Adel Younesi

Younesi, an intimate alien to this world Adel Younesi, a young Iranian artist, was born in 1985, in Hamadan. For him, we all live in a world full of illusions created by mental activities; desires and fears lead to strange situations. In his works, the past is transmitted and updated by itself, and combined with the present impressions, the reflections and the feelings. His paintings are both real and phantasmagoric, which show a unique, touching and poetic universe. The austere expressions of figures in black and white from old photos contrast with improbable places, the bright colours of flags, and sometimes unexpected animals : “In my recent works the relationship between animals and their behaviour besides people and things, forms universality.” Nourished with elements from past and present impressions, his subjectivity is full of hope. His evocative power paradoxically reveals the universal significance of creative imagination.

Works

Portrait of Marie de’ Medici

Portrait of Henri IV

Journey

Harem

Theater

The soldiers

The dervishs

The Musicians

Biography

Younesi, an intimate alien to this world

Adel Younesi, a young Iranian artist, was born in 1985, in Hamadan. For him, we all live in a world full of illusions created by mental activities; desires and fears lead to strange situations. In his works, the past is transmitted and updated by itself, and combined with the present impressions, the reflections and the feelings. His paintings are both real and phantasmagoric, which show a unique, touching and poetic universe. The austere expressions of figures in black and white from old photos contrast with improbable places, the bright colours of flags, and sometimes unexpected animals : “In my recent works the relationship between animals and their behaviour besides people and things, forms universality.” Nourished with elements from past and present impressions, his subjectivity is full of hope. His evocative power paradoxically reveals the universal significance of creative imagination.

Exhibitions

Iranian Contemporary Art at the Crossroads of Worlds

Adel Younesi, Mehdi Mirbagheri

26/01/2017 - 11/03/2017

Career

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2017
« Common Sense », Galerie Iranshahr, Téhéran, Iran

2014
Galerie Nicolas Flamel, Paris, France

2010
Galerie Henna, Téhéran, Iran

2009
Galerie Steps, Londres, Grande Bretagne
Galerie Assar, Téhéran, Iran

2007
Galerie « Mahe mehr café », Téhéran, Iran
Galerie Mahe mehr, Téhéran, Iran

2005
Galerie Elahe, Téhéran, Iran

2004
Galerie Sheys, Téhéran, Iran

News

4 February 2017

Current Exhibition – “À la croisée des mondes ” – Discover videos featuring two iranien artists!

To celebrate the inauguration of this new space, the LOFT GALLERY invites you to discover a double exhibition dedicated to two exceptional young artists, Adel YOUNESI and Mehdi MIRBAGHERI, whose works are nourished by ancestral culture and the socio-economic transformations of contemporary Iranian society.