Iman Rezai

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Iman Rezai ( Persian ایمان رضایی; * 1981 in Shiraz , Iran ) is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Iman Rezai was born in 1981 in Shiraz and lived in Tehran until he was 18 . From 1996 to 1998 he studied at the art school, Tehran (IR), emigrated to Germany in 1998 and has lived in Berlin ever since. Since 2006 he has been studying fine arts at the UdK in Berlin, received a scholarship from the University of the Arts London , Chelsea in 2009 , and another from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 2010 . From 2011 he studied at the UdK in the class of Leiko Ikemura , which he graduated in 2012 as their master class.

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Large-scale collages dominate the painting by the Iranian-German artist. Objects found in his work such as Darth Vader's outfit , plastic bags and children's toys are piled up with remnants of our consumer society. Neon colors are added as painterly details and occasionally the artist drizzles and washes his works. While early works (Professor Baltasar, 2009) seem to contain elements of New York Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s, his most recent collages show an almost installative approach to painting. So there is a trial of new ways of interrelating found objects and color.

The guillotine

“The Guillotine”, 2012, is a collaboration between Iman Rezai and Rouven Materne . Rezai and Materne, both master students of the Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura, built a functional, colorful guillotine and called it online to vote on the life of a sheep. In the period between April 19 and May 17, it was possible to vote on a specially made website whether the sheep should be executed with the guillotine or not. At the end of the vote there were 1,722,900 votes for and 2,819,322 against the execution of the beast. Before the vote was completed, an anonymous American collector bought the guillotine for 2.3 million US dollars .

Cyber ​​war

As part of a controversial art campaign in October 2012, Rezai sent fake emails to various media that allegedly came from the Neue Nationalgalerie . His sender address did not lead to the Berlin Museum, but to the private PR agency The Coup.

In August 2012 the artist started the front company “BundesInvest”, which specializes in the sale of nuclear waste. Under the pseudonym 'Dr. Igor Imanov 'he published press releases announcing the company's IPO and reporting on negotiations to supply Iran.

Waterboarding

In the exhibition “Illusion H2O”, 2012 in Berlin. Rezai invited volunteers to undergo the waterboarding procedure on a torture bench he had created .

I am E-Waste

In June 2017, Rezai started the “I Am E-Waste” campaign to draw attention to residues in the recycling process of electronic waste in industrialized countries. A crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a film documentation of a repository in Ghana , Africa , was unsuccessful. In an interview with a radio station, the reporter said that the lack of coverage on the subject was due to advertising contracts between media companies and electronics companies.

Others

In the autobiographical novel We Are All Mice , Rezai's brother Ardavan describes their childhood together in Iran.

Exhibitions

  • 2009 Nacht & Nebel Neukölln , Berlin
  • 2010 Hands and friends I UdK, Berlin
  • 2010 Hands and friends II , Pels Leusden at home, Berlin
  • 2010 Forgotten Bar I , Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 2010 Congress for Anders , Hamburg
  • 2010 Forgotten Bar II , Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 2010 Rough & Tough , UdK Berlin, Berlin
  • 2010 Dragonz, come out to play , Tapetenwerk , Leipzig
  • 2010 MEETING POINT , Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin
  • 2010 No Limit , MAU , Tokyo (JP)
  • 2010 Musashino Art Festival , MAU, Tokyo (JP)
  • 2010 "Artpoint", Bereznitsky Gallery, Donetsk (UA)
  • 2010 MEETING POINT , Forum Art and Architecture, Essen
  • 2011 Bubble Projects , (NL)
  • 2011 Visiting Connex , Connex , Leipzig
  • 2011 Veilchen , Uferhallen, Berlin
  • 2011 New West Berlin , Berlin
  • 2012 Light and Shadow , Beta House, Berlin
  • 2012 The Guillotine , Virtual
  • 2012 1965.85 ° C , spinning mill , Leipzig
  • 2012 Illusion H2O , from Marten , Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeni Fulton: UDK Tour - Iman Rezai. on: BerlinArtLink. August 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ www.die-guillotine.com ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-guillotine.com
  3. ↑ Lisa Contag: "The Great Mirror" ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ARTINFO Germany May 25, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.artinfo.com
  4. ^ NWZ online, “Web Art: Controversial Action for a 'Cyber ​​War'” , accessed on November 4, 2012
  5. ↑ Tagesspiegel, “Berlin artist fakes the Neue Nationalgalerie's website” , November 2, 2012
  6. ^ Die Welt, "New Internet campaign by the sheep artist Rezai" , November 2, 2012
  7. ^ Berliner Zeitung, "New Internet campaign by the sheep artist Rezai" , November 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Berlin.de, “New Internet Action by Sheep Artist Rezai” , November 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Der Standard (Austria), "Art Action: After Guillotine for Sheep Now 'Cyber ​​War'" , November 2, 2012
  10. ↑ BZ Berlin, "Artist hacks the page of the Neue Nationalgalerie" , November 2, 2012
  11. ↑ Focus, "New Internet Action by Sheep Artist Rezai" , November 2, 2012
  12. ^ Image, "New Internet campaign by the sheep artist Rezai" , November 2, 2012
  13. ↑ Monopol Magazin, "Mail account of the Neue Nationalgalerie abused" ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 2, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  14. ↑ Peer blog, "UNREAD press releases Bundes-Invest.com"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / peer-blog.com  
  15. ↑ Friday, “A little torture?” December 5, 2012
  16. ↑ Krzysztof W. Rath, "Die Vollmacht" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 23, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / krzysztofwrath.wordpress.com
  17. ↑ the coup Iman Rezai: I Am E-Waste  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 16, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.thecoup.de  
  18. ↑ Freitag.de, “Artist disposed of electronic waste in the sea” , June 17, 2017
  19. ↑ "Dispose of and forget: Iman Rezai fights against the glut of electronic waste"
  20. ↑ "We are all mice" on: Google Books January 30, 2015.
  21. ↑ Illusion H2O, Waterboarding Iman Rezai ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thecoup.de
personal data
SURNAME Rezai, Iman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ایمان رضایی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Shiraz , Iran