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Hossein Valamanesh

Hossein Valamanesh AM (2 March 1949 – 15 January 2022) was an Iranian-Australian contemporary artist who lived and worked in Adelaide, South Australia. He worked in mixed media, printmaking, installations, and sculpture. He often collaborated with his wife, Angela Valamanesh.

Hossein Valamanesh
Born(1949-03-02)2 March 1949
Died15 January 2022(2022-01-15) (aged 72)
EducationTehran School of Art and South Australian School of Art
Known forSculpture, painting, art installation
AwardsVisual Arts Board grant, Australia Council; Grand Prize at the Dacca Biennale, Bangladesh
14 Pieces (2005) by Angela and Hossein Valamanesh, in front of the South Australian Museum
Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney (1999)
Detail of the Irish Famine memorial
Detail of the Irish Famine memorial

Early life and education

Hossein Valamanesh was born in Tehran, Iran on 2 March 1949.[1] He worked with theatre director Bijan Mofid from 1968 to 1971, and graduated from at the Tehran School of Art in Tehran in 1970.[2][3]

He emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, in 1973, and while living there travelled to remote Aboriginal communities in WA, where he felt a connection between their ancient culture and his own Persian culture.[3] He worked with the Round Earth Company and Aboriginal children.[2]

He continued his art education at the South Australian School of Art after moving to Adelaide in 1974,[3] graduating in 1977.[4][2]

Art practice and works

 
Descriptive plaque of The Australian Monument to The Great Irish Famine

His work, which includes sculpture, painting, installation, and video art explores "the paradoxes of selfhood, existence and being". It has been described as "known and loved for its spare aesthetic sensibility, parred back form and poetic visual imagery". He used natural materials, such as ochres, sand and stones, as well as leaves, branches, and twigs, and drew inspiration from Sufi philosophy and Persian poetry,[3] in particular that of the poet Djalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî (aka Rumi).[5] He also employedd human forms and shadows.[3]

He completed a number of major public art commissions, many with his wife Angela Valamanesh, also an artist.[6]

His 1997 combined performance, photographic, and sculptural work Longing, belonging, which involved burning a Persian rug in the outback to explore the migrant experience, is in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW[7][3]

In 1998 he completed a large public artwork in Adelaide, Knocking from the inside, on the northern plaza of the Intercontinental Hotel on North Terrace.[2]

Angela and he together created An Gorta Mor, the Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine (1999), at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. The monument, one of many memorials to the catastrophe around the world, is incorporated into the wall surrounding the Barracks and "ironically, stands on the site of the original kitchens" there. The table, bowl, tools, and utensils are cast in bronze, and the names of 420 women who arrived as famine orphans are etched into the glass part of the memorial walls. Among the estimated 2,500 people attending the unveiling on 28 August 1999 were 800 famine orphan descendants.[6][8]

In October 2005, a piece of public art by Angela and Hossein, incorporating water, 14 Pieces, situated on North Terrace in front of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, was officially unveiled. Its form is based on the vertebrae of an extinct marine reptile, the ichthyosaur,[2] held by the museum.[3] Hossein and Angela were commissioned by the City of Adelaide to create the sculpture to replace the Lavington Bonython fountain that had occupied the site from 1965.[2]

In 2008 he became involved with "The Rug Project", in which he used one of his works on paper, Crazing, made from stems of maidenhair fern, as the basis for a rug design.[9]

Valamanesh worked closely over decades with the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.[5]

Recognition and awards

Valamanesh was awarded a number of fellowships, commissions, grants, residencies, and other honours, including:[10]

In 2013, Valamanesh featured in the ABC / BBC joint production documentary series The Art Of Australia hosted by Edmund Capon, in the first episode entitled Strangers in a Strange Land.[13]

In November 2022, Valamanesh was posthumously awarded the South Australian Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Ruby Awards.[14]

Major exhibitions

Valamanesh's work has featured in many group exhibitions as well as major and minor solo exhibitions.[15][2] His work has been shown in over 30 solo exhibitions around the world, and been on display in Canada, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, and Iran.[5]

Later life, family and death

On 15 January 2022, Valamanesh died of a heart attack in Adelaide, at the age of 72.[4][18][19][20] He was survived by his wife Angela AM[3][18] and at least one child, Nassiem.[3]

Angela Valamanesh was born in 1953 in Port Pirie, South Australia. She graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1992, and subsequently earned an MA at the University of South Australia. She won the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 1996, using it to undertake postgraduate studies at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She and Hossein undertook several public art projects together.[2]

Nassiem Valmanesh, also an artist, studied filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and as of 2021 lives in Melbourne. His work was featured in an exhibition with his father's at the Buxton Contemporary at the University of Melbourne, in 2021.[21]

Public art collections

Valamanesh's work is included in major public art collections in Australia and abroad, including:

References

  1. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh b. 2 March 1949". Design & Art Australia Online. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Elton, Jude (7 January 2014). "14 Pieces". Adelaidia. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Speck, Catherine (21 January 2022). "Australian art has lost two of its greats. Vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh". The Conversation. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b McDonald, Patrick (17 January 2022). "Artist Hossein Valamanesh, 72, dies suddenly". The Advertiser. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Noble, Kelly (18 January 2022). "Hossein Valamanesh remembered as a powerful and poetic international artist". Glam Adelaide. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  6. ^ a b McIntyre, Perry (May–June 2013). "Traces". Inside History. Ben Mercer (16): 36–37. ISSN 1838-5044.
  7. ^ Longing belonging Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine". Sydney Living Museums. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  9. ^ Valamanesh, Hossein (27 August 2008). (Interview). Interviewed by Kinski, Klaus. Archived from the original on 12 April 015. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  10. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh b. 2 March 1949: Recognitions". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Hossein Valamanesh: A Survey, Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide 29 June - 26 August 2001". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 12 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Name Mr Hossein Valamanesh". Australian Honours Search Facility. Australian Government.
  13. ^ The Art of Australia. ABC Arts. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  14. ^ "The Ruby Awards". Department of the Premier and Cabinet (South Australia). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  15. ^ a b c "Hossein Valamanesh b. 2 March 1949: Events". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh: natural selection". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  17. ^ Lai, Beau (16 January 2022). "Hossein Valamanesh: Puisque tout passe". Artist Profile. Retrieved 9 February 2022. ...originally published in Artist Profile, Issue 57, 2021.
  18. ^ a b Keen, Suzie (17 January 2022). "Leading local artist remembered for his 'powerful and poetic' works". InDaily. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  19. ^ "درگذشت نقاش ایرانی در خارج از کشور". ISNA. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  20. ^ "حسین والامنش، نقاش و مجسمه‌ساز ایرانی ساکن استرالیا درگذشت". BBC Persian (in Persian). 16 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  21. ^ "Hossein & Nassiem Valamanesh, What Goes Around 2021". Buxton Contemporary. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Collection: Longing belonging, (1997) by Hossein Valamanesh". artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 12 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh". MCA Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ Valamanesh, Hossein. "Falling". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

Further reading

  • "Hossein Valamanesh: Puisque tout passe". Art Gallery of South Australia. (2021) Exhibition catalogue, providing insight into his practice, "detailing significant life experiences that have profoundly influenced his works".

