Masoud
Sadedin

BiographyMasoud Sadedin was born in Semnan, Iran, in 1956 and graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University. In 1986 he immigrated to Germany, since then he works as a freelance artist and lecturer.His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions, international art fairs and major exhibitions in Germany and abroad. In addition to painting, Sadedin is involved as an author of performance and theater plays as well as texts on the visual arts. In 2016, Masoud Sadedin became the eighth laureate of the Kunstpreis art award and then he was honoured with an exhibition featuring his work and a book, published by the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, to accompany the exhibition.Masoud Sadedin lives and works in Troisdorf and has a studio in the Kunsthaus Troisdorf. Visit by appointment.Solo Exhibitions:2018 LVR - Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn - Germany2017 "Invisible", Kunstverein des Rhein Sieg Kreis, Siegburg - Germany2016 Museum of the city Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2014 Lülsdorfer Turm, Niederkassel, Niederkassel - Germany2014 "Die Schwelle", Kunsthaus Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2012 Studio in the art house of the city Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2011 International Exhibition Nord Art, Büdelsdorf - Germany2011 Art Bologna, Bologna -Italy2009 Gallery Homa, Tehran - Iran2008-2009 International exhibition Nord-Art 08 and 09, Büdelsdorf - Germany2008 Gallery Homa, Tehran, Tehran - Iran2007 Great Art Exhibition NRW, Dusseldorf - Germany2007 Gallery Aria, Tehran - Iran2006 "Text Drawings, Museum of the City of Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2006 Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg - Germany2004 Art Prize of the City of Dierdorf, Dierdorf - Germny2004 Bonn artist in the Kulturforum Burgkloster, Lübeck, Lübeck -Germany2003 Exemplary Afterimage, Homage a Lucas Cranach d. A., Lutherstadt, Wittenberg2001 Documentation Exhibition "Nullkunst" with P.F. Farkas, Historical Institute for Art History at the University of Bonn, Bonn - Germany1999 Museum of the City of Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany1993 – 1994 Great Art Exhibition NRW, Dusseldorf - Germany1990 Bread factory / Bonn, Bonn - Germany1986 University of the City Tour / France, Tours - France1975-1886 Several solo and group exhibitions in the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Rasht and Semnan, IranGroup Exhibitions:2018 Komeshian in Sareban Gallery, Tehran - Iran2018 “Geography and Culture” in d’Angers Gallery, Semnan - Iran2015 Kunstverein for the Rheinsieg Kreis, Kunsthaus, Troisdorf - Germany2012-2013 Kunsthaus Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2011 Museum Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2010 "Iran Today", gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome and gallery BrigitteSchenk in Cologne, Cologne - Germany2004 Artist forum of the city of Bonn, Bonn - Germany2004 District museum of the city Neuwied, Neuwied - Germany2003 Museum of the City of Troisdorf, Troisdorf - Germany2000 Gallery Shambala, Copenhagen / Denmark, Tehran-IranEducation1976-1980 Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran - IranPublications:2006 Book "Memories are Landscape" at Goethe & Hafis Verlag BonnAchievement2016 Winner of the Rheinische Kunstpreis  Alexandra Kass on the works of Masoud SadedinA young man, in a dark pair of trousers and white shirtsleeves, is standing in the middle of a wooden scaffold which insinuates a room expanding behind him and vaguely evokes a construction site. Carelessly, it seems — or maybe intentionally draped over the upper slats in the background — is a piece of white material which might be a piece of clothing, a curtain, or a stretch of cloth. We see the man in profile and the quality of the colourful, deeply saturated, accentuated brush strokes, literally modelling the person, render the material dif-ferences between clothing, skin and hair just as palpable as the ma¬terial the surrounding wooden scaffold is made of. The room that spans around and behind the man is skillfully evoked by various hues of blue. The man is holding a journal, a notebook, a book, his left fo-rearm positioned between the pages, as if to mark and not to lose a certain page that seems to contain a picture which we cannot dis¬tinguish clearly. The man's quiet, serious gaze is focused on the book but is obviously more absorbed in its cover than in the marked page. The paintings are entitled “With the Book’. Yet, these few words do not adequately describe what makes up the figure of this young man or those in countless other works of Sadedin's.When I see these figures, I ask myself whether they are completely withdrawn, disconnected from reality, as if their conscience, for a moment, was less in tune with their bodies than with their surroun¬dings instead. Or whether, on the contrary, they are completely in¬trospective, at ease with and tightly focused on themselves and on what they are doing. And maybe there is no contradiction here. .... please read the complete text in his book here: http://online.fliphtml5.com/lpadz/udja/