Soudeh Davoud

Zahedan resistance - Painting, Coloured pencil on cardboard

2022

In Evin Prison (2022), from her acclaimed Immortal Flower series, Soudeh Davoud (b. 1988) layers delicate beauty over scenes of historical and political weight. Executed in coloured ...

Soudeh Davoud Taq-e Bostan, 2021 Colour pencils on paper 70 x 56 cm (27 1/2 x 22 in) In Taq-e Bostan, Soudeh Davoud reimagines a historic Iranian site through a contemporary, femini...

Full title : The first meeting of the Prince and his lover in the forest Acrylic paint on paper Hand-signed lower right by the artist THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI...

Acrylic painting on paper Hand-signed by the artist lower left Unique work THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI " Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to which we were accustomed from the previous deliberately art brut exhibition by Mohammad ARIYAEI. The Iranian painter's imagination moves serenely from the wildest frenzy to the meditative calm of great, fabulous stories. The artist then took pleasure in pouring the volcanic torrent of his barbaric figures onto the delicate latticework with which he is accustomed to lining his backgrounds with the patience of an illuminating monk. Already sweetness and paroxysm coexisted. Now gentleness wins. The trained imagination of the painter, yet spontaneously bubbling, by instinct as much as by erudition, has no difficulty in reconnecting with the abundant oriental tradition of the thousand and one nights, which, like a long underground river, resurfaces at the light of his painting. Spring renewal of traditions still alive. Systematic filling of space, a sort of oriental version of the Riches Heures...