Press Release
O Gallery is pleased to announce the 4th edition of “3 on 3”, a valuable platform for emerging artists. Consisting of 4 exhibitions, each of these 2-week shows during the summer and winter, showcase the work of 3 artists. Each selected artist will present a solo body of work at one of the gallery’s individual spaces. The criteria for selection were talent, originality, promise and the ability to benefit from a smaller space allocated to their work.
The selected artists for the 2024 present a range of works, from works on paper to oil and acrylic canvases to photographs. Presenting the works of young and emerging artists has been O Gallery’s desire from the beginning and we hope to achieve a larger audience and benefit a larger crowd of artists though this program.
3 on 3 (II) aritsts:
Ardavan Entezari
Terme Ziaei
Farhad Yasavoli
In Ardavan Entezari's (b. 1995 Tehran) recent collection, "Walls and Things", we observe works of acrylic on canvas that combine the artist's mental images with those of confined environments that we live and work in. These images are in fact the result of studies from a number of masks molded from several faces, which together have created unusual scales. These faces, while dynamic have come to a standstill and with the play of light, shadows, and their curvatures are highlighted.
In her digital paintings from the series "All Our Yesterdays," Termeh Ziaei (b. 2001 Isfahan) creates images that convey tranquility amidst turmoil and simplicity amidst complexity. She achieves this by employing neutral color stains, utilizing the whiteness from the negative space between hatches and depicting vast skies and serene natures. The complexity of the lines challenges the viewer to discern whether the paintings are digital or hand-drawn, ultimately aiming to evoke a sense of contradiction in the audience.
Grasping and extracting a reading of the truth, from the form of “what is seen,” to the possibility of seeing “what has happened,” amid the noise and distortion that memory imposes on the human mind, resembles the search for identity among the ruins of memories. The constant presence of this subject in the pages of family albums, among photos that capture and represent these collective memories became the starting point for Farhad Yasavoli (b. 1987 Tehran) to breathe life into this distortion and confusion, creating the “Memorial” collection. An exploration with a playful spirit within images that have now themselves become raw material for creating a new visual sculpture of “self,” amidst fragments of old concepts and memories.
Selected Works
