Statement:

+2 is proud to announce "Barbican", the latest solo exhibition by Alireza Rasoulzadeh, opening Friday, June 14, 2024. Hung papier mache and mixed media works will be on view through July 5, 2024.

The show marks the artist's third collaboration with Dastan following his solo “Reverse Mirage" (2021) at Dastan's Basement.///

What Alireza Rasoulzadeh has intentionally set out to do with these hung three-dimensional works is twofold: To show the mesmerizing simplicity of the desert architecture of ancient Iranian cities and to bring a sense of spatial lightness to modern city-dwellers visiting "Barbican".

Indeed, the colorful glass and mirrors worked into the papier-mâché protrusions and ridges, playfully guiding the light and our gaze in flitting directions.

Standing before the works of Rasoulzadeh, we are as if given an aerial view of ancient cities – the arrangement of space, the containment of movement, and the openness of the sky above. We can see the complexities that governed their architecture and inspired the artist.

Alireza Rasoulzadeh (b. 1984, Tehran, Iran) has an MA in Artistic Research from Azad University of Tehran (2024). He is a member of the Sculptors Association of Iran.

He has passed the "Modernizing The Myth" course with Parviz Tanavoli and spent two years in sculpting courses with Mohammad Hossein Emad. Rasoulzadeh held his first solo exhibition, "Durability" (2018), at Dastan’s Basement. He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Iran and worldwide since 2014.