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Architectuur

Navid Nuur

“When Navid Nuur (b. 1976, Teheran) talks about his work he often uses terms like ‘clean’ or ‘pure’ or occasionally even ‘warm’. The way in which he relates to material, the space around him and his observations regarding this could almost be described as devout. Through his attention to detail and the careful coordination of the various components of a work or an exhibition the spectator becomes a participant in an ‘internal’ world. Nuur’s work – which at first glance appears to be developed very conceptually – reveals a highly personal approach to image in which the presentation of the question plays a central role. How a certain phrase requires a specific structure for example or how variations in tones of red and blue can evoke different shades of purple for example.

What Nuur shares with the conceptual artists of the sixties is the relationship between concept and form. However in his work form is not simply a result of the idea but develops by way of a subjective programme of requirements or rules in which intuition plays a key role. Navid Nuur says: ‘it is a certainty based on feeling which I can only explain later on. However if you have to rationalize a work in order to justify it , it becomes conceptually dead.’ He uses concepts that are related to a temporary interim situation that places his work between the spectator and what is often an abstract phenomenon such as light, energy, air or ‘remaining/ residual space’. Nuur’s formal idiom and the meaning he attributes to a work are therefore purely part of a process. His work is in fact a depiction of this process and is therefore transitory in almost all of its manifestations. Consequently, it would be better to describe the installations, drawings and objects he creates as ‘thought models’. Which is why he prefers to refer to his works as’ interimodules’ where the word ‘module’ refers to the way of thinking and the actual conceptualising of it and ‘interim’ to the temporary ‘between’, the process aspect of his work”

Thibaut Verhoeven, Curator S.M.A.K
Stedelijk museum voor actuele kunst, Gent

CONTACT

info@navidnuur.nl
www.navidnuur.nl

RECENT WERK

'Another window in my studio,..' , 2008-2009, Mixed media

'GRAND QUEST IONS', 2007-2009, emergency blanket, rooftop coating,117/82cm

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'Some bad ideas turned into a bigger and better sculpture', 2007-2009 Some bad ideas on paper filled with metal, stone, wood, putty 16/18/30cm

'THRESHOLDER (as Pillar)' , 2007-2009 Oasis flower blocks (Hand shaped) 80/80/250cm

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