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Shabahang Tayyari

Painting or “art” in general, is not something pre-defined, holy or ritual for Shabahang Tayyari. It is an everyday game that he has been following with thorough consciousness and skill for years. This constant trial has enabled him to create his own original games which he can destroy, renew or discard when he wishes.  Every day games to which he is addicted…

 Anything can be found in Shabahang’s paintings and concepts; from portraying a spaceship and playing with taboos to memories, poetry and pure art itself. Apart from their visual novelty, what makes his works unique and exclusive is joking with clichéd concepts of art and science. For instance, he makes a five-wheel bicycle that is of no use or a door that has been transformed into a table. He emphasizes on and plays with the fossil-like fixed patterns of human minds while using them in his pieces. The image of an object like a bicycle or a calculator which resembles the image of mountains, trees and birds in the mind of a man today, is defamiliarized with a modern ironic concept and eventually refined into a pure work of art. In other words, he takes advantage of our memories from media, technology and arts to his own benefit and without giving clichéd nostalgic images to his works, destroys memory with memory and creates a contemporary piece of art that reminds us more of the future rather than the past. It is as if his sculptures have been made by a 19th-century inventor for the future and this invention is perceived as an art work years later. He does not only confine to ready-mades, but also benefits from the melancholy of Dalli’s Sculptures, the shock of Richard Prince and contemporaries like Charles Ray as much as he does from knowing Duchamp and Picabia. While there is no attempt to erase footprints of these artists, in one of his works, he pours his new solution in an aquarium, in order to demonstrate a rusty future and a vivid past. 

Vahid Sharifian 2014