Shohid Shodi Alizoda

An unexpected artist of his time, Shodi is unique, brutally honest with his audience and the era he inhabits. He began his painting journey rather unexpectedly at the age of 30. With a strikingly original voice, he is a cloisonnist, and his works adorn private collections of many countries around the world. While he explores a vast array of themes in his paintings, it cannot be said that these themes are directly connected to the surrounding conditions. Instead, he draws meanings and interpretations of form from within himself, fueled by an inner synthetic approach—his synthetic perception and style of seeing the world.

In his work, one can trace the influence of Pierre Bonnard, not so much in stylistic expressiveness or principles of color combination, but rather in the unexpected choices of narrative, the angle of perception, and the selective extraction of elements from the material world into his symbolic narrative, imbuing them with meanings that defy conventional interpretations. Unbeknownst to him, he shares a kinship with the French artistic group Nabis of 1888. Locally, his works echo those of Roerich, Gauguin, and Andrew Wyeth, encapsulating an elegiac chronotope of solitude and a palpable sense of melancholic existence....

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2018 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (London)