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PEACEFUL – THOUGHTFUL
– Shahla Mansouri
October 27 – November 21
By Appointment Only
Thursday – Saturday: 11am-4pm
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Artist Statement:
“Here, I have focused on three elements: woman, poetry, and nature. I have also emphasized collage, as my technique.
The female figures are painted looking away, with their backs to the viewer, immersed in thought. The poetry written out, surrounding them, comes from Nezami Ganjavi, the Iranian poet (13th century). The poems are on love, and peace.
Woman, and Nature are taken as symbols of growth, fertility, patience, and endurance. The Sun and the Moon appear a lot in the works. Use of various textures, by way of collage, also appear as my way of showing these feelings. I have used paper, cloth, and metal, as my chosen media.
We live in rapidly changing times. It is worth taking time, looking at ourselves.”
– Shahla Mansouri
“”Absolute feminine”, I say. There is a woman or two, silhouette with just drawing a line in a shape of
a woman, showing her body style and clothes or an actual type, a realistic figure of that.
The paintings also contain two types of background which is a simple colored background or deep background of patterns and nature. The female is mostly a monochrome type of different colors or grays, on her skin and hair and mostly wearing a typical skirt. The nature in the background which is showing flowers, leaves and some marks of random twigs and dots, just pushes the main object of the artwork, the female, to the front layer of the painting.
A female is the main object of her paintings, mostly showing her back to the viewer, as she sees or thinks about something that involves the viewer to look deeply in the emotion of the woman. The feeling of the object’s mood is all about silence and calmness. As the two types of figures, silhouette or realistic shows, can not be naked, as it has been shown with clothes even in linear form. It presents manners too as a slight familiarity personally I have with the artist herself, Shahla, cares so much about manners and ethics.”
– Sina Gahremoni ( friend of Shahla Monsouri )
About the Artist: