The Rose Garden of Remembrance exhibit will be Karimi’s first solo exhibition in New York City, and follows his solo exhibition this winter at the Stadtmuseum in Siegburg, Germany. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Layla S. Diba and Octavio Zaya will accompany the exhibition.
The Iranian-born artist is currently splitting his time between Germany and New York. His art explores his seemingly opposing identities. Using Western techniques and approaches to painting, Karimi re-imagines people and experiences from the past—including the shared past of his cultural heritage—in a highly individual and contemporary form.
Karimi constructs his art on found fabrics and objects including suitcases, chairs, doors and old pieces of furniture. His dream-like landscapes of figures and scenes are said to exist in a time and place that is in between the past and the present.
The exhibit will also include a one-wall installation titled “Look,” which is made up of more than 25 old photographs Karimi acquired over the years. He paints on and over these images, reinterpreting them.
Also featured in the exhibition will be “Dusk,” a collaborative work that Karimi has done with video artist Shoja Azari. The two artists first created what they call “video paintings” in 2007. “Dusk” is gives a spectacular view of the New York City skyline. The medium combines traditional painting with video, so that once the filmed moving image is projected onto the painted canvas, the scene almost comes alive.
Karimi was born in 1957 and grew up in Shiraz. He has worked as the production designer on many of Shirin Neshat’s films, most recently “Women Without Men” which won the Silver Lion award at the Venice film Festival in 2009.
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