Abbas KIAROSTAMI (Iran, 1940-2016)
A Window Through... Lot 17
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Abbas KIAROSTAMI (Iran, 1940-2016)
A Window Through The Life
Photographic print on canvas, framed
140 x 220 cm
executed in 2007
signed, dated "2007" and numbered "1/1" (on verso)
this work is unique
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Photographic print on canvas, framed
140 x 220 cm
executed in 2007
signed, dated "2007" and numbered "1/1" on the reverse,
the present work is unique.
Property from a private collection, Paris.
Lot 541, ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART 7 October 2014, Bonhams, London.
Property from a private collection, Dubai.
Lot 82, INTERNATIONAL MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, 27 Oct 2009, Christie's, Dubai.
"The perception of disparate beauties is one of the most difficult specialties which can be achieved only by means of photography."
"A good picture cries out its excellence at the moment it is taken. Occasionally, you feel this dissatisfaction after the picture is printed. You tear it up and throw it in the trashcan. For me there is no definite and clear-cut criterion for releasing the shutter besides my satisfaction of the image, and I am seldom able to offer a logical reason for my approving a photograph and rejecting another. It is often this feeling that guides me. If we put forth reason to interpret and describe this feeling, we have only mentioned a value that can be interpreted and described. But the real reasons which make us ponder in the face of an image are not easily discernible."
"You could pass by a landscape hundreds of times and then, one fine day, suddenly, be attracted and captivated by it. The landscape is still the same you passed by many times, but the light has rendered it more attractive. It is the same thing for a face. It happens that, looking in a mirror, one may find one's face more beautiful today than yesterday. I think that this has nothing to do with one's skin, with one having slept well the night before, or with one being happy inside. Of course, all that I have mentioned is undeniable, but what has made one's face more beautiful today than yesterday is only light; adequate light. One must pay attention to the light." (Abbas Kiarostami)
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