Yalda Khajehzadeh
Painter
Iran

Born in Tehran, Iran, 1974
Yalda Khajehzadeh has begun her study in art with learning Iranian music from famous instructors. Then because of her interest in painting, she continued to draw flowers and birds. During last seven years, she has learned different methods of this traditional painting in Zangar Visual Arts School under supervision of Aydin Aghdashloo.

Now she is trying her own style in painting flowers and birds. Her paintings has not only a deep connection with paintings of flowers and birds in 13 Century of Hejry Ghamari but also they provide a new understanding of painting in this field. After Yalda Khajehzadehs participation in two group exhibitions, she is opening her individual exhibition at Golestan Gallery titled Slave and Escaped on January 9th, 2009.

Exhibitions
- Group Exhibition: 100 Paintings from 100 Artists, Tehran 2007, Golestan Gallery
- Group Exhibition: 100 Paintings from 100 Artists, Tehran 2008, Golestan Gallery
- 7th Biannual of Traditinal Painting, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009
- Individual exhibition at Golestan Gallery titled Slave and Escaped on January 9th, 2009
- Group Painting Exhibition, Caroun Art Gallery (CAG), North Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2010

A breif introduction to Yaldas work, by Aydin Aghdashloo, December 2008:
The relationship of the contemporary artist with tradition is a complicated relationship. For some of the contemporary artists, it appears to be inevitable to deny past shining heritage as well as concept and definition of the beauty and meaning which was created throughout previous centuries. On the other hand, for some others the previous concept and definition of the beauty and meaning is not able to answer all the questions of the contemporary artists. For this reason, some others explore the interaction between these two worlds in order to find a solution for continuity of the past meaning (previous definitions) in todays world. This way of connecting these two worlds (the past and now) is a risky method of connecting them together and is similar to walking on the thin and unstable rope which falling from each side of this rope would make difficulty to interact and stay in balance in order to reach the goal.

Ms. Her flowers and birds paintings build a bridge between the past and now. She uses traditional flowers and birds paintings in 13 Century of Hejri Ghamari in the new context in order to narrate cruelty and toughness from a transformed world. This collection is the result of a hard working, skillful and thoughtful artist who adores old time Iranian music and literature. The signs of these passions could be found in her paintings.

This collection is the result of her recent efforts and it is hoped that her best years of working would be in the future.



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