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Earth Paintings - Hormoz Island March 2009
Do you know that you can rent this bicycle in Hormoz?
Archetypal story: Earth painting
A gift of Persian Gulf from me to people and from people to tourists
Transformation of ugliness to beauty
A ritual for rain & feet traces
Thanks to Mr Zarshenas and Salamati, members of the city canciel in Hormoz. They provided the bicycle of peace. Hasan and Aboulrasoul Daryapeima who facilitated my projects. Khadijeh Khonjizadeh,
Alireza Mahwari Habib Abadi the head of Persian Gulf Marine Environmental research center who hosted me in their center and Kaniz family (her mother , daughter and son) who cooked food for me...
PARADISE (PARDIS) is a celestial garden. The words of paradeisos in Greek, paradise in European languages, and firdaws in Arabic, originally came from Persia the "Avestan pairi-daeza" , meaning garden, itself was the terrestrial image of the celestial garden of paradise. The term of paradise also means a piece of land made more agreeable than its surroundings by cultivation or an enclosure, and especially a royal park. In the Islamic religious text paradise (firduws), is described as an eternal spring and garden with which the trees have continuous blossoms and everything is joyful. In this garden, there is no time and its inhabitants are all young. According to Sufis, paradise is the manifestation of absolute beauty and the inhabitants of "Paradise" enter into every beautiful form that they conceive and desire . Moslem mystics simply interpreted paradise as being the good deeds of man.
Journey across South Africa: The Sprit of Rocks and Water
Calendar of our journey in South Africa
Paradise & Hell :18th Environmental Art Festival
Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.
An Iranian sculptor brings his art to the river, beaches—and parks.
On the first January 2008 we received British sculptor, Benjamin Hewett (Ben) who came to our Paradise. On the 2nd of April 2008, Ben went back home. Before he left I give him one of my carvings which had a design of a bird. I called this bird “the Bird of Peace”. Ben will take it home and make a nest in a hollow of a tree where he lives and this bird will start a new life.
Sculpture Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 2) March 2008
Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Gulf
Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy
Environmental Installations and Performance
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Performance and Environmental Installations
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Environmental Installations and Performance
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Performance and Environmental Installations
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
More: Painting on fabric by colored Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Environmental Installations and Performance
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Performance and Environmental Installations
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (More Works) (December 2007)
Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (December 2007)
Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival
Works in Rock Creek River- Washington DC
Red People - Kansas City Missouri
Carved Stones in Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Reaction to ignoring historic site
Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival
Report: Kerman Environmental Art Festival
Dream of Peace in Persian Gulf
Utne Magazine May-June 2006 USA
Ahmad Nadalian
Nadalian: River Art An interview by John K. GRANDE Nadalian is an Iranian sculptor whose life's work involves engendering respect for living creatures and the natural environment. To achieve this, besides living with nature himself, he established sculpture grounds in a peaceful environment in natural surroundings. Water is a living element that contributes to his sculptures, and many of the symbols he engraves and sculpts are derived from ancient mythology and the rituals of pre-Islamic civilizations. more
By carving simple fish shapes and other forms onto small stones and river rocks, artist Ahmad Nadalian seeks to repopulate the spirit of neglected streams and rivers in his native Iran and around the world and share these treasures with future generations ... Over the past decade the artist has frequently traveled to cities and remote regions and locations in every continent to work with children and local residents to create countless treasures ... more
About Ahmad Nadalian
"I was so impressed with your concept, working at low tide in the early mornings to carve signs that during the day would be concealed. It calls into question so much about time, history, language, meaning, and sculpture." More
Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.
Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.
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Report by Ahmad Nadalian Photos by Raheleh Zomorodina (Minosh and Ahmad Nadalian)
Last month (April 2009) an Environmental Arts Festival was held in the central desert of Iran, near Isfahan .
Artists in a truckbed, going towards the salty sea of Gawkhoni
We stopped by a sand hill and I printed my new cylinder seals. I was followed by two young filmmakers Lila and Saber who are making a documentary about my recent works.
Work by Mahtab
I used Hormuz red earth to draw flamingos.
Pure red earth on a salty, wet platform.
Snakes and humans.
Snake and fish.
My German friend Sibyll kalff sends here childhood polar bears. She asked me to take them along on one of my journeys. Here, in the salty sea, they seem to be in North Pole!
Work by Fershteh The other artists created many other projects.
Work by Noshin
Work by Mahmoud
My circle
Black mountain beside Talab Gawkhoni
Collaborative project Some artist assisted me to create this big snake.
Mitra and Sanke
Work by Minosh
We will restore nature
Work by a young artist from Isfahan
We remember our childhood and where we came from.
Mahmoud ask them is time for conference
Our conference
My light installation and tree
During the festival I presented my recent cylinder seals which show birds and snake. I printed these cylinder seals on the desert terrain.
My sand print installation in a house.
The migration of flamingos in April, by Talab Gawkhoni .
Work by Mehdi Hunting is forbidden, but as evidence shows, how many flamengos were hunted !
I also printed my snakes
A pigeon tower Pigeon Tower (Borj-e-Kabotar) is a strange building that lookes like a cylinder from outside. This three story structure is built around a central cylinder-shaped wall with holes in it.
The function of this building is to protects
pigeons especially in winter from the cold. It was also advantageous to
farmers in the days of old, as the waste collected from these pigeons
could be used as a natural fertilizer.
This pigeon tower is under demolition
Minosh in pigeon tower
A pigeon, by Aref
I found two fragmented pieces of pottery near the pigeon tower and drew pigeons. As an ode to the pigeon tower, I placed a piece of this pottery back inside it.
A destroyed pigeon tower on a farm. There has been a significant drop in pigeon tower numbers from the thousands reported in seventeenth century accounts of Safavid Isfahan by French traveler Chardin, to the present day count of approximately a hundred remaining in the entire province. As an environmental artist, I would say we need to protect existing ones and build more. By doing so, man and nature can live in optimal harmony; the best way is that of an organic life and organic agriculture.
In Warzaneh I also found a fragmented tile and carved my fish
In Warzaneh women traditionally wear white veils. This is another impression of Iran. It may rooted to ancient Zoroastrian tradition.
On our way to Isfahan, I saw the dome of a mosque behind an empty factory. Juxtaposed with such magnificent and ancient architecture, I also came upon this cell phone tower. What sort of view is this? We are living in strange time.
We can compare it to this mosque in Isfahan.
An old building which seemed as if it was looking and speaking to me.
Mithra in coach.
I had a presentation in the coach
Last photo in train rail way station
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