At 01 01 pm saturday 03 feb 1968 235 x 80 x 60cm hand carved polished carrara marble.
Reza aramesh marble.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Behold someone that once had the human rights of a man.
I saved my belly dancer xxiv 2015 by youssef nabil.
Site of the fall.
This new sculpture carved in marble a material commonly reserved for celebratory purposes continues the artist s multi faceted explorations of the human ability to inflict suffering.
In reza aramesh s site of the fall.
Civilisations rise and fall time passes yet to be human never changes.
Behold someone that once had the human rights of a man.
So london based iranian artist reza aramesh draws attention to these anonymous victims by recontextualising media images of conflict through staged re enactments of the events to create.
My approach is a lot less researched than that of other people s.
At the heart of iranian artist reza aramesh s practice is a razor sharp investigation of what it means to be human.
Reza s work generates discussion towards topics of displacement war violence and trauma by using the subjected body as source material.
And now the gifted iranian artist reza aramesh has endued himself with the pleasurable tragic nature of the human condition in his site of the fall.
Reza aramesh site of the fall study of the renaissance garden.
Bedroom wall adorned with action 66 2009 by reza aramesh.
At 9 15 am sunday 28 may 1967 240 x 80 x 55cm hand carved polished carrara marble.
This new sculpture carved in marble a material commonly reserved for celebratory purposes continues the artist s multi faceted explorations of the human ability to inflict suffering.
Study of the renaissance garden action 182.
Using photography sculpture collage drawing video and performance reza aramesh recounts war reportage of violence as well as echoing the vision of fervent revival of the cycles of life.
Art has no nationality gender or religion adds sara.
Beside the masterpieces of the antiquities museum upon the banks of the river rhine and finally before the threshold of the basel courthouse as.
Images of oppression and violence have been ubiquitous in reza aramesh s work.
Three hand carved and polished marble nudes to the ratio 5 4 of human scale first shown at art basel parcours in june 2017 oscillate between ancient and new.
With an interest in the iconography of the human body and torment in western art history aramesh creates photographic and sculptural works that examine the cross section between beauty and suffering.
2017 reza aramesh.
Images of oppression and violence have been ubiquitous in reza aramesh s work.
