.jpg "An art lover visits the exhibition of paintings by Alireza Adambakan at Tehran’s Asar Gallery on November 30, 2012.")
TEHRAN -- Young painter Alireza Adambakan has depicted the changing identity of modern Tehran in his latest collection “My Figures No. 3”, which is currently on display in an exhibition at Tehran’s Asar Gallery.
“The central theme of my works is the urban areas and the events happening around or to me in these areas,” Adambakan said in a press release on Saturday.
This collection is the third sequel to his “My Figures”, which he began to create in 1996.
The first collection focused on the old interwoven alleys of Tehran without its people. In second collection, he entered people’s homes and centered on their lifestyles.
“People have returned to the city in his works in the latest collection, which Adambakan has created over the past eight years. The city had changed and is still changing,” Asar manager Maryam Majd said.
In this collection, he shows buildings constructed without any reasonable connection with each other, she added.
“Mortar and events without any correlation, the hybrid identity of neighborhoods and anxieties over the events… all say that this is Tehran, the capital, which is changing in its architecture and the social, cultural, political and religious structures,” she stated.
Despite the bright and rich colors Adambakan used to create the collection, the atmosphere of his expressionist works is not happy.
“In the past, I painted the idea I had in mind, but in this collection I have drawn the daily events that have occurred around me,” Adambakan said.
The exhibit runs until December 24 at the gallery located at No. 16, Barforushan St. off Iranshahr St.
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