Ecological Art

Ahmad Nadalian created many carved socks. His early carved art named Rive Art project which is a very well-known. The collection started in Polour as a set of carvings at the Haraz River near Mt. Damavand (near the village of Poloor, 65 kilometers from the Tehran-Amol road). This series, which he has named “River Art”, is composed of carved rocks that have been abandoned at the site where they were created. He intends to transform this area into a permanent repository for his art. Instead of being displayed in a gallery or museum, the artwork has been presented in nature itself.  

Now most of Nadalian works are scattered across the earth.  His environmental art projects, include the carving of rocks that can be found in more than seventy countries such as  Italy, USA, England, Germany, Spain, France, China, South Korea,  Hungary,  Slovakia, Netherlands,   Greece,  Russia, Uzbekistan,  Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Finland, Lebanon, Syria,  Azerbaijan,  Sweden, Denmark,  United Arab Emirates,  Qatar,  Kuwait, Turkey, Switzerland, Serbia, South Africa, Austria, Cyprus, Georgia, Japan, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Thailand, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia ...and his homeland Iran.

I have made large example of cylindrical seals adorned with my own designs. I then rolled these cylinder seals onto the surface of sand and performed my environmental works.

The rolling of these cylinders results in a harvest of myriad living creatures that adorn the sand of the beach front. My seals are quite diverse in terms of their shape, size and the materials used. Large cylinder seals are suitable for printing on sand and small seals can be printed on clay.

 

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