hossein, valamanesh, march, 1949, january, 2022, iranian, australian, contemporary, artist, lived, worked, adelaide, south, australia, worked, mixed, media, printmaking, installations, sculpture, often, collaborated, with, wife, angela, valamanesh, born, 1949,. Hossein Valamanesh AM 2 March 1949 15 January 2022 was an Iranian Australian contemporary artist who lived and worked in Adelaide South Australia He worked in mixed media printmaking installations and sculpture He often collaborated with his wife Angela Valamanesh Hossein ValamaneshBorn 1949 03 02 2 March 1949Tehran IranDied15 January 2022 2022 01 15 aged 72 Adelaide South AustraliaEducationTehran School of Art and South Australian School of ArtKnown forSculpture painting art installationAwardsVisual Arts Board grant Australia Council Grand Prize at the Dacca Biennale Bangladesh14 Pieces 2005 by Angela and Hossein Valamanesh in front of the South Australian Museum Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine at Hyde Park Barracks Sydney 1999 Detail of the Irish Famine memorial Detail of the Irish Famine memorial Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Art practice and works 3 Recognition and awards 4 Major exhibitions 5 Later life family and death 6 Public art collections 7 References 8 Further readingEarly life and education EditHossein Valamanesh was born in Tehran Iran on 2 March 1949 1 He worked with theatre director Bijan Mofid from 1968 to 1971 and graduated from at the Tehran School of Art in Tehran in 1970 2 3 He emigrated to Perth Western Australia in 1973 and while living there travelled to remote Aboriginal communities in WA where he felt a connection between their ancient culture and his own Persian culture 3 He worked with the Round Earth Company and Aboriginal children 2 He continued his art education at the South Australian School of Art after moving to Adelaide in 1974 3 graduating in 1977 4 2 Art practice and works Edit Descriptive plaque of The Australian Monument to The Great Irish Famine His work which includes sculpture painting installation and video art explores the paradoxes of selfhood existence and being It has been described as known and loved for its spare aesthetic sensibility parred back form and poetic visual imagery He used natural materials such as ochres sand and stones as well as leaves branches and twigs and drew inspiration from Sufi philosophy and Persian poetry 3 in particular that of the poet Djalal ad Din Rumi aka Rumi 5 He also employedd human forms and shadows 3 He completed a number of major public art commissions many with his wife Angela Valamanesh also an artist 6 His 1997 combined performance photographic and sculptural work Longing belonging which involved burning a Persian rug in the outback to explore the migrant experience is in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW 7 3 In 1998 he completed a large public artwork in Adelaide Knocking from the inside on the northern plaza of the Intercontinental Hotel on North Terrace 2 Angela and he together created An Gorta Mor the Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine 1999 at Hyde Park Barracks Sydney The monument one of many memorials to the catastrophe around the world is incorporated into the wall surrounding the Barracks and ironically stands on the site of the original kitchens there The table bowl tools and utensils are cast in bronze and the names of 420 women who arrived as famine orphans are etched into the glass part of the memorial walls Among the estimated 2 500 people attending the unveiling on 28 August 1999 were 800 famine orphan descendants 6 8 In October 2005 a piece of public art by Angela and Hossein incorporating water 14 Pieces situated on North Terrace in front of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide was officially unveiled Its form is based on the vertebrae of an extinct marine reptile the ichthyosaur 2 held by the museum 3 Hossein and Angela were commissioned by the City of Adelaide to create the sculpture to replace the Lavington Bonython fountain that had occupied the site from 1965 2 In 2008 he became involved with The Rug Project in which he used one of his works on paper Crazing made from stems of maidenhair fern as the basis for a rug design 9 Valamanesh worked closely over decades with the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide 5 Recognition and awards EditValamanesh was awarded a number of fellowships commissions grants residencies and other honours including 10 1982 Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts grant 1991 Visual Arts Board Fellowship Residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien 1997 Grand Prize at the 8th Asian Biennial 1998 Australia Council Fellowship in 1998 11 2 2010 Member of the Order of Australia on the Queen s Birthday Honours List on 14 June 2010 For service to the visual arts particularly as a sculptor and through installation works and public art 12 In 2013 Valamanesh featured in the ABC BBC joint production documentary series The Art Of Australia hosted by Edmund Capon in the first episode entitled Strangers in a Strange Land 13 In November 2022 Valamanesh was posthumously awarded the South Australian Premier s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Ruby Awards 14 Major exhibitions EditValamanesh s work has featured in many group exhibitions as well as major and minor solo exhibitions 15 2 His work has been shown in over 30 solo exhibitions around the world and been on display in Canada France United Kingdom Switzerland India United Arab Emirates Singapore Japan and Iran 5 2001 the first major survey of Valamanesh s work was held at the Art Gallery of South Australia 11 15 2002 Tracing