Box Sculpture

SOLD IN JANUARY 2019 Name: Box Year: 2016 Series: 5th Number: 2 Pieces: 4 CRITICAL TEXTS “Intimate, ephemeral, innocent and rarefied suggestions, but with sordid references. Creatures that introduce us into unknown realities, into deceptive thoughts and atrocious truths, this is the art of Saba Masoumian, Iranian artist, who raises the curtain on her works and, at the same time, on the stage of his unconscious, the most atavic and remote one.” Leda Lunghi, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair 2018, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 “A memory, some objects, the cycle of life. Masoumian’s works are impregnated with archaic and ancient themes: they, on the one hand, reveal the relationships and ties between people, animals, and things that are often hidden or apparently escaping us; on the other they catapult us into her inner world by bordering on the grotesque and the surreal.” Claudia Capelli, Chunk3, Centro Arti Multiculturali Etnosociali, Brescia, 2017 “In the work of Saba is in course a metamorphosis that touches every thing, the animated elements and the inanimated ones, to give development to the existential nodes to release and that brings her to reveal personal agitations, deep affinities.” Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Metamòrphosis, Saba Masoumian e Amedeo Abello, Iacopo Pasqui, Matilde Piazzi, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2016 REVIEWS “The artist who impresses the most is though the thirty-year-old Iranian Saba Masoumian. Her micro-environments, patinated with rust and water leaks (centenary baths, scale models, enclosed in wall boxes), are degraded in space-time but not dirty, mirrors of life, blood and dreamlike mysteries.” Laura Traversi, Arte Fiera 2018 in dettaglio ed euro e mostre in città. Perché non mancare Bologna, Art a Part of Cult(ure), 2018 “Masoumian creates a sort of “maquette” of interiors of houses, of rooms, in which there is the sign of the wear and tear of time and, although without its material presence, the traces of man. Melancholic works, but also dramatic, given the origin of the artist.” Giorgio Bonomi, Spigolando per mostre, Titolo No. 76, 2018 “Memories of realities already lived, in miniature, with a lenticular virtuosity, Flemish. Saba (...) redetermines places, recreated with such relevance to the real data to turn out to be unsettling. Places where the human presence it is, in the absence, reigning (...): everything is so incredibly true! Small and true. Small, true and ferociously lyrical: the poetic image of memory and its wounds, an intact scruffiness, lyric, elegant.” Giovanna Lacedra, Un’eco lontana’s Instagram presentation, October 14, 2017 “The red of a pair of heeled shoes is next to the red of the blood of an animal hung in the shower: the metamorphosis of life in a gaze without light.” Alberto Giovanni Biuso, Cangianti forme, AGB, 2016 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 MULTI-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Metamòrphosis, Saba Masoumian e i vincitori del Premio Arti Visive San Fedele, directed by Andrea Dall’Asta SJ, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, 2016 CATALOGUES SetUp Contemporary Art Fair 2018, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2018 Metamòrphosis, Saba Masoumian e Amedeo Abello, Iacopo Pasqui, Matilde Piazzi, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2016 NOTES Visible on the celebration edition Anniversary Five Years, Exhibitions, Villa Contemporanea, Monza, 2017 Published on the reviews A SetUp attendono l’attesa, wrote by Mariella Rossi, Vedere a Bologna e dintorni No. 11, supplement of Il Giornale dell’Arte No. 382, 2018, Palazzo Pallavicini è il nuovo approdo di «Setup», wrote by Piero Di Domenico, Corriere di Bologna, January 27, 2018, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair: dal 1 al 4 febbraio, la sesta edizione a Bologna, wrote by Flavio Ennante, Biancoscuro Art Magazine No. 26, 2018 FLIPBOOKS Saba Masoumian, Il sogno del corpo: Un’eco lontana, Saba Masoumian: Anniversary Five Years, Exhibitions: Scrapbook: