{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-blogposting-english_article-139882","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com/english-articles/in-memory-of-hessam-rezaei-painter/","name":"In Memory of Hessam Rezaei \u2013 Painter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://s.herfeh-honarmand.com/u/2026/04/image-5-200x200.webp","name":"image (5)","width":200},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-webpage-english-articlesin-memory-of-hessam-rezaei-painter"},"description":"At the recommendation of friends, and in view of the growing interest in Hessam Rezaei\u2019s work in recent years, I have attempted to review his works, which are not widely available in Iran. His works are grouped into three series of images, which, according to those close to him, were created during his repeated travels […]","author":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-organization-brand","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-organization-brand","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f"},"commentCount":"0","datePublished":"2026-04-21 19:09:38","dateModified":"2026-04-21 15:39:41","keywords":["Iranian Contemporary Art"],"dateCreated":"2026-04-21 19:09:38","wordCount":0,"articleBody":"\nAt the recommendation of friends, and in view of the growing interest in Hessam Rezaei\u2019s work in recent years, I have attempted to review his works, which are not widely available in Iran. His works are grouped into three series of images, which, according to those close to him, were created during his repeated travels between Iran and Germany. The first group is entirely experimental, often informed by the avant-garde sensibilities of a visual inquirer. The second comprises landscapes that primarily attest to his technical command and maturity. The final group, though less cohesive, reflects his attempts to retrieve what he had lost while living far from his homeland and loved ones.\n\n\n\nAn artwork comes into being in accordance with the artist\u2019s nature. The relationship between an artist\u2019s life and their work is a necessity we may call true authenticity. Any cultural creation that is connected to the inner and outer foundations of its creator\u2014and capable of reflecting a part of them\u2014deserves recognition and reverence, regardless of personal taste or judgment, for its claim to an unmediated narration of existential truth. Many paintings and sculptures are executed at the highest level of technical and formal refinement, yet precisely because they are incidental or imposed upon their creators, they are ignored\u2014or must be.\n\n\n\nThere are image-makers in their early twenties who depict dismembered bodies, scenes of torture, mutilated forms, and often sexually deviant or diseased figures\u2014yet I have known them since they were seventeen, and no aspect of their personal lives has ever been intertwined with such imagery or atmospheres. I deliberately use the term \u201cimage-maker,\u201d for when a person does not move beyond mere reproduction of images from video clips, magazine photographs, or, at times, artificially induced excitements from chemical or plant substances\u2014and attempts to construct images from them, such fabricated outputs cannot bear the name of art..."}{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"WebSite","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-website-site","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com?s={search_term_string}","query-input":"required s=search_term_string"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-organization-brand","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f","description":"\u0646\u0634\u0631\u06cc\u0647 \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0647\u0627\u06cc \u062a\u0635\u0648\u06cc\u0631\u06cc","sameAs":["https://www.instagram.com/herfeh.honarmand/","https://twitter.com/herfehhonarmand","https://t.me/herfeh_honarmand","https://www.youtube.com/@herfeh.honarmand","https://wa.me/+989936912755"]}}{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"WebPage","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-webpage-english-articlesin-memory-of-hessam-rezaei-painter","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com/english-articles/in-memory-of-hessam-rezaei-painter/","name":"In Memory of Hessam Rezaei \u2013 Painter","about":"At the recommendation of friends, and in view of the growing interest in Hessam Rezaei\u2019s work in recent years, I have attempted to review his works, which are not widely available in Iran. 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