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FARHAD MOSHIRI - Fire of Joy

By Moshiri, Farhad ,  Robecchi, Michele

FARHAD MOSHIRI - Fire of Joy book

FARHAD MOSHIRI - Fire of Joy

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"Life is primarily dominated by a hunting instinct, and predators are distinguishable in nature because of the position of their eyes. Eyes are in the front of the head, to aid pursuit. Prey animals’ eyes are found on the side, to search for predators. When transferred to visual art, as the renowned playwright David Mamet has once astutely observed, the hunting process is actually shared between the creator and the audience. The viewer is told what the goal is, and like the artist, works to determine what happens through observation. Art is not, though it may appear to be, just the mere presentation of an idea but the inculcation in the audience of the instincts that generated it. Interpretation, in short, engages the same portion of the brain used for the hunt. When it comes to Farhad Moshiri’s work, however, a singular phenomenon takes place where the artist comes across both as hunter and prey. Hunter because his visual vocabulary is extraordinarily rich – indiscriminately picking up from a wide range of influences that include pop art, conceptual art, comics, advertising, classic portraits and religious iconography, and subjecting them to a treatment that embraces an equal variety of media, from painting to embroidery and sculpture. And prey because Moshiri, although steadily projected onto the exploration and experimentation of new formal possibilities and ideas, is also persistently reiterating his own work, almost haunted by his younger self, always there over his shoulder whispering in his ears what to do and what not to do. In this fascinating process, chance naturally plays a pivotal role." M.Robecchi
Product details
Number of Pages:
113
Publication Date:
2012
Publisher:
Perrotin
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
2953279792
Weight:
800 g
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