“Poushosh” Collages are totally and fundamentally conceptual. For their creation is based on mere idea and concept. And technique and material are the secondary elements in them not the main. Some of the chosen material such as extracts from fashion journals would be ruined or forgotten if they weren’t used in these collections. But this collage revived them, reanimated them with a new life and function. Above all they have helped the artist and the artist has helped them.
“Poushosh” Collages are totally and fundamentally conceptual. For their creation is based on mere idea and concept. And technique and material are the secondary elements in them not the main. Some of the chosen material such as extracts from fashion journals would be ruined or forgotten if they weren’t used in these collections. But this collage revived them, reanimated them with a new life and function. Above all they have helped the artist and the artist has helped them.
title. Div-O-Delbar (Beauty And The Beast )
# As if They Always Belonged To Each Other
date. 2012
size. ~ 212 x 34 x 36 cm
materials. Vintage dolls, Tin, Glass, Rock, Metal
concept & background.
…is about the fairy-tale love story
between the beautiful Belle and an enchanted prince.
because of his rudeness, the prince once transformed into a beast by a witch.
...Only if
the beast,
falls in love,
or beloved
by others,
the curse would be broken.
statement.
“Browsing flea markets and generally gathering knick-knacks of the past has always been an amusing hobby, which recently, it seems to have turned into an addiction. I gravitate toward and end up purchasing things that attract and interest me or pick my curiosity, not for collection purposes, but with an intention of using them eventually, somehow. I keep them in a special chest until such time my imagination grants me and them a new birth and a new purpose.
An artist, through his creative process, matches and brings together seemingly unrelated things and when he is done, the final product is a harmonious piece that seems; as if the materials always belonged to each other.
During one of my -never ending- rummages across free markets, I found once an amazing doll with such a damaged figure (literally and metaphorically), with dazzling blue eyes. That's what made it absorbing!”
✒︎ Farshido
