Ali Mo'tamadian, born in 1986 in Bojnord, Iran, is a graduate in graphic design and began his artistic career in painting in the 1990s. He started painting with classic landscape renderings but later shifted towards non-naturalistic painting. Experimentation to achieve a desirable outcome is his core concern. His focus in his works, from a technical perspective, lies in coloristic and textural moments and events, with a modernist inclination. His study and exploration of abstract paintings shape the atmosphere of Mo'tamadian’s works, through which both hidden and apparent meanings emerge. Mo'tamadian re-creates his works with a multi-faceted but self-contained expression and a strong visual tendency that absorbs politics, philosophy, and sometimes even ethnic myths.

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Ali Mo'tamadian currently resides in Karaj. He has held two solo exhibitions and participated in over 50 group exhibitions in Iran, the United States, and Europe. He has taken part in many festivals and has won numerous awards. He teaches painting. Painting teaches one to touch, observe, and follow, and without a doubt, this is one of the greatest gifts painting offers the artist. It has been said that painting "makes the unseen visible." Despite the theological resonance of this statement, it manifests for us in the most earthly way.

 

The arts have always conquered the sky through the earth. What fascinates me in painting is the most earthly aspect of art, which is working with the material of painting itself. In this regard, my interest in observation is not so different from that of a scientist. What will happen to this material? What combinations can be predicted? And many other questions have always been the motivation that calls me to work. An unconventional use of materials is a fate I willingly embrace.

 

A non-figurative tendency grants me more freedom in this regard, which is why my paintings often, more than abstract shapes or illusions of objects, set realities in motion—realities that are not just visible to the eye. They narrate the transformation of materials, their composition, and their journey at a specific time, which is the time of painting itself. Footprints and escapes form the atmosphere of the current paintings—things that are faint but heavy, representing long paths and trials.