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Gohar Dashti

by Gohar Dashti

'80 Class, born and still lives in Tehran, Gohar Dashti is witnessing a period of the most critical of the recent history of this country (Iran, ed). With his art gives voice to a generation that has had to deal with collective tragedies soon became painful personal stories. Gohar was born while Iran was overwhelmed by the Islamic Revolution, violently reversing the pattern of social and religious then, in favor of a government based on the rule of strict Koranic. While it took its first steps instead, consumption if the Iran-Iraq bloody war (1980-1988), eight years during which claimed the lives of more than eight hundred thousand young martyrs. ... INSIDE OUT, This is the title of the exhibition curata da Silvia Cirelli, proposes a course more cultural and artistic, which make up the contradictions of a contemporary conditioned continuously by the specter of social conflicts, political, public (the outside), who invariably resonances on the private lives of Iranians, on their intimate sphere (the inside). The art of Gohar Dashti surprising sophistication for a sharp, showing torment, but with subtle metaphors that only crossing the barrier of the apparent objectivity may include. Nothing is explicit, on the contrary, the truth is revealed to be a puzzle of hidden elements, who discover suggestions hitherto unacknowledged.- from publisher's web page.