Arvin Golrokh’s show “Fenice Ante Fata Resurgo” will be extended trough September and will continue to be on display at Primo Marella Gallery Lugano (Exhibition Space 2).
• About the artist:
Arvin Golrokh (Teheran, 1992) is an Iranian artist, based between Teheran and Torino (Italy), where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 2012. His latest field of research concerns the comparison between the experiences in his homeland and the newer ones in the Western world. The main focus is on how and in which direction the society and the government try to control and influence people’s vision.
Taking into account this consideration, he states the importance of keeping a clear and independent point of view on the world and on life. With this in mind, his family’s experiences and his past in Teheran has provided several tools to understand and analyse control dynamics. Golrokh focuses especially on few matters that he considers essential. The first one is the image used as tool of propaganda in order to suggest to the collective image an influenced and influencing vision. Given vision sometimes enhances and emphasises positive or engaging or comforting features of the current social organisation, however, in other occasions it utterly conceals and hides the more inconsistent and contradictory aspects.
Fenice, Ante Fata Resurgo, aims to explore the symbolism of the phoenix, between darkness and hope. The featured works depict an apocalyptic landscape shrouded in darkness, in which oppression and hardship seem to extinguish any glimmer of light. And yet, from this bleak scenario emerges the instinct of human survival, like an open wound in the heart of darkness. Just as the phoenix rises from its ashes, these paintings embody the possibility of rebirth — a rebirth that germinates from the very abyss of despair. The current state of disrepair, the hallmark of our time, is made visible in these works and invites the spectator to a critical awareness. This process becomes a plea to recognize the deceptions and justifications of contemporary society. It is a reflection that transcends the aesthetic dimension and reaches a deeper philosophical level.
