5/12/2023 0 Comments Open with kami![]() Over the subsequent decade he produced multipart works, including Untitled (18 Portraits) (1994–95). There, he started work on Self-Portrait as a Child (1990), which marks the beginning of a series of paintings, drawings, and photographic works based on a picture of himself as a boy in Iran. In 1984, Kami moved to New York, where he continues to live and work. There he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne-from which he graduated in 1981-and subsequently at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français. Following high school, and after a year spent in Berkeley, California, he moved to Paris. ![]() He painted from early childhood, sometimes with his mother (who worked for a time under the well-known Persian academic painter Ali Mohammad Heydarian ), and was exposed to both Western and Near Eastern influences, particularly the paintings of the European masters and the verses of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Persian poets. ![]() In his abstract works, Kami extends this interplay of surface and interior through forms inspired by architecture, geometry, poetry, and, more recently, hazy, oneiric imagery. Rendered in matte oil paint on linen, these meditative images recall Byzantine frescoes and Fayum funerary portraits, locating the unknown and the infinite in material form and presence. In large-scale portraits based on his own photographs, he restages face-to-face encounters, using sfumato to depict family, friends, and strangers with eyes open or closed, gazing straight ahead or looking down. Kami explores the flux between matter and spirit, external appearance and inner life. In paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures, Y.Z.
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