Lot 83: Two Figures

KOOROSH SHISHEGARAN (IRANIAN, B. 1945)
Two Figures
signed 'KOOROSH' and signed and dated in Farsi (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
59 x 59in. (150 x 150cm.)
Painted in 2006

Shishegaran's paintings are outstanding for their strikingly free use of form. In recent years he has created dynamic compositions with vivid colours and jumbled curved lines which, whilst giving the impression of spontaneity, are meticulously crafted.
"I have been trying to find a style or language expressive of the modern era. We live in a period of many complications, a period rushing and excitement, a period of ties and confusions, of contradictions and mysteries, of disturbances and high speed, a period color, explosion of wonders and novelties and short, a period of complicated life for today's man. I have been striving to find a style and language for my works which have a new, special and up-to-date elegance and can be viewed as pure painting, rooted in my own country's art and culture". (Koorosh Shishegaran)