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Group
Exhibition
Oriental
Revelation
Oriental
Revelations
Art,
especially
oriental
art,
is
not
a
culturally
passive
element
and
contributes
actively
to
the
culture.
The
theories
of
some
anthropologists
of
art
such
as
William
Buller
Fagg,
Nancy
D.
Munn,
Anthony
Forge
and
Daniel
Biebuyck
emphasize
this
dynamic
contribution
since
they
believe
that
an
artistic
work
is
meaningfully
expressive
of
the
values
of
its
creator’s
society
and
its
creation
is
the
recreation
of
the
culture
itself.
They
also
believe
that
artistic
works
have
a
structure,
intend
to
communicate
and
are
in
relation
with
holy
sources.
We
well
know
that
there
are
two
methods
of
reflection
presently:
the
West’s
rationalistic
way
of
thinking
whose
bedrock
is
the
inductive
reasoning
based
on
experimentation
and
examination,
and
the
East’s
intuitive
and
revelatory
way
of
thinking
which
is
based
on
mystic
experiences
and
goes
back
as
far
as
the
primitive
people’s
time.
The
revelatory
and
intuitive
way
of
thinking
has
been
always
important
among
eastern
people
and
as a
matter
of
fact,
the
eastern
rationality
is
fundamentally
different
from
that
of
the
West.
Though
the
western
art
has
deeply
influenced
Iranian
art
in
the
past
decades,
we
should
know
that
Iranian
art
is
not
an
outright
reflector
of
the
rationalistic
western
art.
One
of
the
central
differences
between
these
two
types
of
art
is
this
intuitive
way
of
thinking
dominant
in
eastern
art.
The
mainspring
of
this
exhibition
is
based
on
the
pictorial
representation
of
three
artists’
revelations
and
intuitive
discoveries.
They
have
revealed
three
distinct
and
traceable
types
of
exposures
in
their
works
via
western
techniques
with
an
emphasis
on
the
eastern
essence
of
their
souls
and
human
figures
as
the
principle
theme
of
their
works.
The
first
group
of
these
works
show
human
beings
in a
galactic
atmosphere
that
could
be
interpreted
as
the
signification
of
the
revelations
in
the
artist’s
mind.
The
second
group
indicate
the
artist’s
psychological
revelations
while
reporting
on
the
life
of
ordinary
people.
The
third
group
are
the
ones
in
which
the
artist’s
intuition
aims
at
an
archetypal
world
to
express
his
total
mental
picture
with
a
mosaic-like
collage
in a
variegation
of
patterns
and
colors.
Despite
their
seeming
technical
differences,
the
works
in
this
exhibition
give
us
an
analytical
picture
about
the
artists’
relation
with
their
environments,
its
people
and
the
general
conceptual
and
abstract
issues.
This
analysis
is
not
based
on
any
statistics
and
relies
only
on
the
artists’
discoveries
and
revelations
which
are
idiomatically
called
“conjectural
display.”
The
artists
of
this
exhibition
do
not
deem
it
necessary
to
be
the
portrayers
of
the
empirical
scientists’
findings
to
solidify
their
perceptions
with
such
scientific
evidences.
They
look
at
their
environment,
its
objects
and
people
with
perspicacious
and
enlightened
clear-sightedness.
They
try
to
depict
the
depth
of
humanity
and
objects
in
the
crowd
of
mean
material
forms,
in
the
maze
of
people’s
minds
and
fantasies
and/or
in
the
ambience
of
archetypal
worlds
in
order
to
be
able
to
portray
their
real
inner
truth
more
ethereally
and
profoundly
rather
than
concretely
and
analogously.
Written
by
Reza
Rafiei
Rad
Translated
by
Azadeh
Feridounpour
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