Ahmad Hesami

Architect and Painter

Shahre-ma-h

The Moon City

Niavaran Cultural Center Exhibition

Artworks presented at Niavaran Cultural Center are a representation of Ahmad's thirty years of work and research involved in a comparative study of City Organism & Plant Organism, entitled "Shahr-e Ma-h".

Study of plants or vegetative organism starts with a telescopic observation of a part of the stem of a plant highlighting its beautiful and strange world with similarities to the urban or city structures but with different scope and measurements. These two organisms have functional similarities. The complex world of plants has communication system similar to a city organism such as roadways. The cellular structures within a plant organized in an almost geometrical design that appears as highways, streets, alleys and structural blocks.

According to Professor Paolo Soleri, the distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University, “The only difference between these two organisms is that the city organism consists of thousands of different minds and thoughts".

Converting the measurement of plant organism to a city one, combining these two geometrical structures and treating them with another organism similar to the memory chips of computers as technological elements, are pretexts to produce an abstract biotechnological geometric system. Herein, we observe different variants of a composition with an accurate arrangement. Analyzing, recombining and developing these elements considering new functions that have been inspired by city evolutions such as Juxtaposition, repetition, lamination, inverting, combining, conversing, wedge and rupture and…

These functions used as a term and technique for design, installation and production of the works. The result is the production of graphical frames, which determine a complicated organism similar to a mega police. For the first time, since 1977, copy machines have been taken into action for this performance of graphical artworks.  

Since 1977, he has researched various fields of art and architecture, ultimately, carving new approaches on this subject. At the same time, while primarily focusing on the comparative study of City Organism & Plant Organism, he completed his Doctorate thesis under the tutelage and direction of Professor Leonardo Savioli the famous Italian architect and town planner and the principle of the Architectural Research Institute of University of Florence in Italy.

 

E-mail: info@ahmadhessami.com

Tehran Modern Art Gallery