Another experience is collaborative work with itinerant ironworkers. I collected rusty iron with paint peeling off by the river and I asked the blacksmiths to shape them as I wanted. I was there as a pupil and in some stages I shaped the iron into human figures. I experienced tempering. The Tempered People are solid […]
During my travels around the world I often use red Soil of Hormoz Island and I make my designs on the face of girls. One of the concepts of this collection is the eating of the forbidden fruit. Which fruit is forbidden? Why was it eaten? When artists from different culture visualize their myths and […]
The collaborative art project with animals that I called “Salt Sculpture” was very exciting. I installed salt rocks in a farm with animals. Goats, sheep and lambs had a strong desire to lick those salt rocks. Their licks created dimples on the salt. I was looking to get primitive visages out of these salt rocks. […]
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Paradise Art Center in Tehran
Paradise Art Center in Tehran is a permanent gallery of environmental artist Ahmad Nadalian. Many of my artworks and documents of Ahmad Nadalian’s journeys can be seen in the Paradise Art Center in Tehran. This place is a permanent studio and gallery that displays some of his works in the east of Tehran. When he […]
Paradise Art Gallery also have a gallery in Qeshm city and Laft costal village in Qeshm Island showing the artworks of women and the collaborative project of Ahmad Nadalian with local community. Over the many years he has taught painting to the women of the island. The interaction is rich and he hope to provide […]
Dr. Ahmad Nadalian’s house is located in the main alley and center of the historical part of Laft. Artist created a conceptual wall. Even when the door is closed through a small window or seven apertures, it is possible to see, hear, touch and suck art behind the wall. If, day and night, anyone passes […]
Dr. Nadalian’s museum offers free education in the field art creation for children. We payed to the invited expert teacher and provide color and educational aids for teaching. Flowing color in the right of all people who lives. When children laugh angels in heaven dancing. […]
In Dr. Ahmad Nadalian Museum we have free Education for Children. With the support of many artists, individuals and institutions a budget for free education is provided and we can pay the local teachers who teach culture, protection of ecology and the English language. We used the museum budget to clean polluted environments and the […]
After participating in the exam in February 1983, I was accepted as a painting student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University. من در سابقه ام در دوران راهنمایی و دبیرستان دو سال مردودی داشتم. اما هم سن سایر دانشجویان پسر بودم. چون آنهایی که زودتر درسشان تمام شده بود به سربازی رفته […]
After the revolution, my interest in art, especially painting, increased. The first time that the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art reopened in September 1979, I went to the museum and saw the works of art of the Revolution, and since then I have been following the museum’s exhibitions. I later found out that communist artists […]