Yaghoub Emdadian Information

Yaqub Emdadian (born in December 1948) is a contemporary Iranian painter. Childhood and education He was born in Tabriz. In 1345, he entered Mirek Fine Arts Conservatory in Tabriz and then graduated from Tehran Fine Arts Conservatory in 1348. He has a bachelor’s degree in painting and a master’s degree in graphics from the Faculty of Decorative Arts of Tehran University. Professional activities In the years after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Emdadian played an important role in preserving works of art and holding exhibitions in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. His works have been displayed in dozens of domestic and foreign exhibitions in the form of individual and group exhibitions. In addition to his painting career, he has a thirty-year experience in the field of mastering works of art, organizing and implementing biennales and large exhibitions in the country and abroad. Together with his son, he currently manages Hor Gallery in Tehran, which was established in 2004. Yaghoub Emdadian is an artist fixated with concepts of colour, space, proportion and geometry. His abstract landscapes recall the visual template of Iranian miniatures, where a scene would be flanked by cartouches of calligraphy, yet Emdadian’s depiction is devoid of any narrative. This striking abstraction is a testament to simplicity and purity of solitary colours, which are free from the distortion of detail. The resulting image is one which affirms the power of the obscure over the particular.