Art researcher, author, graphic designer, photographer and expert in restoration of artworks, Javid Ramezani, 54, has curated an exhibition of visual arts created by acclaimed artists related to Semnan.
The artists, invited by Ramezani, have put their works on view at d’Angers Art Gallery, a café gallery owned by renowned master of contemporary painting, Seyyed Asadollah Shariatpanahi, 80, based in Semnan, his hometown, according to Tandis magazine of visual art (Tandismag.com).
The artists are either born, worked or studied in Semnan for a period of time. Contributing artists are gallery owner Shariatpanahi; painter, caricaturist, illustrator, sculptor and animator Mohammad Ali Baniasadi; and painters Mohammad Hassan Javaheri, Ebrahim Yaghmaei, Masoud Sadedin and Bahman Sehatlou.
The exhibition is titled “Geography and Culture” and features paintings and sculptures. It opened on Friday and will run until May 21 at the gallery located on Qaem Blvd., at a corner of Mirhaj Street.
The event is based on the idea that even a small geographical place can contribute to art.
“Paying attention to the geography of culture can be instructive. Today’s anxious and hectic human can learn tolerance by seeing how artists from one place or one period can display variations,” Majid Karami, director of d’Angers Gallery, said.
“Such a geographical approach to art and culture can also shed light on regional environmental impairments caused by human activities.”
A note on the exhibit elaborates on Karami’s words: “As a medium reflecting the developments of human thoughts, art can be an effective tool for artists to observe developments and help find solutions to the contemporary environmental crises in the region under question.”
The statement emphasizes regional and local focus in promotion of art whereby developments in a given place and time can be identified and portrayed.
