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Shahin De Heart

Tubes have known Shahin for some time, her paintings having
featured in painters Tubes magazine before today.
It was an issue that featured many great artworks of which Shahin’s
paintings were outstanding examples of the expressive paintings
on view in that issue.
The work shown in TAG #4 provides the reader with an expanded
view of Shahin’s art from 2016/7.

Recently she has started to introduce figurative elements into her paintings.
Below Shahin gives a summary of the reasoning behind her work, of which the main driver
has been the removal of cultural barriers...
“...When I was eleven years old I was awarded a prize for the best
young painter in Tehran. The spiritual part of the prize was a ‘Hafiz’ Divan volume book
bound in green fabric. This book, in which our famous Persian poet sings of nature, love and
friendship in mystically allegorical tones, has accompanied my whole artistic life since all my
abstract pictures are titled Hafiz.

The following lines of ‘Haziz’ poetry have never let me go...
‘...Come, let us scatter blossoms, let us pour wine into the cups, let us open the roof of
heaven and design each day a new world.’
With these lines Hafez challenged his fellow-men to unremitting,
sensual, aesthetic creativity constructive world-critical view and constant aesthetic rebellion
were and are one. In this sense, I believe in the future of painting and the advancement
of modern art, and strive to open new ways to the past and future of Europe and Asia with a
new world language of painting.”