Simultaneously at Opening of the 7th “Serv- Simin” Festival;
Granting a “National Unity” Tableau to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts
Simultaneously at the opening of the 7th Fajr International Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Festival, Fardin Sadegh Ayoubi, a prominent visual arts artist, presents “National Solidarity” the painting Tableau to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.
According to the news agency of the 7th Fajr International Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Festival (Serv-e Simin-e 7), Fardin Sadegh Ayubi; the prominent visual arts artist regarding the “National Unity” tableau said: I worked on this artwork for about seven months. I believe the work which is for the people and comes from the heart, should be presented to the people. Symbols of Iranian culture are used in this work, which are known to us throughout history; From the Marlik Cup to the archeological remnants found in Khaje Mountain in Sistan. Also, elements from other Iranian ethnic communities, native and local clothes, etc. joined hands together and this tableau was created.
Regarding the necessity for creating this work he stated: the necessity for creating such an artwork has always been a concern in my artistic life. The unity of Iranian peoples in historical periods together, cultural relatives who have learned from each other and have learned to live together, love, compassion and mutual respect, a land full of wonder, beauty, wisdom, and… the journey I have had in this artwork based on historical self-awareness, means examining and questioning the nature of thinking from the beginning of its formation in the historical period to the present. The visual elements in the artwork are derived from this criterion of godliness, because polytheism and paganism have had no history and record in any distant historical periods in Iran.
The selected painter of the third biennial exhibition of Iranian painters added: When the historical and cultural characteristics of a nation lack thought, what remains is cultural pretension. Such a culture is not able to create an inherent unity in its affairs, and the ground for syncretic and idiosyncratic cultures is created. In the face of the current situation of the contemporary world, which threshes and reaps the threshing floor of all cultures, only our centers of attention and thinking are a reliable support, because unlike the theory of globalization and the global village, the only way to enter this culture is the national culture, turning our backs on it and ignoring historical facts.
Sadegh Ayubi said: This painting tableau is designed in the dimensions of 2 meters and 20 centimeters by 3 meters with oil paint technique and circle-based composition. All Iranian ethnic communities are placed together in this tableau with all the aesthetic effects of local clothes and costumes and ontological sadness on the grave of a martyr who is the children of all Iranian ethnic communities.
In the end, the creator of the “National Unity” tableau stated: The top part of the panel is a half-moon form, which is influenced by Islamic Iranian architecture and wishes to pass through the new metaphysics and open to the sublime. In the upper center of tableau, the Iranian Islamic Shamseh and inside the form which shows the plurality in unity and unity in plurality, two black and golden circles which are a manifestation of nonexistence and existence and the essence of unity, the flag of the holy system of the Islamic Republic is put on the chest of the martyr, and the face of the martyr It is in eternal peace.
Fardin Sadegh Ayubi, a famous Iranian painter, writer and artist, was born in Sanandaj in 1952. After finishing high school, he entered the art academy and after graduation, he turned to painting professionally. Some of the activities and honors of Fardin Sadegh Ayoubi include: holding more than 40 individual and collective exhibitions at the national and international level, the selected painter of the “International World Painters Festival” (1997 AD, New Delhi, India), the selected painter of the third biennial exhibition of Iranian painters. He is also the author of more than 50 cultural articles that have been published in national, local and Iraqi Kurdistan publications.
The 7th edition of “Fajr International Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Festival” (Sarv-e Simin-e7), will be held on 15-23 February at National Museum of Iran.