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Supported by Paradise International Art Center ÝÇÑÓی An environmental art festival was held recently (January 1-5, 2007) on the coast of Bandar Abbass, Hormoz and Shykh Andar Abi islands, in the Persian Gulf. More than thirty artists created a wide range of sand sculptures and environmental installations.
At first the main aim at Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival was arranging a workshop for sand and stone sculptors. This was the initial suggestion of the Cultural office of Hormozgan, the Director of visual art center in Bandar Abbass. As a director of the workshop I changed the approach and now everybody is happy about the result and its extension. What began as a 3 day workshop is now planned to be an annual Winter event.
Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival Supported by the Paradise International Art Center in Iran, on 22 January 2007 18 artists from other cities in Iran traveled to the Persian Gulf and continue creating art in nature with local artists. More On the 21 of March our national new year will start. We have two weeks of holiday. About two million Iranian people visit the Persian Gulf area. We plan to exhibit selected visual documentations of this event during our national holiday and invite people to experience the beauty of Hormoz and environmental art. Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf Inspired by the example of ancient cylinder seals, I made a big cylinder seal and printed images of fish along the beach. This cylinder seal was then left on the coast for the ocean to take away. It was dedicated to the unknown fish man who may discover it. Very soon I came back to notice that this gift had been accepted. More Images
Cylinder seal based on ancient example.
A Comment by my American- Italian friend Ahmad Nadalian's recent work created with his students and colleagues at the Environmental Art Festival in the Persian Gulf might actually save the world. I believe that every one who experiences these pieces and their environmental optimism, might believe once and for all, that there are indeed solutions to the environmental ills and conflicts that we face in the world. The energy in the painted hands and faces of his students puts a whole new look on how one might view the future of The Persian Gulf and our relationship to it. Students are students everywhere - and art is a medium that crosses all borders and boundaries. Environmental art can be about preserving traditions as much as it also encompasses concerns about the future of conservation and ecological injustices. Ahmad Nadalian's carved cylinder seals awaken one to the rich lineage of Persian art making. We are reanimated with the images created by the hand-carved cylinder seals as they are rolled out in the sands, along the oceans and coastlines that we all share. One wants to follow the path of these ancient animations and fish symbols to see where they might lead us. Collaboration with indigenous local materials such as these is empowering in ways that redefine "super (creative) power" and our notions of a global paradise. Abigail Doan (Artist, USA and ITALY) http://abigaildoan.neoimages.net http://abigaildoan.blogspot.com
In Paradise : A little island in the center of Persian Golf. More Images This little island is 35 meter wide and 400 meters long. It has no inhabitant.
There is only a little holy place.
We had no apple but lemon !
Nadalian painted these body by local red earth. In Persian golf (Hormoz Island), this red earth is used to cook "Soragh" which is a traditional food. This food consist of organic earth, fish and a kind of lemon or sour orange. Usually Soragh served with bread. More Images Nadalian also use "Soragh" to paint bread.
She offer me bread
Finally we all eat this bread
Painted Body More Images
Body Painting by Nadalian
Works by Stones and Sand
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We already know how to play in earth
Our Responsibility We purify Water and We Protect Earth
Painting by colored Earth More Images
Works by Garbage More Images
People make garbage , but we use garbage to make people
Presentation in Portuguese church
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