Alireza Varzandeh: Easy Days IV

"There is no doubt about it – the human being – mostly singly, in small groups, no mass gatherings - is the focus." (Alireza Varzandeh)

You can recognize yourself in this pictorial world. Many of those standing here have inspired the artist. And yet it is not possible to recognize any individuals. With few exceptions – and then the picture does have a name attached to it. However, the people on the canvases mostly have a symbolic character. It is about each one of us, but also about the indissoluble ties that connect us in our society and our world. In Good as well as in Evil. For Alireza Varzandeh, with his experiences in the Orient and the Occident, has cast a very precise and very critical eye over our times.

Though the pictures, presented at Alireza Varzandeh's exhibition "No Art Just Painting" at Dagmar Schmidla Galerie until March 20, 2010, do show beautiful summer scenes – people with their feet in the water, attractive women in bikinis and well-built men on expensive bikes; they also show labourers building roads, and others. They refer to conflicts going on in the world, to potentates and influential people of all kinds and to surveillance states. And where you feel really comfortable then in the very next picture there is discomfort and cause to reflect. Then somehow everything does concern each and every one of us, as the artist makes clear to us.