Tehran,
No.130, West Hoveyzeh St. North Sohrevardi Ave. Tehran
4 October 2019
Tāgh or Tākh [Haloxylon] is a tree with a robust trunk which fire stands for tens of nights.
Dehkhoda Dictionary
For Nosrati, “Tāgh” seems to be a pretext so as to work on trees. In this collection, he considered beyond a tree and has challenged the verge of abstraction and figuration. They are both trees and yet not trees only; such as elements of nature who, in disguise of historical witnesses, narrate the myth of life. Today, Tāgh might be the saviour of the living desert of ours; free, generous, healer, resistant, warm and life-giving! Nosrati’s tree though lives with impatience and restless, for it is merely an image; an image of the unachievable in which fire we are burning in. The “folding” lines are an emphasis on them being unreal while they are actually the artist’s touches of lines. By moving in between abstraction and reality, he presents works which are not about trees, but they are rather about reality. The trees and lines are both images; it is as if whatever is remained is not what it should be.
Dehkhoda Dictionary
For Nosrati, “Tāgh” seems to be a pretext so as to work on trees. In this collection, he considered beyond a tree and has challenged the verge of abstraction and figuration. They are both trees and yet not trees only; such as elements of nature who, in disguise of historical witnesses, narrate the myth of life. Today, Tāgh might be the saviour of the living desert of ours; free, generous, healer, resistant, warm and life-giving! Nosrati’s tree though lives with impatience and restless, for it is merely an image; an image of the unachievable in which fire we are burning in. The “folding” lines are an emphasis on them being unreal while they are actually the artist’s touches of lines. By moving in between abstraction and reality, he presents works which are not about trees, but they are rather about reality. The trees and lines are both images; it is as if whatever is remained is not what it should be.
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