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Afshin Naghouni
Afshin Naghouni & Silvana Maragliulo, 2021, London
Born25 August, 1969
Ahvaz, Iran
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materLondon Metropolitan University, Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design
Known forPainting, Mixed-media
Notable workNational Property, Universal Soldier, The Veil, Disillusions III, An Abstract Sense of Life (Series)
MovementContemporary Art
Websiteafshinnaghouni.com

Afshin Naghouni is an Iranian-born, British visual artist. He is known for his controversial, larger-than-life paintings. [1] He works in an expressive and cubist style that explores every aspect of each object in his compositions, simultaneously. [2]

Afshin Naghouni is a great artist. He also bears the cross for our generation

— Luna Shad, [3]

Early Life

Afshin (Ash), was born Afshin Naghouni in Ahvaz, the son of Sediheh (née Mohammadzaal) and Jahangir Naghouni.

Naghouni was considered to be a child prodigy. For as long as he remembers he was holding a pen or a pencil and drawing. He won a number of regional and national painting competitions between the ages of nine and twelve.[4] He started painting and drawing when he was four or five years old. At the age of 9 he went to his first oil painting class.[5] At that age he was emulating the old paintings of Caravaggio, John Constable and others.[5]

Iranian Police

When Naghouni was 24 years old, the Iranian police raided a party he was attending. He managed to escape to the roof of a residential block.[6] During his attempt to come down, he fell to the ground from the sixth floor.[5] He injured his spinal cord, which left him in a wheelchair. This event was the subject of the 2014 TV documentary Out of Focus[7].[4]

I use my work to help people realise that they don't have to accept what is around them – that they can start to see things differently and do things differently

— Afshin Naghouni, [8]

London

Three years later Naghouni was in England in a hospital that specialized in spinal trauma care. Upon arrival to the United Kingdom, he applied for political asylum. The government provided him with healthcare and housing after he was discharged from hospital to a nursing home, where he lived for over two years.[1]

After he was granted asylum, he applied for a grant from The Prince's Trust, which offered him an interest-free loan to start a business.[1] For the next five years or so he kept working, but his pieces weren’t selling. About that time, or a little after, was the beginning of his rise in the art world. (needs citation).

An Abstract Sense of Life

“In his new body of artwork, I see Afshin Naghouni is unusually jewel-like with his choice palette of cherry-picked colors. Vivid multihued veils of paint offer ever-more interesting Abstract(ed) zones, that lie in between broadly sanguine, elaborately raffish and viscerally gutsy brushstrokes. Understanding engagement of the physical frame supports emotional empathy whilst embracing intellectual identity; feeling the Conceptual tease of painted flesh from the mortal body to Abstract art, as selfportraiture, too.” [9]

—Estelle Lovatt is a renowned, internationally-known art critic and lecturer. She’s an art teacher, writer, and an art historian. She is also an artist

Maryam Eisler Interview

In a 2020 interview with Maryam Eisler, Naghouni said, Picasso was the historical figure who affected him the most. Picasso appealed to him because of his carefreeness.

I will always be in love of his analytic period, but I am also very much enjoying the paintings he did of his lover Marie Therese around 1932-33. I love the freedom of application and the loose strokes, childish, free and sensuous at the same time.

— Afshin Naghouni, [10]

Antix

In 2015 London-based hip hop artist Antix released a song entitled Afshin’s Song [11] The lyrics are based on the events that led up to and after Naghouni's fall that damaged his spinal cord. Antix also created a video to accompany the song.[12]

Activism

As of 2011, he was the chairman of the Westminster Action Network on Disability.[13]

Naghouni consistently gives his voice to the numerous human rights abuses in Iran. His presence at protests in London is known [1][14] [Waiting for original BBC source segment producer, Simmonds, Gol]

After the Iranian government killed Mahsa Amini, protests that started at Mahsa’s funeral soon erupted throughout Iran. [15] Very soon into the protests there was renewed talk of bringing down the Islamic regime and if that was realistic they would need a leader. [16]

On 20 October, 2022 Naghouni talked to Roqe Media’s Jian Ghomeshi. In a short video clip from the interview, Naghouni discusses the conceivable end of Iran’s Islamic state. Confirmations are mounting that the protesters may be undermining the government

Naghouni explains that there have been many protests in Iran since the [Iran] Revolution. Every time there’s a protest, there is talk that it could be thee one that topples the Islamic regime. He never before uttered the words that he spoke publicly in the interview. He was vehement in stating that these latest protests are going to end the regime.

His words are stunning, but measured when he states, “nothing in Iran is going to go back to where it was a month ago … this is it, this is the beginning of the end.” [17]

Education

Naghouni studied art in Tehran and London, completing his postgraduate work at London Metropolitan University, in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design. [18]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Writing by Paige Zeigler featuring artist Afshin Naghouni, musician Antix, & explorer Sam Cossman by Paige Zeigler - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. ^ Picassomio (31 July 2001). "Afshin Naghouni Biography". Retrieved 26 October 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Dr. Abbas Milani quoting filmmaker Luna Shad; Afshin Naghouni, Oddyssey of an artist, Stanford University https://soundcloud.com/stanford-iranian-studies-program/afshin-naghouni-odyssey-of-an-artist#t=1m19s
  4. ^ a b "Afshin Naghouni". www.nuitmagazine.com. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "BBC World Service - In the Studio, Afshin Naghouni: Jelly beans and nostalgia". BBC. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Up to 150 men and women detained at party in Iran". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  7. ^ "21 Aug 2015, Page C5 - The Daily Spectrum at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  8. ^ Sally Perry is co-founder and director at Go Figurative and former vice president corporate social responsibility at Turner Broadcasting https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/business-learn-art-changed-world
  9. ^ Lovatt, Estelle (20 May 2021). "An Abstract Sense Of Life Solo Exhibition by Afshin Naghouni in HJ Art GallerY".
  10. ^ Eisler, Maryam (16 November 2020). "Visual artist Afshin Naghouni: 'I'm sick and tired of self-obsessed art'". Lux Magazine. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  11. ^ "'Afshin's Song' - Antix Political Antics". HuffPost UK. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  12. ^ Antix - Afshin's Song, retrieved 16 September 2022
  13. ^ Bloom, Ben (21 January 2011). "Westminster elderly and disabled suffer as social care is slashed". Hampstead Highgate Express.
  14. ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  15. ^ "Iran protests, explained". Penn Today. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  16. ^ Zitser, Joshua (14 September 2022). "Iran's 'trajectory' is another revolution — but the hijab protesters need leaders to topple the Islamic regime, Middle East experts say". Business Insider. Retrieved 22 October 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ Roqe Moment - Acclaimed artist Afshin Naghouni... با زیرنویس فارسی, retrieved 21 October 2022
  18. ^ Anonymous (28 September 2015). "Afshin Naghouni: Odyssey of an Artist". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
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