Sourena Zamani

Sourena Zamani

Sourena Zamani was born in Tehran in 1990. He has a BA in painting from Azad University of Arts and Architecture and is a constant member of the Society of Iranian Painters. Zamani has held two solo exhibitions and has partaken in twelve group exhibitions.


“Landscapes”

Some subjects are so vast and unattainable, that when humans, with all his knowledge and insight, confront them, there remains nothing to be done but to bow in awe and wonder. Nature is something in which every detail is divided into smaller parts, and each of them can be as important as the turning of the wheel of existence itself. Sometimes man, despite all his knowledge, simply passes by such vastness, and in addition to his passing, he lives along the lines of its nonexistence. Anyhow, man is constantly throwing something off balance, which has been stable for quite a long time—even before dinosaurs. If only we could enjoy such immensity without having to manipulate it! Many of us have heard the South American saying, “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
On these works, I need to say that they are a representation of the glory and grandeur in which I have been present throughout the process of making these series. My physical presence in nature helped me induce the sense of man’s strangeness in nature, in an environment which is pure an unadulterated, by formal placement of colors. My goal was to bring about such complex equilibrium with utmost simplicity, which was only a minute part of such a great organic order, and which we have been destroying throughout the years, willingly or unwillingly. Needless to say, the colors are chosen according to my own taste, but choosing colors were something that nature, with her mountains and meadows, had engraved on my sub-conscious forever, lest I forget that the green of the tress, the blue of the ocean, and the yellow of the leaves, will always remain unattainable—may we not hasten the coming of her total destruction.
Soorena Zamani
2016

Sourena Zamani, “Milky River”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 cm, 2014
Surena Zamani, “A Safe Place In An Absolute Crowd”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “A Safe Place to Chill Out”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 cm, 2015
Sourena zamani, “An Old Disordered Tree in Do- Hezar Forest”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 cm, 2014
Sorena Zamani, “Big Rock Looking at The Stream”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Copse Behind The Bridge”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Copse With Shadow Striped Ground”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Corridor on The River”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Dark Side of The Hill”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 18 x 13 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Down The Hill With A Branch Out”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Forest in Fog”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Gaurdians Are Performing Their Ritual”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Grassy Knoll”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 25 x 35 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Rocks Funeral With Old Trees”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Siallan Mountain Range”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 25 x 35 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Stairwell River”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Tributary behind the Fish Farm II”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 cm, 2015
Sourena Zamani, “Two Branches River With Trees In Between”, from “Landscapes” series, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, 2014
Sourena Zamani, “Episode 01: Prolongation” a group exhibition, installation view, 2016
Sourena Zamani, “Episode 01: Prolongation” a group exhibition, installation view, 2016