Alireza Chamak
Born in Abadan, lives in Tehran.
Associate and bachelor of painting from the University of Abadan.
Master of art research from the University of Tehran.
He started painting, learned through self-study at the age of 14, , focusing more than anything on sketching and specifically on human figure sketch.
His technique in his paintings was at first oil paint, and then a blend of material on canvas.
Chamak’s artworks are mostly human figurines in some surrealism and magic realism, about which he explains: “… as if somewhere in another world, suddnely something happens, and I’m right there at that moment… I see that image, and I memorize it, without knowing why, for example why is the figure that of a woman, and why is she carrying a house on her head, why is she under the roof of a mosque, and many other questions, and right after it’s done, just like a behonlder who is looking at it for the first time, I stand in front of it and contemplate what it really wants to say? However, in the meantime of sketching an artwork, sometimes I take a photo of the figure first… sometimes of a wall of a palace or a mosque which looks like it, and I’ve seen it somewhere beyond the boarders of dream and imagination… sometimes I use a part of an image of a landscape, or a frame of a film I am watching… and then I put all these parts together, like a puzzle, so that it turns into what I have seen in my imaginations… at the end I can just say that my paintings are the reflections of the things that have happened in the world, or other worlds, and all I did was to put them all Together, in the form of a painting, not knowing why, and how…”
Exhibitions:
Solo:
Solo Painting Exhibition/ Abadan’s Museum of Contemporary Arts/1390
Solo Painting Exhibition/ Negar Gallery/1395
Collective Exhibitions (group shows):
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Abadan’s Museum of Contemporary Arts/ 1391
Collective Exhibition/ Persian Idea Gallery/ 1394
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Sohrab Gallery/1396
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Negar Gallery/ 1397
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Sayhoon Gallery/1397
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Vartan House/1397
Collective Painting Exhibition/ Kama Gallery/ Turkey