انعکاس شاعرانگی یک نقاش – نمایش آثار یاری استوانی در گالری آریا مهرنوش علی مددی اولین نمایشگاه انفرادی نقاشی های یاری استوانی در ایران و در برنامه ی اخیر گالری آریا به نمایش درآمد. استوانی نقاشی است که بیشتر عمر خود را در آمریکا سپری کرده و با دستاوردهای آکادمیک و تجربی در زمینه ی نقاشی و سالها فعالیت هنری در این حوزه توانسته شیوه ای شخصی و زبانی منحصر به فرد را کسب کند و در طول مسیر خود ردپای اصالت و ریشه های فرهنگی را نیز نادیده نپندارد. استوانی با سپری کردن تجربه […]
Yari Ostovany
A rumination on the push and pull of energies underground as they undulate and billow below the surface, manifesting as cracks/forms on the surface of concrete sidewalks, translating these interaction of energies into light, shone upon and/or emanating from within. Inkjet transfer of digital images of cracks in sidewalks with Encaustics applied on panels. Click here for more info and to place your order
Amanollah Ghahraman For me Yari Ostovany’s art is a window into the human soul. Each time I see the same work, I can find another totally new expression, new emotion, new pain, new depth, new possibility and new level of freedom.Sometimes this window becomes a mirror that shows me things, emotions, experiences, memories that I have been resisting to look at.Ostovany’s paintings as he says are “Personal” but sometimes they are so authentic, so honest and so deep that they can touch those common threads within us, which we can see in whole humanity.Normally when
Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan Contributors: Aydin Aghdashloo, Shiva Balaghi, Peter Chekowki, Hengameh Fouladvand, Mehdi Hosseini, Abdolmajid Hosseini-Rad, Rose Issa, Faryar Javaherian, Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Edward Luci-Smith, Ulrich Marzolph, Sharon L. Parker, Hamid SeveriLiaoning Creative Press335 pages, 2011 More info here
Dr. Grant Leneaux The Latin poet Horace famously stated that the purpose of poetry is to produce “delectare et prodesse”, to delight and enlighten the reader or listener. Yari Ostovany’s work can be seen as a pictorial translation of that dictum. While his paintings are instantaneously and effortlessly compelling, they do not yield themselves fully at first view. Their “meaning” is not accessible on the surface. They make their demands on the viewer. Demands of a philosophical as well as aesthetic order. Both intellectual and emotional demands of a high order. Yari Ostovany is truly
Art in Embassies (AIE), a U.S. Department of State program, creates vital cross-cultural dialogue and fosters mutual understanding through the visual arts and dynamic artist exchanges.AIE develops and presents approximately 60 exhibitions per year and has installed over 70 permanent art collections in more than 200 of the Department’s diplomatic facilities in 189 countries.To accomplish the mission, AIE engages over 20,000 international participants, including artists, museums, galleries, universities, and private collectors. More info here