Iran was short-lived as he left for New York in 1983 at the spring of the Islamic Revolution, where he found his permanent home for the next sixteen years before moving to Italy.
Come to me, I have known you forever,
we are one.
you are lonely , I am a wonderer,
we are one,
And they are after you, to hunt you.
And to hunt me,
They hunt red,
They hunt blue,
They hunt gold,
They hunt yellow.
They hunt the day and they hunt the night.
They hunt the dawn.
-Reza Derakshani
With an explosion of red hues and hints of blues and pale yellows, Derakshani is depicting horsemen on a hunt by unifying aspects of abstraction and figuration, which he adapted from Western and Eastern cultures. With the combination of the two societies, he created an eccentric body of work that came about after his experimentation with pure abstraction. Reminiscent of the abundant artistic Iranian culture, he coats the surface of the canvas layer upon layer of oil paint to create an abstract landscape with a palpable motif of horse riding hunters.
It is often said that Derakshani treats his canvases like a performative construction, bringing together his passion for music with his love for art and history. In the present work not only does he hint at the richness of his heritage, he also skillfully composes contrasting sensations of luminosity and obscurity and with the use of a pallet knife, suggests a sense of motion. The depicted figures are riding horses or hunting against an enchanting background made of thick brushstrokes and lacquered surface and they appear to be moving from the darkness to the light. The result is an elegant composition portraying a harmonious and almost mystical scene of life.
'Merging the essence of my cultural heritage together with the multifaceted twentieth century art, I tried to find my own language of non-representational works. The earlier works were derived from Persian miniatures and folk art, but in progress it moved to the non-objective state, that's where it bypassed my perceptions and stimulated the inner senses, where it became more lyrical'.
Derakshani grew up surrounded by nature and horses, impacting the way he views natural splendor. Having received his first commission at the young age of nine and having his first solo show at the renowned Ghandriz Art Gallery in Tehran at the age of nineteen, Derakshani was considered a wunderkind. After graduating from the University of Tehran in 1976, Reza went on to study at the Pasadena School of Art in California. Upon finishing his degree in California, he returned to Tehran to teach at its University in the School of Decorative Arts. However his stay in Iran was short-lived as he left for New York in 1983 at the spring of the Islamic Revolution, where he found his permanent home for the next sixteen years before moving to Italy.