Biography: Shahrzad Salehipour
Shahrzad Salehipour was born in Tehran in 1961. She did her artistic training at the Tehran Niavaran Art Centre. Over the past twenty years Salehipour has been teaching Persian miniature painting at various universities and institutions in Iran and carrying out extensive research on modern and traditional paintings. During her career Salehipour has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions in countries ranging from Iran to Japan, Romania, Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait, India France, and England. She has won several prizes including the Artist of the Year Prize from the Iranian President’s Foundation which recognized her as one of Iran’s leading women artists. This painter has been highly influenced by Persian mythology and by the ancient Iranian prophet Mani who depicts the world through light and dark, which to Salehipour is an aesthetic reflection and a wish for the salvation of the soul. To her the aim of Man is to reach the height of light and beauty by freeing himself from a world of ugliness. To portray this belief Salehipour uses gold as absolute light and purity, in contrast to silver and flat textured surfaces of paint which she uses to point to the soft and delicate beauty hidden in existence. She believes that without a deep knowledge of our past there can be neither innovation nor modernity. She is interested in the achievements of modernism and postmodernism in art and has been studying them both in Iran and abroad. However, she has come to believe that countries with different traditions should think about western modernism and that it is only by studying their own roots that they can achieve an indigenous form of modernism. Only then can they hope to produce their contemporary artistic identity. Salehipour is presently living and working in Tehran.
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