Ab-Anbar is pleased to present Hyle - Dark Light, Seyed Amin Bagheri's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Bagheri creates an immersive environment with twenty five monumental graphite drawings on suspended cotton fabric, where larger-than-life, ambiguous figures envelop the viewer. Drawing from the Persian mystical concept of the unity of opposites and the eternal conflict of Ahriman and Ahura, his figures are not purely evil but are ambiguous phenomena that are both strange and familiar. The exhibition constructs a space where the binary boundaries between the self and the other, the beautiful and the monstrous, begin to dissolve.
Seyed Amin Bagheri, (b.1981, Rasht, Iran), lives and works in Rasht. He studied painting at Azad university, Tehran. Amin is an interdisciplinary artist whose works create a strong link between language (literature), visual art and philosophy. Bagheri, a multimedia artist, considers drawing one of his primary mediums and a means of storytelling. Concrete events, dreams, and fantasies merge in his works serve as both a personal and subjective testimony. Bagheri employs forms of representation that deviate from the laws of linear perspective, distributing the viewer's attention sometimes within a labyrinthine structure, where each image functions as a word in a long sentence, reminiscent of Arabic, Persian, or Indian customs.
Bagheri's recent solo exhibitions include A home 2, Pune, India (2019); Grafenberg Area, Etemad Gallery, Tehran (2016); Double Creativity, an Iranian Artists’ Forum, Mirmiran Gallery, Tehran (2009). He has been featured in numerous group shows including: National Gallery of Macedonia, , Macedonia (2019); Upcoming Iranian Artists, Pro Art Gallery (2013), Dubai.
