Shahram Karimi

Born in 1957, Iran, Shahram Karimi grew up in Shiraz. He is a painter and film production designer. He has extensive experience working within the film production department on a film crew for 15 years. He approaches the production design as a trained painter, treating the film as a canvas; as he says “I simply paint it”.
He has worked from a very early conceptual process collaborating with Iranian artists and film makers; Shirin Neshat and Shoji Azari on many film projects. Their film “Women Without Men” won the 2009 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion for best directing. .
Shahram Karimi’s paintings portray the dilemma of the contemporary bicultural Iranian who seeks his historical and personal identity by wedding his personal past with contemporary form.

In an era when Globalism has become an integral aspect of the post modern man’s experience, the Iranian born artist, Shahram Karimi, living in Germany, truly represents such trans-cultural currents and realties in the context of contemporary art. His aspirations are at once rooted in his personal cultural history such as the traditional Persian Miniature paintings, his subsequent life in exile and exposure to the history of abstract, minimal and conceptual art of the West. Karimi has arrived at a unique form which combines both aspects of seemingly diverse cultures in an artistic language which transcends the boundaries of such localities.
Karimi’s paintings follow the same principals as those of classical Persian Miniature paintings, mainly in respect to the absence of perspective. The use of narrative elements and inscription of text over imagery and his minimal abstractions of visual iconography bind him to Western art.

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