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Shabahang
Tayyari
Painting
or
“art”
in
general,
is
not
something
pre-defined,
holy
or
ritual
for
Shabahang
Tayyari.
It
is
an
everyday
game
that
he
has
been
following
with
thorough
consciousness
and
skill
for
years.
This
constant
trial
has
enabled
him
to
create
his
own
original
games
which
he
can
destroy,
renew
or
discard
when
he
wishes.
Every
day
games
to
which
he
is
addicted…
Anything
can
be
found
in
Shabahang’s
paintings
and
concepts;
from
portraying
a
spaceship
and
playing
with
taboos
to
memories,
poetry
and
pure
art
itself.
Apart
from
their
visual
novelty,
what
makes
his
works
unique
and
exclusive
is
joking
with
clichéd
concepts
of
art
and
science.
For
instance,
he
makes
a
five-wheel
bicycle
that
is
of
no
use
or a
door
that
has
been
transformed
into
a
table.
He
emphasizes
on
and
plays
with
the
fossil-like
fixed
patterns
of
human
minds
while
using
them
in
his
pieces.
The
image
of
an
object
like
a
bicycle
or a
calculator
which
resembles
the
image
of
mountains,
trees
and
birds
in
the
mind
of a
man
today,
is
defamiliarized
with
a
modern
ironic
concept
and
eventually
refined
into
a
pure
work
of
art.
In
other
words,
he
takes
advantage
of
our
memories
from
media,
technology
and
arts
to
his
own
benefit
and
without
giving
clichéd
nostalgic
images
to
his
works,
destroys
memory
with
memory
and
creates
a
contemporary
piece
of
art
that
reminds
us
more
of
the
future
rather
than
the
past.
It
is
as
if
his
sculptures
have
been
made
by a
19th-century
inventor
for
the
future
and
this
invention
is
perceived
as
an
art
work
years
later.
He
does
not
only
confine
to
ready-mades,
but
also
benefits
from
the
melancholy
of
Dalli’s
Sculptures,
the
shock
of
Richard
Prince
and
contemporaries
like
Charles
Ray
as
much
as
he
does
from
knowing
Duchamp
and
Picabia.
While
there
is
no
attempt
to
erase
footprints
of
these
artists,
in
one
of
his
works,
he
pours
his
new
solution
in
an
aquarium,
in
order
to
demonstrate
a
rusty
future
and
a
vivid
past.
Vahid
Sharifian
2014
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