Y.z.
Kami
Y.z.
Kami
Kami
Iranian, born in 1966
Iranian portrait poet Y.Z. Kami is the heir to a thousand-year-old tradition pursuing a quest for the unknown and the infinite by painting human features. Inspired by Fayum portraits, Byzantine frescoes, sacred texts, geometry and architecture, he depicts figures whose solitude and modesty offer us a reflection of our own morality.
Kami paints oil on linen portraits of relatives, friends and strangers. His models, their eyes sometimes closed, sometimes open, stare at the horizon or look down, exuding spiritual humility. A philosopher by training, he also uses abstraction, painting concentric geometric shapes that evoke pulsations and the transition from darkness to light.
The painting In Jerusalem by Y.Z. Kami, which is in the Pinault Collection, was presented in 2009 during the exhibition "Un certain état du monde ?" (“A Certain State of the World?”) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
Kami paints oil on linen portraits of relatives, friends and strangers. His models, their eyes sometimes closed, sometimes open, stare at the horizon or look down, exuding spiritual humility. A philosopher by training, he also uses abstraction, painting concentric geometric shapes that evoke pulsations and the transition from darkness to light.
The painting In Jerusalem by Y.Z. Kami, which is in the Pinault Collection, was presented in 2009 during the exhibition "Un certain état du monde ?" (“A Certain State of the World?”) at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
