AKBAR BEHKALAM
Resim Sergisi
8 Ekim – 15 Kasım
2013
basın bülteni
Bir Bedri Rahmi öğrencisi olan Akbar Behkalam, 40 yıl sonra Arte İstanbul Sanat Galerisi’nde
farklı dönemlerinden, farklı tekniklerle yaptığı
resimleriyle 8 Ekim-15 Kasım tarihleri arasında İstanbulla buluşuyor.
İran Azeri kökenli Akbar Behkalam; Paris, Frankfurt ve
Roma’da yaşadıktan sonra, 1976’dan beri Berlin’de ressam olarak yaşamaktadır.
Almanya’daki çok sayıda kişisel ve grup sergileri dışında;
Brezilya, ABD, Venezüela, Hollanda, İngiltere ve Beyaz Rusya’da kişisel ve grup
sergilere katılmıştır.
AKBAR BEHKALAM
Biography
Akbar Behkalam was born in Tabriz in 1944, the capital of
the Iranian province East Azerbaijan. From 1961 until 1964 he studied art at
Tabriz art school. After his military service he moved to Istanbul, where he
enrolled at the Mimar Sinan University in Fine Arts and became the student of
professor Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu.
From 1972 until 1974 he lived in different European cities,
including Paris, Frankfurt, Rome and Berlin. In 1974 he went back to Iran, to
teach at the Tabriz art school. Since 1976, Behkalam has lived in Berlin and as
of 1989 he has a studio in Brandenburg.
He is married and has two children.
Art
Akbar Behkalam's works often deal with political subjects.
His early works are influenced by the New European Realism, in a symbiosis with
Persian miniature painting. His later works, up to present time can be
described as abstract-expressive. A focal point of his works is the depiction
of the formation and choreography of mass movements.
One recurring theme in his works is the turbulent history of
his home country Iran: the series "Persepolis" (1977–1979) deals with
old Persian iconography, that is confronted with the depiction of the execution
squads of the Shah-regime. In the eighties he produced the series "Justice
in Allah's Name", that has the religiously legitimized human rights
violations of the Islamic Republic as its central theme.
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