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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 Album Last month (March 2009) an environmental art festival was held in the western part of Persian Gulf. The festival has been held during Noruz holidays (Iranian New Year) in in Genaveh . One goal is to promote environmental art and education. Participants at the Festival made works using beach sand and rocks.
Work by Ahmadianfar
Work by Nourabadi
Collabrative work by Mahmoud Maktabi and Tara Godarzi
Work by Azri
Work by Mahmoud Maktabi
Collaborative work by Hesam and Mahmoud
During the festival I made presented my recent cylinder seal swhich show birds, fish and futus. I printed these cylinder seals along the beach.
During the fistival we organized a workshop and realized a collection of goddess. In this collaborative project, we use nanotechnology and made sand sculptors more solid.
According to many scientists, Nanotechnology is the science and technology of very small things. It is an exciting area of science and engineering that occurs at the atomic and molecular level. There are many different views of precisely what is included in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is being applied to a wide variety of fields, including electronics, optics, information technology, materials, homeland security, and medicine. However here we use this new science in the field of art . We were very exited to see combination of old myths, belief and new science.
ANAHITA or (NAHID) is the name of goddess of fertility. In ancient Persia it was believed that She is the source of all waters, upon the earth, fertility, purifying, the seed of all males. During the Islamic period Sufis mostly showed interest in the female beloved. In Sufi poetry, which is a highly technical language of love, woman is a symbol of Divine realities. The beauty of the beautiful face is a mirror in which we can observe the beauty of the Divine. However in recent decades feminism is an important issue. The reflection of this global movement can be seen in contemporary art.
I hide these goddess is some location related to the belief on goddess of fertility. One of the location was the temple of Anahita (Goddess of Water) in Bishapour.
I hide some goddess in Bishpour cave.
A historic site from Achamenide time (550 BC) known as Grave of Girl I also hided a goddess near this grave
A model of Girl Grave made by local people
This is a natural rock near this historic site. Local people believe that it shows a goddess. They also believe that water flow from her navel. She is source of water and life. I was very excited to discover these. Becouse I represented this belief in my previous works.
I carved this goddess in Italy near Florence
Here you can see same idea in one of my carvings.
During the festival we met kind people and enjoyed local music.
I cut this advertise of festival and dedicated to artist as a memory of festival.
Participated artists
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