Parimah Avani, Silvery Song of Resistance, Drawing, 2022

Description

Silvery Song of Resistance is a painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023. China ink and … more Silvery Song of Resistance is a painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023. China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed and dated. Excellent conditions. Presented in a Personal exhibition of "Calligraphy of Bodies" in Luoghi Comuni Turin 2023. The artwork is poetically created through expressionistic brush strokes, various yellow, pink, and red tones, and hue silvery. the well-applied dry and watery strokes represent gestural rebellion figures in a minimalistic manner. The various layer is made perfectly by the expression of brushes, which makes this series unique: it is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each figure and abstract form, four colors here have metaphorical features; pink as woman, yellow as hope, silvery as resistance, and red as blood. The panoramic lines inspired by Persian calligraphy created motifs and repetition harmoniously in a neat composition, each reminding mysterious words. The style of Persian calligraphy and her knowledge of poetry let her make a visual poem in an expressionistic style, which is congruent with the title, the use of space and maintaining an empty background and foreground intentionally have been made to emphasize the solitude and loneliness of figures and at the same time connect to oriental calligraphy in which empty space has the same value as the filled one, succeed to create pure incarnation. Her artworks artwork has evident characteristics, firstly strongly inspired by Tachisme's “Abstraction lyrique" and artworks of Henri Michaux, and Hans Hurting secondly oriental Persian calligraphy of poems style is evident in her artworks, finally dynamic sensation of revolutionary art, the slogan of street wall transformed into contemporary language and its features intuitively are subtly inserted. Parimah Avani (Born1988) is an Iranian Poet and visual artist, since 2009 has lived and studied in Italy, after graduating from the Fine Art Academy of Rome in painting continued her research on “Aesthetic of Talisman and Magics Text and Craft” and took her Ph.D. title in the Sapienza University of Rome in 2020. These series have been presented in her solo exhibitions of: - Luoghi Comuni, Turin, 2023 - Paiz, Turin 2022 - Bagni Pubblici, Turin, 2022 from her have been published books and illustrations of books. The Last book of her “ The Magic Scroll of Antalus” published in 2020 in Iran was among the finalists for the “Shamlu” Literature and Poetry Award in 2021. Her main camp study has been mythology, ritual, and magic. Her art is strongly connected to the transfer of local and traditional folk art and its symbols into the contemporary language in a poetic style by the transformation of oriental calligraphy as the medium. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



issues arising from misattribution less