Reza Khodadadi

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Records management and administrative responsibility

Perplexity by Lines

The Works of Reza Khodadadi present various of aspects of assembling patterns and shapes alongside each other in mixed media. Continuity and colored material play an integral part in his art. His love for Rum′s poetic narrative to his paintings. in series 'Heyrani'(Perplexity) the viewers face an abstract work which allows them to make a literal 'Reading' of visual expression. The Perplexity series is Created with carefully drawn overlapping lines. These lines stand out in the background even though they are at times diluted, and their resemblance to straw and hay gives the painting the feel of a landscape. These landscapes seem distant from eastern landscapes yet during his creative process Khodadadi distances his work from these familiar scenes. The over-stacking and criss- crossing of lines confer on the painting a feeling of pattern. Straight lines begin to curl and give a feel of wind and dishevelment that can be fathomed as tantamount to perplexity or bewilderment. The Contrasting lines play an integral part in the aesthetics of this painting while the colors are form the same group (unless used for background spacing). Line segments are the simplest of visual ingredients, yet the artist, through detailed stacking and shading, has turned them into patterns.A sort of optical illusion is produced by this stacking that concentrates how they are viewed. This can clearly be seen in the works of Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) and Bridget Riley (b.1931) whose works stress the relationship of form and narrative. In fact Khodadadi endeavors to portray these accomplishments of modern painting on a few level in his work. The envisioning of either a waxing or waning process while looking at the Perplexity(Bewildered) series is an example of this artifice. The relief-type textures Khodadadi also adhere to the amassing of one form and its transformations. By changing integral aspects of shapes, patterns and patina he creates diversity within the redundant rhythm of shapes. The painting of Khodadadi′s 'Perplexity' series focus on the flow of a landscape and its transformation to patterns and on how a chaotic atmosphere and immense and graduated space can be reproduced on canvas or vice versa.It is as if perspective appears and disappears through the brushing aside of the fields of straw. Simultaneously these are simply works of art with visual elements that under their own layers find connections to literary subjects.

Exhibitions

Several solo exhibitions in :Golestan Gallery, Barg Gallery, Haft Samar Gallery, Mah Art Gallery,Hoor Art Gallery and Boom art Gallery. Participation in the collective exhibition of more than 140 domestic and foreign.

Artwork in Museums

25 paintings, sculptures and Reliefs in Museums.