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Solo Exhibitions:
1993 Bamdad Gallery
1993-1994-1995 Golestan Art
Gallery
2005 Mah Gallery
Group Exhibitions:
1993 International Fair -
Specialized exhibition of China,
Tile and Ceramic
1996 Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art-Winner of the
Best Glaze Mixture Award
1998 Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art-Two yearly
exhibition
1994-1995-1996-1997-1998-1999-2000-2001
International Fair - Specialized
exhibition of China, Tile and
Ceramic
2003 Japan-Tokyo - The
exhibition was held during
Iran’s cultural week in Tokyo
2004 Home of Artists Art
Gallery
Some time a go after
choosing the village life over
the city life i moved from
Tehran to the Province of Gilan
in the
north of Iran near the Caspian Sea. A
province where pottery has a
long tradition and it is
interwoven in the everyday
fabric of life. I gradually became
interested in pottery making and
eventually started my own
pottery workshop in
1365 (1985). Step by step through trail and
error and by learning from the
local potters experience my
hands gradually
learned the ways of clay. Later on i was
able to color my hand made
pottery by applying inorganic
colors to it.
As by profession my focuses in
life is the sole of man, i tried
to improve on the traditional
pottery with the aim of
getting it to the peoples houses
not only as a useful utensil but
also as a art form. In fact i
wanted my audience to
be the general public, i wanted
them to feel the energy of hands
that created and made the
pottery when they
became into contact with it.
Currently with a small workshop
that employees 4 trained local
workers i am the only producer
of verity of hand made
–not machine made– clay
utensils, baked in traditional
kerosene stoves heated by
kerosene. As the source of
variety
in pottery, that has been so far,
in Gilan is basically the human
need, in my work while
maintaining the essence of local
tradition i have directed my
creativity on usability and
variety of the pottery. I have
also have tried to change its
form from traditional
concepts. In essence my work is a
mix of tradition and modernity
that releases the pottery from
the boring old forms of the past
to something new and pleasant.
My production process consists
of a work wheel and varand for
flat work surfaces. The pottery
after being baked at the
temperature of 980 is re-glazed
and is baked a second time and
some times for the third time.
Following the tradition
of the local potters in Gilan,
initially i experimented with
the local clay. As in
temperature of 980 on one hand
the
sand particles in the local clay
become hallow and resulted in
the pottery breaking into bits
and on the other hand the
local clay did not lend itself
to glazing therefore i was
forced to get the potters clay
from another province in west
of Iran namely Hamadan.
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