Meet Kamyar Binestarigh on the Sanlam Arts Round Up
Uncover: Kamyar Binestarigh is an exciting exhibition and the inaugural edition of the Bowmans Young Artists Commissioned Exhibition at Norval Foundation.
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Kamyar talks us through his exhibition and discusses the way he started and how his time studying overlapped and interacted with his working at his career as an artist. He also talks about his experimentation with materiality and language and how important process is in the development of his work
Kamyar Bineshtarigh was born in Semnan, Iran. He lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2021, he was awarded the Simon Gerson Prize for an outstanding body of work for his graduate exhibition at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. He received a Diploma in Fine Art at Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2019 where he also won the Ruth Prowse Award for his body of work An Exhaustive Catalogue of Texts Dealing with the Orient which explored Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism using Said’s eponymous book (1978) as the source material. As noted in the interview, the video at the entrance to the exhibition provides insight into Kaymar’s process.
It is only by viewing the work and appreciating the layers, textures and mark making that you will realise the reference to this extraordinary body of work being “off the wall” is meant as a sincere complement!
Brief Biography
In 2021, Bineshtarigh was awarded a Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) Fellowship, an interdisciplinary project by the National Research Foundation and UCT studying socially engaged artistic practices in Africa and its diaspora. In the same year, Bineshtarigh participated in a number of group exhibitions including My Whole Body Changed into Something Else at Stevenson Gallery. In 2019, he was invited to create a mural inscribed across the facade of the AVA Gallery as part of their 50th anniversary programming. Inspired by the freedom that comes with a DIY-spirit, between 2020 and 2021 Bineshtarigh curated his own independent solo show showcasing his body of work (Hafez) The Tongue of the Unseen Realms in an exhibition space in a factory warehouse in Salt River, Cape Town. In 2022, he presented koples boek(e) at the Goethe Insitut and recently installed a site specific piece for the recent Good Neighbours Open Laboratory at the Nirox Sculpture Park.
WHAT: Uncover: Kamyar Binestarigh
WHERE: Norval Foundation, 4 Steenberg Road. Tokai, Cape Town 7945
language and how important process is in the development of his work
