Howard Griffin Gallery presents Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo's Spaces Of Hope exhibition in a vast off-site 14,000 square foot former industrial testing facility in central London.
Free exhibition consisting of paintings and monumental sculptural installation.
Drinks by Hennessy.
Soundscape by Seth Troxler.
To attend: rsvp@howardgriffingallery.com
Ambika P3
35 Marylebone Rd
London
NW1 5LS
Closest tube: Baker Street
Event description:
On 2 March 2017 Howard Griffin Gallery will present Spaces Of Hope the much anticipated new body of work from Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo. The show will take place at the 14,000 square foot Ambika P3 space in central London and will consists of a new body of large original paintings and sculptural works.
An empty spiral staircase rises from a dark hole in the floor through a monumental stone room and falls just short of a oculus with light streaming through it. A vast and unending plain is punctured by
two groups of people descending down squarely chiselled steps away from the light. In a utopian scene, empty tower blocks inhabit a vast and unending landscape. A single cloud hovers above a single staircase in a barren land. These are the paintings of Spaces Of Hope - beautiful, beguiling and ominous.
Ghadyanloo's aesthetic inspiration can be traced to the otherworldly landscapes of European surrealist painters and the minimal lines of modernist 20th Century architecture. Yet underneath the themes the artist's work stem directly from his Persian heritage and also his experiences of anxiety and fear growing up in Iran under severe conditions of military conflict and economic sanction. The works are somber and melancholy in tone, almost silent. Yet throughout Spaces Of Hope Ghadyanloo introduces hope as a fleeting concept, all to often just out of reach yet ever present in our lives, and in the process underlines the power of hope.
This commentary is further informed by Ghadyanloo's perspective on world affairs through his status as an internationalised artist regularly moving across borders. Thus, at a time of huge global instability, Ghadyanloo aims to transport us into a different spatial dimension that invites us to consider our shared humanity with respect to our hopes and fears. In this way Ghadyanloo's paintings become meditations on the universality of all of our existences. Spaces Of Hope offers an at times somber worldview albeit one where the beauty and hope remain and where there is still a possibility of a better future for all.
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