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ART + CULTURE: Hiva Alizadeh’s kaleidoscopic art turns hair into shimmering paintings

Layering vividly coloured locks of synthetic hair as if they were veils of oil paint, Iranian-born artist Hiva Alizadeh creates new abstractions. Almost intangible, shimmering and vaporous, his wall-mounted locks emerge from the two-dimensionality of the painted surface. Alizadeh’s vibrant ‘paintings’ illustrate how hair, in the hands of an artist, sheds its intended role and takes on a whole new life of its own.

Untitled (Scenary Series) #4 and #5, 2018
Untitled (Forty Fifty Five Series) #1, 2018
Untitled (Forty Fifty Five Series) #3, 2018
Untitled (Scenary Series), 2017
Untitled (Scenary Series) #7, 2018
Untitled (Shadows in Mosque Series) #2, 2018
Untitled (Forty Fifty Five Series), 2018

Thin three-dimensionality was on show at THE FLAT – Massimo Carasi until 22 December 2018

Artworks: Hiva Alizadeh
Installation Images: Luca Panegatti, courtesy of The Flat – Massimo Carasi Milan
Words: Emma de Clercq & The Flat – Massimo Carasi

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