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He ridiculed, he mocked, he transformed, 2012
Loaned to
GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Description
drawings on tissue paper
(8 drawings 14 x 17 inches each and 1 drawing 19.5 x 27.6 inches)
Dimensions
Dimensione variabile
No. Elements
9
Object Type
disegno
Credits
©Avish Khebrehzadeh - Courtesy GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
Avish Khebrehzadeh’s chosen language is that of drawing, animations, and painting. All three of these mediums, through a strong stylistic unity, compose a universe made up of fantastic images, memories, dreams, and fragments of fairy tales.
Khebrehzadeh’s characters, both human and animal, emerge from the darkness of the black sheet of paper, from the nostalgia of sepia sheets or from the milky fog of white sheets. Like figures in dreams, they appear whole, isolated like images set into their solitude, or in the form of fragments, like details that are sketched out but incorporeal, made of the same fog out of which they surface, except for some unexpected bright chromatic lights that seem glued onto them, surface claddings at which they themselves seem astonished. [...]
GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
Via Magenta, 31
10128 Torino
