Birds Sculpture

SOLD TOGETHER WITH THREE OTHER WORKS IN FEBRUARY 2018 Name: Birds Year: 2017 Series: 1st Number: 1 Pieces: 4 CRITICAL TEXTS “The artist (...) can not delay in giving form to his creed and own opinions, both because it is about of irrepressible impulse, and because in many cases it would be probably anachronistic. Contemporary art is today, here and now, an opportunity not to be missed reflecting the current state of a territory at a precise moment.” Manuela Valentini, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair 2018, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 “In these works Saba Masoumian with her constant language of allegory describes the coldness of post-modern man, revealing his sentiment-stripped, mechanical nature and how his parts can be assembled like the components of some device or machine. The organs of love, reproduction, and sexuality are described crudely by the artist as if they were unconnected to one another and work solely by automatism by now.” Leda Lunghi, Saba Masoumian: A distant echo, Villa Contemporanea, Monza, 2017 REVIEWS “Always been committed to create complex works full of allusions, the Iranian artist proposes in this (...) solo exhibition a research project whose allegorical language invites the public to recognize in the curious winged beings of the mentors from which to learn respect for the man and nature.” Giovanna Canzi, Un’eco lontana di Saba Masoumian, Vivere No. 109, 2017 “The feeling we experience when we look at a work by Saba is that something has been interrupted: time has stopped, frozen in the instant of abandonment. Something has been consumed, we perceive its presence, we see its effects, but we remain powerless spectators of an intense drama in way of transformation.” Unsigned, Monza, Villa Contemporanea, Arte e Critica City, October- November, supplement of Arte e Critica No. 89, 2017 “Two years ago she was among the winners of the Biennale Giovani of the Arengario, where she had presented the diorama of a desolate and desperate interior but also suspended. And that is the signature that perhaps most distinguishes her: the impression of silence and held breath that comes before or after the pain. The sense of the anguish, with which it is time to do the math.” Massimiliano Rossin, Fare i conti con l’angoscia, l’arte di Saba Masoumian, Il Cittadino, September 21, 2017 PARTICIPATIONS Break!, presented by SetUp Art, curated by Manuela Valentini, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair, Palazzo Pallavicini, Bologna, 2018 SOLO EXHIBITIONS Un’eco lontana, presented by Villa Contemporanea in Monza, critical text by Leda Lunghi, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair, Palazzo Pallavicini, Bologna, 2018 Un’eco lontana, directed by Monica Villa, critical text by Leda Lunghi, Villa Contemporanea, Monza, 2017 CATALOGUES SetUp Contemporary Art Fair 2018, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 NOTES Published as cover artwork on Saba Masoumian, Kabinett series, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 Published on the celebration edition Anniversary Five Years, Exhibitions, Villa Contemporanea, Monza, 2017 Published on the free press SetUp Contemporary Art Fair, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 Published on the reviews Spigolando per mostre, wrote by Giorgio Bonomi, Titolo No. 76, 2018, Un’eco lontana di Saba Masoumian, wrote by Giovanna Canzi, Vivere No. 109, 2017, Fare i conti con l’angoscia, l’arte di Saba Masoumian, wrote by Massimiliano Rossin, Il Cittadino, September 21, 2017 Published by Villa Contemporanea in Monza on the full page Saba Masoumian, Espoarte No. 98, 2017, and the half page Saba Masoumian, Un’eco lontana, Espoarte No. 99, 2017 FLIPBOOKS Un’eco lontana, Saba Masoumian: Anniversary Five Years, Exhibitions: Scrapbook: