35 Baker Street, London W1U 8EN
PRESS RELEASE
Pejman Ebadi: Tales from the Other Side
28th April- 24th May 2014
‘For me, creating comes closer to something that I would describe as a shamanistic
voyage… its language belongs to another world, rather, to the other world; the world of
the unknown and the unseen- that which the visible is merely a mirror of.’ Pejman Ebadi
This spring, Hay Hill Gallery presents the weird and wonderful world of Iranian
born artist Pejman Ebadi. Spanning over two decades, the artist’s wildly diverse
style encompasses scrawling angry creatures, sun-striped horizons, withered
swastikas and voodoo symbols. The gods and goddesses of mythology battle out
their wars on canvas; their bad tempered dragons and slack-jawed totems
menace the bright Aztec colours.
Nose-less figures with elliptical eyes and wizened grins stare blankly through
arched orange eyebrows; their bizarre black skeletons are like Indonesian shadow
puppets, awkwardly stretching and joining behind a light box. Long necked
characters with curving beaks, pointed wings and wicked amber glints sit under
peacock-eyed nights full of stars; the outlines of leaves in jet and sapphire are a
cuckoo-clock for stick birds. They watch meteor showers, fall out of the sun and
wander about lonely in the fog; they peer round corners with suspicion or stare
off into the distance resolutely.
Pejman is an improvisational artist, working straight onto his canvases without
planning what the finished piece will be. The blank page compels him to create
form and colour, drawing them out of instinct. With each stab in the dark, the
artist mesmerises us with the unseen things that lurk below the surface. The wind
howls and witch doctors present their sacrifices wearing truly terrible masks.
Bringing his compositions to life with fierce graffiti, this young Picasso-Basquiat is
surely a force to be reckoned with. Inside his spellbound worlds, the word
becomes flesh.
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Pejman Ebadi was born in Tehran, Iran 1982, at the height of the Iran-Iraq war. At the
age of two, his family fled the war stricken homeland to find refuge in France. At only four
years old, Pejman’s father discovered his precocious gift for painting and encouraged him
to express himself freely without any particular guidance. Without formal art education,
the young Pejman taught himself by studying works of major 20th century artists. His first
exhibition was when he was six years old and since 1990, he has held fifty solo exhibitions
North America and Europe. Pejman now lives and works in Nice.
Selected Exhibitions
2013 GALERIE DANIEL BOERI- Monte Carlo
2012 FORM & COLORS - Metz
2011 HERVE SHIMONI GALLERY – Spring- Metz
2010 GALERIE ANNE MOERCHEN – 21/04 to 22/06- Hamburg
2009 SEYHOUN GALLERY- Los Angeles
GALLERY HERVE SHIMONI – Cheminement: 20 Years of Painting- Metz
2008 ODETTE GILBERT FINE ART (March-May)- online exhibition - London
2007 ARSENAL - Act III - curated by Hervé Shimoni- Metz
2006 BOLLAG GALLERIES- Zurich
2005 ORIGINAL GALLERY - Nice
2004 LE TEMPLE- curated by Bob Morse - Lacaze
2003 GILDO PASTOR CENTER GALLERY- Monte Carlo
2002 GALLERI KREBSEN- Copenhagen
PALLAZO DEI CONGRESSI- curated by Artan Shabani-Limone Sul Garde
GALERIE GERARD CHOMARAT- Lyon
GALERIE M- Emmindingen
2001 ORIGINAL GALLERY- Nice
2000 ARSENAL (a retrospective) - curated by Hervé Shimoni - Metz
GALERIE BRAUN- Wuppertal
GALERIE DES TROPIQUES- Tahiti
GALERIE SIMON BLAIS- Montreal
Notes to Editors: Hay Hill Gallery, located on Baker Street, represents a number of
internationally recognised contemporary artists. This exhibition will be held alongside a
sculpture collection which features works by Eleanor Cardozo, Richard Minns, Palolo
Valdés, Massimiliano & Alfonso Cacchiarelli, Jamie McCartney, Gianfranco Meggiato, Andy
Cheese, Ian Edwards and Nicola Godden.
For press information and images please contact Sarah Jones,
sarah@hayhillgallery.com
Hay Hill Gallery, 35 Baker Street, London W1U 8EN
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