Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi

Inscription #05

2021

Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi (°1979, Tehran) studied at the Brera Academy of Milan in Italy, where he graduated in Fine Arts in 2017. He currently lives and works in Milan and Antwerpen. He exhibits internationally, was awarded with several Fine Arts-prices in Italy and is currently engaged with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen, where he conducts his artistic research. Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi's paintings have their raison d'être in their essentiality. A formal and chromatic simplicity that appears silent, but at the same time dense with spirituality. The unifying element of these works is a gold line, conceived as a symbolic part of a larger circle, the circle of life, as if to protect and elevate them into an ethereal, ideal space. This refers to the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi, namely the practice of using liquid gold to repair broken objects with the idea that from imperfection and wounds can arise an even greater form of aesthetic and inner perfection. Fascinated and inspired by intrinsical beauty, Mahmoud starts from firm materials, treating them with respect, embracing the elements of raw textures and the histories they carry. This results in contemporary and conceptual artworks, minimalistic, abstract, and iconographically strong. His works reference universal languages such as mathematics and the combination of full and empty space, combining form and rythm.