ARTE Genova 2018

My face turned pale before the cold eyes of death

My body was frozen by the stare from the dark

I don’t want to think of anything,

but there’s storm of thoughts in my head

I wasn’t prepared for this, ’cause I’m not ready to die

For a Spartan male, the only way to gain a tombstone was to die in battle for the state. For a woman it was death in childbirth. All warriors lived for a beautiful death to give their lives in service of an ideal. The base elements of passion are pain and desire. Pain will make you change and Desire will make you reach beyond where you are and who you are. Passion is the matter / antimatter warp drive that gives you the intellectual light and the unwavering character strength to bend reality to your will. Spartan grew up and learned very little of individuality But still everyday in pain and his desire is having a beautiful death.

“Beautiful Death” is a selection of drawings, paintings, Photomontage of 46 talented Iranian and Afghan artist art works. They tries to express their fears, desire, hopes by referring to the real world, themself and people around them as their subjects. Presenting the transformations of humans in past, present and future. In fact, by fantasizing about what is and what could be. They tried to look at reality and find out their pain and desire. Although the name can be dark for some people but it is just our everyday sweet reality.

Artists list

Abdolrahman Mojarrad, Afra Khakzad, Amir Zarezadeh, Anahita Ghazanfari, Atiffeh Momennezhad Estalaki, Azad Pirayandeh, Damoon Haghgoo, Elmira Asl, Farzaneh Afshari, Farzin Rahneshin, Fatemeh AmirAhmedi, Fatemeh Pezeshki Moghadam, Fatemeh Sadat (Sohi) Hedayati, Fatimah Husaini, Hooman Abedian ah, Ida Hosseinan, Maede Shafiei, Mahsa Jafarian, Marisa Habibi Jouybari, Maryam Mirzaei Nigjeh, Mehdi Shadizadeh, Mehdi Mansouri, Mina Mallahnejad, Mitra Bostani Nasrabadi, Nikta Roknodini, Nima Ghari, Parastoo Kermani Nassab, Pardis & Parto Ahmadpour, Pedram Lesani, Reza Mozafari Manesh, Reza Razm, Roozbeh Hanghgoo, Saba Ahmadi Monfared, Setareh Taji, Shadi Saeedi, Shahriar Dastoomezhad, Shakiba Sattari Ghahfarokhi, Siavash Amirirad, Zahra Parkah, Zeynab (Sama) Rahmani Garmaroudi