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Love is a deer ascending into the sky

A look into Love Series by Master Eisa Ahmadi

By Maryam Roshanfekr – Nov.2016

Reason said unto Love I rise above you in the realm of being

Love replied I excel being and existence Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

In 1940 in the Cheshmeh-Ala neighborhood of Damavand an artist was born who brought to this city and his country beauty and love, Eisa Ahmadi is an unassuming artist who has spent a lifetime of serving art, creating notable works in painting, sculpture, architectural design and interior architecture. Throughout his life, along with producing and creating works of art, Eisa Ahmadi has assumed many jobs related to arts in the capacity of an executive. Being the founder of the first fine arts atelier in the town of Damavand called The House of Art, he has continually been training students in this atelier and Art University of Roodehen.

Eisa Ahmadi is a singular artist in his field, and shunning the artistic society and economic gains of creating art has enabled him to take the path embedded in his lived personal experience and his spiritual and mental preoccupations and aspirations. This explains why his works have managed to eschew the dominant trends in his time, taking an altogether different path.

Ahmadis method of creating his works is a combination of traditional craftsmanship, modern sculpture and contemporary line sculpture, stamping upon them his personal touch to give his works a tactile and mystical feel. From a conceptual point of view, he approaches art in a poetic manner and has close ties with Persian literature, and the juxtaposition of animals like deer and butterflies with the word love testifies to this close affinity. A further manifestation of his affinity with Persian literature is the concept of love, a recurring concept in this literature, which is been given a central place in his works, where the direct use of this word is a common motif.

Drawing on such shapes recurring in Iranian ancient art as Eslimi arabesque and curvilinear forms, which are fragile but possess an ascending characteristic, Eisa Ahmadi has represented his view of love, which is tender, fragile and ephemeral. In this series, he has made an attempt to recall that aspect of the world that would make love possible.

What is mostly present in these works is the movement choreographed by the concept of love, that eternal dance of life which Ahmadi attempts to capture and embody in these works. His works, which have wood as their material, show with fluidity the same natural and alive feel as wood through curvilinear lines. Notwithstanding their singularity, these works have a familiar ring about them, whats more, they lay bare the inner world of the artist, and this characteristic they acquire thanks to the artists use of Iranian wood carving.

In his works, we could perceive worn out deer eager to reach the sky, climbing the fragile stem of love, there are also butterflies sitting on this stem. They are interlaced into each other like ivy, as if aspiring to unite into a single body. An image signifying that love, hailing from far reaches of the world, and embodied as a deer, is seeking the sky.

Eisa Ahmadis works aspire to intervene in a barren and immoral contemporary art scene. It is a feeling arising from beautiful human feelings becoming inaccessible and fading away from the modern world. Through these works, he slakes his thirst to see these beauties as well as presenting them to others and invites his audience to join him in feeling and reliving these fragile, familiar and conceptual curvature whose originality appears to be forgotten.

Artist Exhibitions



I am in the process of compiling my past and current exhibition opportunities.

Artist Publications



IRNA News Agency, A Ceremony for Honoring a Supreme Visual Artist in Damavand, 2016
Panart Online Magazine, Tribute to Eisa Ahmadi: Conference and Exhibition, 2016
Khabar Farsi News Agency, Tribute to Eisa Ahmadi, Founder of Damavand Visual Arts, 2016
Tarood News, Exhibition and Ceremony for Eisa Ahmadi, Founder of Damavand Visual Arts, 2016
Gallery Info Online Art Events, Ceremony and Exhibition for Eisa Ahmadi, Founder of Visual Arts in Damavand, 2016
Nim Negah Magazine, Ceremony in honoring Eisa Ahmadi, founder of Damavand Visual Arts, 2016
Tandis Magazine, Tribute to Eisa Ahmadi, 2016
Art Portal, Ceremony and Exhibition for Eisa Ahmadi, 2016
2016 Rah-e Dana News Network, Exhibition Opening for Honoring Eisa Ahmadi, Founder of Damavand Visual Arts, 2016
Fars News, Tribute to Eisa Ahmadi, Founder of Visual Arts in Tehran Roof + Pictures, 2016 Fars News, In Honoring Eisa Ahmadi, Creating a suitable atmosphere for Visual Arts in Damavand, 2016
Persian Multimedia, Exhibition to pay tributes to founder of visual arts in Damavand, 2016
Keyhan Newspaper, Exhibit to Pay Tributes to Founder of Visual Arts in Damavand, 2016
Tehran Times Newspaper, Damavand cultural officials to honor artist Isa Ahmadi, 2016
Mehr News, Exhibit to pay tributes to founder of visual arts in Damavand, 2016
Damavand Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Celebration of Life and Works by Professor Eisa Ahmadi, 2016
Tehran Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Honoring Professor Eisa Ahmadi in Damavand , 2016
Fars News, Conference and Exhibition in Honor of the Founder of Damavand's Visual Arts, 2016
Shabestan News Agency, A Tribute to Eisa Ahmadi Founder of Damavand Visual Arts Association, 2016
Damavand Islamic Azad University, Scholars of Damavand, 2015
IRNA Exhibition Opening, The Secret of Colors in Damavand, 2014
Rahavard Art Magazine, Art is the Everlasting and Effective Language, 2011
TV5 - Tehran TV , Eisa Ahmadi Artworks, 2010
Rahavard Art Magazine, Paintings of Damavand's History and Culture by Eisa Ahmadi, 2000
Rahavard Magazine, Damavand's Fridays' Prayer Leader Visited Kahne Honar - Eisa Ahmadi's Art Institute, 1999
Damavand Nameh - Rahavard Magazine, An Interview with "Eisa Ahmadi", 1998
Rahavard Magazine, Damavand Governor's Visited Ahmadi's Atelier, 1996...

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Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.

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