Denny Gallery ArtBasel Presents Amir H. Fallah
BOOTH: 1B34
Dates
March 21 - 25, 2023
Location
Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China
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Amir H. Fallah
BOOTH: 1B34
Denny Gallery is delighted to participate in the 2023 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. The gallery
will exhibit as part of the Insights section with a solo booth of work by Amir H. Fallah.
Amir H. Fallah is an artist known for exploring portraiture and identity through his painting, murals,
sculpture and installation. His personal narrative as an Iranian American, whose family fled Iran
during the 1979 revolution, frames his work and his bid to explore what drives us as humans to
shape who we are and how we exist. His esoteric portraits, where the physical characteristics of
his subjects are often masked, hidden or generally absent, offer vignettes into their world; ornate
with depicted objects and patterns. They are windows into society and current affairs. He uses
historical and contemporary imagery and narratives, which he assimilates from a variety of global
references from news channels to twitter; museum collections to fashion magazines. With this,
Fallah mines the collective human visual culture to offer poetic insights into human discourse.
The body of work that Denny Gallery will exhibit at Art Basel Hong Kong continues Amir H.
Fallah’s investigations into his Iranian heritage and the new frontiers of his birth country with
the movement of “Woman, Life, Freedom”. The five paintings - two portraits, two narrative works
and a monumental painting, which he terms as one of his most important works to date - shine a
light on human qualities such as bravery, suffering, defiance and desire. With these works, Fallah
delves into a contemporary and historical visual culture with shared motifs such as dragons and
whimsical scenic backgrounds, alongside more site specific imagery, offering new perspectives
into this current human discourse.
丹尼畫廊欣然參與 2023 年香港巴塞爾藝術展 (Art Basel Hong Kong)。 本畫廊將參與
其中「亞洲視野」(Insights) 的展區，並呈獻阿米爾·法拉赫 (Amir H. Fallah)
的個人作品展。
阿米爾·法拉赫以其豐富的藝術表現形式聞名，他利用繪畫、壁畫、雕塑和裝置藝術的
手法探索肖像畫和身份認同等命題。 他作為一名伊朗裔美國人的個人敘事，尤其是他的家人在
1979 年革命期間逃離伊朗的經歴，不但構成了他的作品，也促使了他不斷探索是什麼驅使我們
作為人類，並且塑造我們的身份和存在。在他深奧的肖像畫中，主體人物的身體特徵通常被物
體遮蓋、隱藏、甚至不存在，像是攝影中的暈影效果般為畫框裡的小世界增添了一份神秘感，
而當中豐富的描繪物和圖騰也成了配襯著主體人物的華麗裝飾。法拉赫的作品是了解社會和時
事的窗口。 從新聞頻道到推特(Twitter)，博物館收藏到時尚雜誌，他從全球各種來源的參考文
獻中吸收並使用著這些歷史和當代的圖像和敘述。藉此，法拉赫深入挖掘人類集體的視覺文化
內涵，為人類的共同話語增添了一層詩意的見解。
丹尼畫廊將在香港巴塞爾藝術展呈獻法拉赫的一系列新作，作品延續他對伊朗歷史文化
遺產的深究，以及反思他的出生國在最近因「婦女、生命、自由運動」(Woman, Life, Freedom
Movement) 而開拓出的一片新疆域。 展出的五幅畫作——兩幅肖像畫、兩幅敘事作品，以及
一幅紀念性巨幅畫作，是他稱之為迄今為止最重要的作品之一，作品閳明著我們生而為人的品
質，如勇敢、苦難、反抗和慾望。通過這些作品，法拉赫以我們華人文化中共同具有的主題元
素（例如龍和異想天開的風景背景），以及更多指向特定場域的意象，深入研究當代和歷史視
覺文化，也為當前的人類話語提供了嶄新的視角。
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