Farhad Orouji (Iran, 1981)Khayyam, Tulipano 1,... Lot n° 4

Farhad Orouji is an Iranian artist, curator and tutor. He has been living in Italy since 2005. Khayyam Tulipano 1, Orouji has found inspira on in the literary world of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), a Persian polymath and poet, born in Nishapur, at that me the capital of the Seljuk Empire. Orouji has produced a three-dimensional object using plaster, covered with berglass and a collage of verses from Khayyam’s quatrains. For the shape of the object, the ar st was inspired by the arabesque. He produced several versions, exactly iden cal, and assembled them to create a three-dimensional object. He has succeeded in giving a three-dimensional form to a decora ve element, typical of Islamic art, which has only one dimension. Provenance: the artist.