Hiva Alizadeh
1989/Tehran-Iran
The landscape can be an extremely volatile and ephemeral subject. The sky is constantly changing, nature is never still, colorus are repeatedly transforming and, consequently, our perception is also affected.
Often, when we have the impression of having caught a static image, it has already become something else. It can happen almost imperceptibly, but it is a relentless dynamic.
Sometimes we remember the smells of the landscape, the noises of the place, our body temperature when we were immersed in it, the emotions that gave us. All this leads us to create an overall idea of the scenario we have experienced, which is not always a precise picture of what we have actually seen. What appears in our minds is an internalized vision.
This feeling seems to emerge from the works of Hiva Alizadeh, who offers us not merely a reproduction of some landscapes belonging to his native land, rather the perception he had in observing and walking through them.
The artist features works which, although intended to be hung on the wall, have an actual sculptural character. These are canvases on which strands of synthetic hair of infinite shades of colour are hand-sewn. Weaving is a traditional and ancient practice, but it belongs here more than ever to the present, because of the material used, which is definitely not canonical and undoubtedly related to our contemporary era.
There are countless overlaps made by the artist in the arrangement of the coloured threads, and it is precisely this that gives a marked three-dimensional effect to the works.
The sensation is the one of being in front of changing, vibrant and almost visionary landscapes, landscapes that, although speaking of emotions and personal sensations, are endowed with a strong and suggested tactility. Sceneries, those of Hiva, that even though they seem impalpable are the result of a dense material combination and that, despite the shocking and almost pop colours, express all the delicacy of an interiority that wishes to make itself manifest.
Giulia Frattini
HIVA ALIZADEH
Born in 1989 (Kerman-IRAN). Lives and works in Teheran, Iran.
Self-trained film-maker/artist Hiva Alizadeh started his career writing and directing experimental films documentaries before shifting his
focus to the creation of-sculptural (hair) works and installations.
Alizadeh's work is present in public and private collections throughout Europe, the Middle East, China and the USA, incluing important institutions and foundations such as AKZONOBEL Art Foundation – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, PALAZZO MONTI, Brescia, Italy, FREDERICK R. WEISMAN Art Foundation – Los Angeles, USA, SPRING Collection, KERMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran and most recently, The Ned Doha Art Collection.
Alizadeh began his career following the path of his father. An Experimental filmmaker. Since then. Hiva has achieved a more synthesized and personal form of expression that combines new media inspired by the decorative tradition of carpet weaving typical of his region.
The morphology of the Iranian landscape and the frequent visits of the artist in isolated areas of the country, lead Alizadeh to reproduce and reinterpret the colors of nature. Using for his vibrant compositions strands of synthetic hair with bright colours.
Another source of great inspiration for this artist is the stained glass windows of Persian mosques and the reflections of light they project onto the floor.
Many other transfigured elements create a complex imaginary, with sophisticated coloristic weaves.
The vaporous strands overlap and intersect, generating rhythms, voices and sounds of which the artist's perceptive background echoes.
COLLECTIONS
The Ned Doha Art Collection - Qatar
AKZONOBEL Art Foundation – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FREDERICK R. WEISMAN Art Foundation – Los Angeles, USA
Contemporary Art Museum KERMAN, Iran
RESIDENCIES
2022 PALAZZO MONTI , Brescia , Italy (April - May)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Singing Birds of Dawn, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2023 Fire in the Garden of Eden , The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2022 The Garden of Light, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2021 Double solo show with Osaretin Ugiagbe, The Flat/Sarahcrown booth, @UNTITLED Art, Miami Beach USA
2019 Nomad Chants, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2018 Width forty Length Fifty five, AKNOON Art Gallery, Esfahan, Iran
2017 Scenery, Shirin Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2017 Play, Shirin Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2016 Ping-Pong, Shirin Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2015 Mirror Calligraphy,Twenty six Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2013 Tree, Shahkaar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kerman, Iran
2012 Frames, Shahkaar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kerman, Iran
SELECTED GROUP and ART Fair EXHIBITIONS
2024 Threshold - The New Image Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Art Rotterdam, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023 Al Dente: a Feast for the Senses, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, UK
2023 Art Verona, Booth The Flat Massimo Carasi, Verona, Italy
2023 Birthing, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2023 THE ART OF INVESTING, Bank - ogSparekasse Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 ASIANOW Art Fair, Booth Etemad Gallery, Paris, France
2022 Art Toronto, Booth Robertson Ares Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 Solid Air - The Flat Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2022 Art Verona, Booth The Flat Massimo Carasi, Verona, Italy
2022 ALT - Robertson Ares Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2022 Dallas Art Fair, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Dallas, USA
2022 Structure of a Flow, METRONOM Gallery, Modena, Italy
2021 Untitled Art fair, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi Miami, USA
2021 Art Rotterdam, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021 If walls could talk - The Flat Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2021 ArtVerona Digital Yellow, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Italy
2020 ArtVerona Digital Yellow, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Italy
2020 VOLTA New York, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi New York, USA
2020 Art Rotterdam, Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019 Bienvenue art Fair – Booth The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Paris, France
2019 VOLTA art Fair - Booth C06 - The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Enter Art fair, Booth Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
2018 Thin three-dimensionality – The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2018 Bienvenue art Fair - Booth #1 - The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Paris, France
2018 Contemporary artists, ARIANA Art gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 SPRING Collection, Contemporary Art museum-KERMAN, Iran
2015 The Annual Exhibition of selected sculptors Under Age of 35, Shirin Art Gallery Tehran, Iran
Movies (Director and Writer)
2020 Balochistan Project – Documentry film, Zahedan, Iran
2013 Landscape short film – director and writer, Tehran, Iran
2012 Cobble short film – director and writer, Tehran, Iran
2010 Sad short film – director and writer, Tehran, Iran
Festivals
2023 stARTup ART PRIZE / Awarded, ARTVERONA Prize, ITALY
2021 CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE / 40 Selected Artists, DUCATO Prize, ITALY
2018 SCULPTURE BIENAL – Contemporary art Museum, Kerman, Iran
2017 Sound Installation - Experimental Music Festival, Kerman, Iran
2016 Chenaay Fesitval of Land Art , India
2015 The Annual Exhibition of Selected Sculptors Under Age of 35, Tehran, Iran
Links
https://www.artsy.net/artist/hiva-alizadeh
https://www.artland.com/artists/hiva-alizadeh
https://www.artfoundation.akzonobel.com/artist/708/hiva-alizadeh
http://www.carasi.it/pages/CV/hivaalizadeh_CV.pdf
https://galleryviewer.com/en/artwork/34245/untitled
https://selectionsarts.com/curated-by-kamiar-maleki-2/
https://wsimag.com/art/66904-if-walls-could-talk