Nightmares In Via Carlo Alberto 6 "Nietzsche in Turin" is an original painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored Canson paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
From the series "Turin Trance Traces" in which the artist tries to reflect the sensations of great writers and great thinkers, who had lived or experienced the city of Turin, through an abstract representation, The city where today the artist lives. "Via Carlo Alberto 6" in fact is where German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, stayed in Turin for six months and wrote Ecce homo.
The artwork is poetically created through expressionistic brush strokes, the well-applied dry and watery strokes in a minimalistic style representing revolutionary figures. The various layer is made perfectly, which makes this series unique: is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each figure and abstract form, with the exclusive application of colors to emphasize metaphorical features.
The structure of shapes inspired by calligraphy created motifs harmoniously in a neat composition, her knowledge of poetry let her create a visual poem in an expressionistic style, which is congruent with the title. The use of space and maintaining an empty background and foreground present solitude and at the same time is connected to oriental art in which empty space has the same value as the filled one.Her artworks have evident characteristics, they are inspired by Tachisme's “Abstraction lyrique" and the artworks of Henri Michaux, and Hans Hurting then oriental calligraphy and art, at the same time the dynamic sensation of revolutionary art and abstract expressionistic style, are transformed into contemporary language and its features intuitively are subtly inserted.
Her art tries to create a strong connection between symbolism, literature, and visual expression by considering the activeness of social issues, evolving art that could be a mirror of society by passing from internal poetic language and inserting contemporary aesthetics codes, neither too bold to belong to just social art nor indifferent to just belong to art for art.
Parimah Avani (Born1988) is an Iranian Poet and visual artist, since 2009 has lived and studied in Italy, after graduating from the Fine Art Academy of Rome in painting continued her research on “Aesthetic of Talisman and Magics Text and Craft” and took her Ph.D. title in the Sapienza University of Rome in 2020. Her main camp study has been mythology and symbolism.
From her have been published books and illustrations of books, various scripts, and poems in magazines. Her last personal exhibitions were held in Turin in 2022, in Bagni Pubblici "The Poems of Struggle and Mourning" and in Paiz "Silvery Rhapsody of Resistance".
The published book of her"The Magic Scroll of Antalus” has been among the finalists for the “Shamlu” literature and Poetry award in 2021 in Iran.
Artist: Parimah Avani
Title: Nightmares In Via Carlo Alberto 6 "Nietzsche in Turin"
Date: 2022
Technique: China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Dimensions: 29.5 x40.5 cm
Signature: Hand-signed
Frame: Unframed
