Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

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

Bernay, Musée de Bernay, Hossein Zenderoudi, 1er juillet-31 août 1995

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is lighter and brighter in the original work. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. There are two faint wear marks located on the lower half of the right and left edges. Under Ultra violet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. This work is in excellent condition.
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Cette pièce est un jalon important dans la réflexion que porte Zenderoudi sur le medium linguistique comme support universel de communication. 

Pierre Restany écrivait en 2001 « Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi se trouve tout naturellement au coeur de la problématique la plus actuelle qui affecte le monde globalisant de l'information. Son oeuvre offre à la mise en place de l'emprise planétaire des médias électroniques une référence universaliste et une réponse individuelle. Ce citoyen du monde sans frontières de la pensée spirituelle et de l'information médiatique, m'apparaît plus que jamais comme l'homme de la vraie et juste mesure dans la communication ».

Zenderoudi  situe cette peinture sur un plan extracodique à savoir que du langage, il ne conserve que la rythmique sous forme d’un ondoiement sans fin. Supprimant toute forme de lettre alphabétique ou de substantif identifiables et signifiants, il oblitère le fait qu’une lettre ou un terme agisse en écho par rapport à un mode de pensée attaché à une culture donnée.

Le flux visuel continu tracé par Zenderoudi renvoie à sa conception de l’activité langagière et son goût pour l’humanisme. L’activité langagière intéresse Zenderoudi  car il s’agit d’une activité humaine universelle dont l’universalité repose sur ce que elle est en permanence nourrie, modifiée et réévaluée par l’activité de l’être humain,  être spirituel et pensant. 

This piece is an important milestone in Zenderoudi’s reflection on the linguistic medium as a universal material of communication.

Pierre Restany wrote in 2001 “Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi naturally finds himself at the heart of the most contemporary problematic which affects the globalised world of information. His works offers a universalist reference and an individual response to the set up of the planet’s hold on electronic media. This citizen of the world without frontiers of spiritual thought and mediatised information, appears to me to be more than ever a man of true and accurate measure in communication.”

Zenderoudi situates this painting on an extracodic level, namely that he keeps only the rhythmic aspect of language in the form of an infinite undulation. Removing all form of alphabetic letters or identifiable and significant nouns, he obliterated the fact that a letter or a term acts as an echo in relation to a way of thinking attached to a cultural given.

The continual visual flux traced by Zenderoudi reflects his conception of language activity and his taste for humanism. Language activity interests Zenderoudi because it acts as a universal human activity whose universality is based on the fact that it is permanently fed, modified and re-evaluated by the activity of human beings, spiritual and thinking beings.