Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Collection particulière, Paris (acquis directement auprès de l'artiste)

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. The upper and lower edges present some slight discoloration. Four tiny scuffs located by the right edge, 16 cm from the lower right corner, are only visible under close inspection. This work is in very good condition.
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Figure de proue du Mouvement moderne iranien, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi est encore élève à l’école des beaux arts de Téhéran, sa ville natale, lorsqu’il participe à la création de l’école Sagha Khaneh, un mouvement pictural qui rénove l’esprit de l’écriture gestuelle orientale.

Lauréat de la Biennale de Paris en 1960, Zenderoudi s’installe en France l’année suivante. Il se laisse influencer par le milieu de l’art européen tout en conservant un atelier en Iran préservant les liens avec sa terre natale. Cette double influence a modelé son style artistique à mi-chemin entre l’abstraction occidentale et les influences des courants artistiques iraniens. Calligraphe autodidacte, il renouvelle les traditions persanes de cette discipline pour mieux en transgresser les règles. L’art de Zenderoudi offre de nouvelles perspectives vers des interprétations personnelles et des propositions esthétiques riches en diversité et originalité.

Avec VAV + HE + ALEF, spectaculaire composition monumentale, l’artiste opère une mise en scène dynamique de l’alphabet arabo-persan et fait converger des univers musicaux,  poétiques et mathématiques qui se complètent pour offrir une image tangible de la complexité des champs de la pensée.

 

 

 

Leading figure of the Iranian modernist movement, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi was still a student in Tehran when he co-founded the Saqqa Khaneh school and set out to create a distinctly artistic form of national expression that was fundamentally linked to modern styles.

After winning a prestigious prize at the Paris Biennale in 1960, Zenderoudi settled in Paris the following year. While allowing himself to be influenced by the European art milieu, he maintained a studio in Tehran, preserving an essential connection with his homeland. This double-rooting shaped his artistic style, establishing himself as a middle ground between Western abstraction and the Iranian cultural movements of the time. As a self-taught calligrapher, he broke from the traditional boundaries of the discipline and established himself as a neo-traditional Persian artist. Zenderoudi’s art is allowing fresh perspectives for personal interpretations of diverse and singular aesthetic offerings.

With VAV + HE + ALEF, a spectacular monumental composition, the artist produces a dynamic setting of the Persian-Arabian alphabet and brings together musical, poetic and the mathematical universes that complement one another to offer a tangible image of the complexity of the fields of thought.