Nature of Things
One must not invent color. By combining two colors wecan reach a thousandand by combining seven we can arrive at an infinity of colors. This infinity can berepeatedly mixed to arrive at the main color so the work can begin. It’s notimportant that these colors don’t have name or one cannot name them. What’simportant is that they exist and can be multiplied.”-Handwritings of Mr. H in José Saramago’s Manual of Painting and CalligraphyGroup is the pivot of my work. In my collective projects I collaborate with artists.When Dastan Gallery asked me toput together a group exhibition, I decided to asknot only artists that I had worked with but those that I had followed but not workedwith (Aisa Rashid, Ali Shayesteh, Soheil Mokhtar, MohammadHosseinZareei, andAbolfazl Harouni) to appear in this exhibition with their independent works.How can you bring a group of artists with different approaches, viewpoints, andcosmologies into a mix? How can you bring consistency to so much diversity andmultiplicity? Despite their differences, each one ofthese artistshasa nature thatconnect her or him to another–the nature (of) art.From the outset, and without prior arrangements, works of some artists weresimilar in terms of form and content, which goes to show that people living in thesame era have similar preoccupations.This seems to be the spirit of the era, its zeitgeist, connecting people throughshared concerns.By offering a subject,Nature of Things brings together diverse artists to +2