Bahram Hajou

BAHRAM´s art invites to transform the famous destination of great poetry, in that it appears as a speaking picture. BAHRAM creates such oeuvres. If you look at the past 10 years of his painting, you can not but recognize that he is obsessed by a vision. The subject of his art is the human being I his solitude. And this vision which - as he shows us - may become a picture but goes beyond language, is translated into the diction of symbols.

The continuity of the motives is impressing: the face, the body of the human being, the empty room, the inaccessible towers, the dilapidated homes. Landscape as force of nature or chimera. By the end of the 80ies, all this was already present but still domesticated by a strong mimetic element. The villages were still villages in the form of a group of homes in front of horizons. Since then, however, in particular after the predominantly informal years from 1991 until 1993, a tremendous concentration of the expression had its way.

It appears as if you could speak of a persecution by faces, of eyes looking from below to above, of masks, square, massive, threatening. Looks which never arrive and hands tying to reach the unreachable with long spread fingers. In this picture world we did not enc...

Visit the on-line exhibition at GALERIE LUDWIG TROSSAERT NEW YORK :
1-7/2017 - 31/8/2017

https://www.visiononart.com/2017-bahram