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PRESS RELEASE

Pejman Ebadi: Tales from the Other Side

28th April- 24th May 2014

‘For me, creating comes closer to something that I would describe as a shamanistic

voyage… its language belongs to another world, rather, to the other world; the world of

the unknown and the unseen- that which the visible is merely a mirror of.’ Pejman Ebadi

This spring, Hay Hill Gallery presents the weird and wonderful world of Iranian

born artist Pejman Ebadi. Spanning over two decades, the artist’s wildly diverse

style encompasses scrawling angry creatures, sun-striped horizons, withered

swastikas and voodoo symbols. The gods and goddesses of mythology battle out

their wars on canvas; their bad tempered dragons and slack-jawed totems

menace the bright Aztec colours.

Nose-less figures with elliptical eyes and wizened grins stare blankly through

arched orange eyebrows; their bizarre black skeletons are like Indonesian shadow

puppets, awkwardly stretching and joining behind a light box. Long necked

characters with curving beaks, pointed wings and wicked amber glints sit under

peacock-eyed nights full of stars; the outlines of leaves in jet and sapphire are a

cuckoo-clock for stick birds. They watch meteor showers, fall out of the sun and

wander about lonely in the fog; they peer round corners with suspicion or stare

off into the distance resolutely.

Pejman is an improvisational artist, working straight onto his canvases without

planning what the finished piece will be. The blank page compels him to create

form and colour, drawing them out of instinct. With each stab in the dark, the

artist mesmerises us with the unseen things that lurk below the surface. The wind

howls and witch doctors present their sacrifices wearing truly terrible masks.

Bringing his compositions to life with fierce graffiti, this young Picasso-Basquiat is

surely a force to be reckoned with. Inside his spellbound worlds, the word

becomes flesh.

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Pejman Ebadi was born in Tehran, Iran 1982, at the height of the Iran-Iraq war. At the

age of two, his family fled the war stricken homeland to find refuge in France. At only four

years old, Pejman’s father discovered his precocious gift for painting and encouraged him

to express himself freely without any particular guidance. Without formal art education,

the young Pejman taught himself by studying works of major 20th century artists. His first

exhibition was when he was six years old and since 1990, he has held fifty solo exhibitions

North America and Europe. Pejman now lives and works in Nice.

Selected Exhibitions

2013 GALERIE DANIEL BOERI- Monte Carlo

2012 FORM & COLORS - Metz

2011 HERVE SHIMONI GALLERY – Spring- Metz

2010 GALERIE ANNE MOERCHEN – 21/04 to 22/06- Hamburg

2009 SEYHOUN GALLERY- Los Angeles

GALLERY HERVE SHIMONI – Cheminement: 20 Years of Painting- Metz

2008 ODETTE GILBERT FINE ART (March-May)- online exhibition - London

2007 ARSENAL - Act III - curated by Hervé Shimoni- Metz

2006 BOLLAG GALLERIES- Zurich

2005 ORIGINAL GALLERY - Nice

2004 LE TEMPLE- curated by Bob Morse - Lacaze

2003 GILDO PASTOR CENTER GALLERY- Monte Carlo

2002 GALLERI KREBSEN- Copenhagen

PALLAZO DEI CONGRESSI- curated by Artan Shabani-Limone Sul Garde

GALERIE GERARD CHOMARAT- Lyon

GALERIE M- Emmindingen

2001 ORIGINAL GALLERY- Nice

2000 ARSENAL (a retrospective) - curated by Hervé Shimoni - Metz

GALERIE BRAUN- Wuppertal

GALERIE DES TROPIQUES- Tahiti

GALERIE SIMON BLAIS- Montreal

Notes to Editors: Hay Hill Gallery, located on Baker Street, represents a number of

internationally recognised contemporary artists. This exhibition will be held alongside a

sculpture collection which features works by Eleanor Cardozo, Richard Minns, Palolo

Valdés, Massimiliano & Alfonso Cacchiarelli, Jamie McCartney, Gianfranco Meggiato, Andy

Cheese, Ian Edwards and Nicola Godden.

For press information and images please contact Sarah Jones,

sarah@hayhillgallery.com

Hay Hill Gallery, 35 Baker Street, London W1U 8EN

Tel: 020 7486 6006

Opening hours: Monday – Friday 10.30-6, Saturday 11-5

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