A Light in the Dark

These images are the result of three realms:
the painter, the canvas, and the model
Here, you can witness one of them, which includes the other two with a distance.
I hope that, just as they now benefit from the accomplishments of the past, these realms can withstand the test of time: "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

Amir Jadidi
August 2020

A piece of bread, some kitchen utensils, a teacup, and a dried lemon positioned alongside glass bottles: these items may all seem commonplace, if not banal. Amir Jadidi is a painter who, by focusing on still life and limiting the themes on which he works, offers the audience distinctive expressive capabilities, in the form of representations. Through his efforts to create, he opens a window onto something beyond simple and familiar subjects. His worldview is based on a type of identical representation, in which one can find traces of the legacy art history has left behind. In his drawings as well, one can witness a manifestation of the presence of light in a dark space. This is even more evident when the artist utilizes the lesser-known method of monotype. This method, which is considered the most painterly of printmaking techniques, can be categorized between painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking.