Artwork By
Hossein Valamanesh at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Some information about artist artwork:
The writing literally is on the wall for Hossein Valamanesh at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Each time the artist installs his Untitled work in a new location, he must re-create its shadow text.
Valamanesh features with many of the state's leading artists in the Australian Art Activations exhibition as part of this year's SALA Festival, which starts on Friday.
Works by Fiona Hall, Tony Bishop, Sally Smart, Anthony Hamilton, Louise Haselton, Yhonnie Scarce, Sue Kneebone and Gerry Wedd will be shown alongside more traditional pieces.
Valamanesh, who was born in Iran, is the subject of this year's SALA monograph book.
His 1994 Untitled work consists of a folded shirt intricately constructed from lotus leaves.
The shadow he painted yesterday contains Farsi text from a Sufi poem, which translates as: "I tear my shirt with every breath for the extent of ecstasy and joy of being in love; now he has become all my being, and I am only a shirt."
Valamanesh said he loved the contrast between the stiff shirt and the openness of the poem.
"It's nice because it sort of changes slightly every time I've done it," he says.
Reflation:
I had find Hussaini artwork really interest to look as sample for this project that I am doing, because his artwork somehow relate to his culture and country. What I really about this pieces of artwork is the text written in way human shadow and it look interest.