the Shadow Hossein Valamanesh Recent Works Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney 15 2003 Hossein Valamanesh natural selection featuring a large selection of installations and smaller sculptural works at the Drill Hall Gallery Australian National University Canberra ACT 16 23 September 2021 19 February 2022 Puisque tout passe This Will Also Pass first European solo exhibition at the Institut des cultures d Islam fr in Paris 17 3 The art of both Angela and Hossein Valamanesh will have a strong presence in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Free State from 4 March 2022 5 Later life family and death EditOn 15 January 2022 Valamanesh died of a heart attack in Adelaide at the age of 72 4 18 19 20 He was survived by his wife Angela AM 3 18 and at least one child Nassiem 3 Angela Valamanesh was born in 1953 in Port Pirie South Australia She graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1992 and subsequently earned an MA at the University of South Australia She won the Anne amp Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 1996 using it to undertake postgraduate studies at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland She and Hossein undertook several public art projects together 2 Nassiem Valmanesh also an artist studied filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and as of 2021 update lives in Melbourne His work was featured in an exhibition with his father s at the Buxton Contemporary at the University of Melbourne in 2021 21 Public art collections EditValamanesh s work is included in major public art collections in Australia and abroad including Alice Springs Art Centre Alice Springs Artbank Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 22 Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth Gryphon Gallery University of Melbourne Kadist Art Foundation Paris France 5 Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney Australia 23 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington 5 National Gallery of Australia Canberra Australia 24 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 5 Newcastle Art Gallery Newcastle New South Wales Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane Sara Hilden Art Museum Finland 5 University of South Australia Adelaide University of Western Australia Perth University of Queensland Brisbane Western Australian Institute of Technology PerthReferences Edit Hossein Valamanesh b 2 March 1949 Design amp Art Australia Online 17 January 2022 Retrieved 9 February 2022 a b c d e f g h i Elton Jude 7 January 2014 14 Pieces Adelaidia Retrieved 9 February 2022 a b c d e f g h i j Speck Catherine 21 January 2022 Australian art has lost two of its greats Vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh The Conversation Retrieved 9 February 2022 a b McDonald Patrick 17 January 2022 Artist Hossein Valamanesh 72 dies suddenly The Advertiser Retrieved 18 January 2022 a b c d e f g h Noble Kelly 18 January 2022 Hossein Valamanesh remembered as a powerful and poetic international artist Glam Adelaide Retrieved 10 February 2022 a b McIntyre Perry May June 2013 Traces Inside History Ben Mercer 16 36 37 ISSN 1838 5044 Longing belonging Art Gallery of New South Wales Retrieved 15 April 2019 Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine Sydney Living Museums 18 December 2017 Retrieved 9 February 2022 Valamanesh Hossein 27 August 2008 Interview with Hossein Valamanesh Interview Interviewed by Kinski Klaus Archived from the original on 12 April 015 Retrieved 21 October 2009 Hossein Valamanesh b 2 March 1949 Recognitions Design amp Art Australia Online Retrieved 9 February 2022 a b Hossein Valamanesh A Survey Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide 29 June 26 August 2001 Artlink Magazine Retrieved 12 December 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Name Mr Hossein Valamanesh Australian Honours Search Facility Australian Government The Art of Australia ABC Arts Australian Broadcasting Corporation Retrieved 15 April 2019 The Ruby Awards Department of the Premier and Cabinet South Australia 28 November 2022 Retrieved 15 December 2022 a b c Hossein Valamanesh b 2 March 1949 Events Design amp Art Australia Online Retrieved 9 February 2022 Hossein Valamanesh natural selection Design amp Art Australia Online Retrieved 9 February 2022 Lai Beau 16 January 2022 Hossein Valamanesh Puisque tout passe Artist Profile Retrieved 9 February 2022 originally published in Artist Profile Issue 57 2021 a b Keen Suzie 17 January 2022 Leading local artist remembered for his powerful and poetic works InDaily Retrieved 18 January 2022 درگذشت نقاش ایرانی در خارج از کشور ISNA Retrieved 16 January 2022 حسین والامنش نقاش و مجسمه ساز ایرانی ساکن استرالیا درگذشت BBC Persian in Persian 16 January 2022 Retrieved 16 January 2022 Hossein amp Nassiem Valamanesh What Goes Around 2021 Buxton Contemporary Retrieved 9 February 2022 Collection Longing belonging 1997 by Hossein Valamanesh artgallery nsw gov au Retrieved 12 December 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Hossein Valamanesh MCA Australia Retrieved 12 December 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Valamanesh Hossein Falling Item held by National Gallery of Australia Retrieved 12 December 2019 Further reading Edit Hossein Valamanesh Puisque tout passe Art Gallery of South Australia 2021 Exhibition catalogue providing insight into his practice detailing significant life experiences that have profoundly influenced his works Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hossein Valamanesh amp oldid 1127655287, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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