Reza Khodadadi

ِ Reza Khodadadi
Reza Khodadadi (2015)
Born	(1961-02-26)26 February 1961 Ardabil
Nationality	Iranian
Known for	Painting, Sculpture, Mural, Public Art

Reza Khodadadi (Persian in رضا خدادادی born Ardabil),lives and works in Tehran. Iranian contemporary artist,^[1] Academic, painter, sculptor, Urban artist & Muralist^[2][3][4] Ph.d in Art Reseauch and Professor of Art, was born in 1961, Ardabil, Iran.^[5][6][7]

• Faculty member of Tehran University of Art.^[8][9]
• Author of "Mural techniques" book.^[10]
• Author of eight books in the field of urban murals Entitled "Rules and Regulations Urban Beautification".^[7]
• Authored several articles and essays.^[7]
• Project study “ Murals of Tehran: musts and musts not”.^[11]

Teaching Experience

Teaching experience in Universities and higher education institutions:^[7]

• Shahid Rajai University
• Islamic Azad University
• Sooreh Institute of Higher Education, (Sooreh University)
• Al-Zahra University School of Art
• Art University, since 1991.

Records management and administrative responsibility

• Painting Art University Department Manager (Head of Department of Painting, University of Art,Tehran )
• Head of Department of Sculpture, University of Art, Tehran)
• Head of B.A Department of Painting, Sooreh Higher Education Institute (Sooreh Art University), Tehran.
• Head of M.A Department of Painting, Sooreh Higher Education Institute, (Sooreh Art University), Tehran.
• Member of Mural(Graffiti) and sculpture Council, Beautification Organization of Tehran Municipality.
• Member of technical committee,Organization of Tehran Beautification.
• Secretary of the “New Thought Segment” the Tehran Beautification Organization.^[12]
• Staff member of A National Olympic Academy Art Museum and Research Center.
• Member of National Olympic Academy Museum Research Center Staff, National Olympic Academy.
• Member of Olympic Culture Commission Education.
• Art Council of National Olympic and Paralympic Academy.
• Member of jury and judge in several festivals and art competition
• Member of jury and judge, Art competition,National Olympic& Paralympic, Academy of Iran (two periods)
• Member of Iranian Association of Official Experts^[7][13]
• Expert of Association of Official in Art affairs Member of Iranian Association of Official Experts^{[7][8][14][15]}
• Honorary Member of Institute for Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art, Iran.^[7]
• Member of Scientific Committee and Jury of 2nd Iranian Lighting Design Conference and Professional Lighting Convention.^[16][17]
• Member of Scientific Committee and Jury of the 23rd International Exhibition of Home Furniture.(Tehran International Permanent Fairground).^[18]
• Member of Jury “The first National Award for Best Furniture ”(PFN AWARD 2014).^[19]

Painting

Perplexity by Lines

The Works of Reza Khodadadi present various of aspects of assembling patterns and shapes alongside each other in mixed media. Continuity and colored material play an integral part in his art. His love for Rum′s poetic narrative to his paintings. in series 'Heyrani'(Perplexity) the viewers face an abstract work which allows them to make a literal 'Reading' of visual expression. The Perplexity series is Created with carefully drawn overlapping lines. These lines stand out in the background even though they are at times diluted, and their resemblance to straw and hay gives the painting the feel of a landscape. These landscapes seem distant from eastern landscapes yet during his creative process Khodadadi distances his work from these familiar scenes. The over-stacking and criss- crossing of lines confer on the painting a feeling of pattern. Straight lines begin to curl and give a feel of wind and dishevelment that can be fathomed as tantamount to perplexity or bewilderment. The Contrasting lines play an integral part in the aesthetics of this painting while the colors are form the same group (unless used for background spacing). Line segments are the simplest of visual ingredients, yet the artist, through detailed stacking and shading, has turned them into patterns.A sort of optical illusion is produced by this stacking that concentrates how they are viewed. This can clearly be seen in the works of Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) and Bridget Riley (b.1931) whose works stress the relationship of form and narrative. In fact Khodadadi endeavors to portray these accomplishments of modern painting on a few level in his work. The envisioning of either a waxing or waning process while looking at the Perplexity(Bewildered) series is an example of this artifice. The relief-type textures Khodadadi also adhere to the amassing of one form and its transformations. By changing integral aspects of shapes, patterns and patina he creates diversity within the redundant rhythm of shapes. The painting of Khodadadi′s 'Perplexity' series focus on the flow of a landscape and its transformation to patterns and on how a chaotic atmosphere and immense and graduated space can be reproduced on canvas or vice versa.It is as if perspective appears and disappears through the brushing aside of the fields of straw. Simultaneously these are simply works of art with visual elements that under their own layers find connections to literary subjects.^[20]

Exhibitions

Several solo exhibitions in :Golestan Gallery, Barg Gallery, Haft Samar Gallery, Mah Art Gallery,Hoor Art Gallery^[21] and Boom art Gallery.^[22] Participation in the collective exhibition of more than 140 domestic and foreign.^[13]

Artwork in Museums

25 paintings, sculptures and Reliefs in Museums.^[21]

Gallery

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  The mosaic mural details influenced Persian painting by Reza Khodadadi.1
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  The mosaic mural details influenced Persian painting by Reza Khodadadi.2
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  City size replica model of Asmaul Husna 1. Designer Artist: Reza khodadadi-2010.
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  City size replica model of Asmaul Husna 2. Designer Artist: Reza khodadadi-2010.
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  City size replica model of Asmaul Husna 3. Designer Artist: Reza khodadadi-2010.
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  City size replica model of Asmaul Husna 4. Designer Artist: Reza khodadadi-2010.
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  City size replica model of Asmaul Husna 6. Designer Artist: Reza khodadadi-2010.

References

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