NEFELIBATA: DIÁRIO FILOSÓFICO IMAGÉTICO : MOHAMMED EHSAÏ

16 outubro 2021

MOHAMMED EHSAÏ

MOHAMMED EHSAÏ

Mohammed Ehsai é um artista iraniano contemporâneo cujo trabalho estilizado é caracterizado por uma fusão de caligrafia árabe, design gráfico e abstração modernista.

Composições em dois tons de símbolos árabes e escrita, combinados, pintadas sobre telas em grande escala, formam a espinha dorsal da prática de Ehsai.

Apresentando formas retorcidas e design simétrico delicado, suas pinturas oferecem uma visão global única dos séculos XX e XXI.

Mohammed Ehsai nasceu em Qazvin, no Irã, em 1939, ele freqüentou a Universidade de Teerã em 1966 para estudar belas artes e caligrafia árabe tradicional. Após formado conseguiu um cargo de professor e passou a lecionar na mesma universidade em 1971.

Seu trabalho culturalmente carregado recebeu atenção internacional, ganhando encomendas como murais no Embaixada do Irã de Abu Dhabi nos Emirados Árabes Unidos. Seu trabalho com letras influenciou diversos artistas além de grafiteiros ao redor do mundo. (1)

M. EHSAÏ

He attended Tehran University in 1966 to study fine art and traditional calligraphy, before going on the attain a teaching position there in 1971. Mohammad Ehsai is a master calligrapher turned artist who uses dense, interlaced texts to provide a contemplative space for language that does not rely on direct translation. His works are inspired by Western abstraction and Chinese brush painting. Large in scale and often brightly colored upon black backgrounds, his compositions require perceptive silence rather than reading skills, and seek to convey the heavenly power that calligraphy has traditionally possessed. By toying with proportion, ratio, and scale, these works visualize a distinct mysticism in their interpretation and take on the utopian ideals of Modernism. The artist has created illustrious murals and private commissions, using his own unique style to transform the ways in which this seemingly rigid text might be distilled.

Ehsai’s murals can be found on the Iranian Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Natural Museum of Iran. He has exhibited extensively in Tehran and has had work in institutions such as the British Museum, London, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Leighton House Museum, London, and Beirut Exhibition Center, among others. He received the National Award or Art and Culture in Iran in 2005.