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The Guests of Desert: 22nd Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Isfahan- Talab Gawkhoni: (April 2009)

Dialogue with Nature: 21st Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Persian Gulf- Genaveh: (March 2009)

Works by Ahmad Nadalian in Darabad - North Tehran

In the Search of Lost Paradise

Environmental Art Festivals

Bicycle Art & Recycle Art

Mythological Bird: 20th Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Persian Gulf- Hormoz : (February 2009)

Bicycle Art & Recycle Art

Archetypal story: Earth painting

A gift of Persian Gulf from me to people and from people to tourists

Red earth surrounded my soul

Transformation of ugliness to beauty

A ritual for rain & feet traces

Work by Ahmad Nadalian @ Environmental Art Calender 2009 in USA

Paintings by Coloured Earth

The Fall of Paradise: 19th Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Isfahan : (October 2008)

In Paradise

Jumping Frogs

Journey across South Africa: The Sprit of Rocks and Water

Calendar of our journey in South Africa

Black & White People

Sand Print in Africa

Freed Fish

Paradise & Hell :18th Environmental Art Festival

Art in the Landscape

Marked in Stone and Sand

An Iranian sculptor brings his art to the river, beaches—and parks.

By Robert C. Morgan

In Paradise

Pleasure of New life

Art in the Landscape

Marked in Stone and Sand

An Iranian sculptor brings his art to the river, beaches—and parks.

By Robert C. Morgan

In the past two years there has been a great demand for environmental art in Iran. Many young artists from different parts of Iran invite me to be part of different environmental events and realize their art works in nature. They are many and I can not have all of them in one occasion, but I have been pleased to organize different events and respond to this essential need of our society. Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.

Direct Dialogue of two Iranian and American artists for Peace

"The Bird of Peace”

On the first January 2008 we received British sculptor, Benjamin Hewett (Ben) who came to our Paradise. On the 2^nd of April 2008, Ben went back home. Before he left I give him one of my carvings which had a design of a bird. I called this bird “the Bird of Peace”. Ben will take it home and make a nest in a hollow of a tree where he lives and this bird will start a new life.

Sculpture Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 2) March 2008

Green People

"The Bird of Peace”

Nests for Birds

هیچ مرغی بی آشیانه نخواهد ماند !

UNDER THE DOME OF TIME:
Two Iranian Sculptors

By Professor Robert C. Morgan

The concept of permanence in sculpture is almost a subliminal aspect of Persian culture. It is a culture that virtually defines meaning in art according to how long the work will last. Then again, for artists like Behrooz Daresh and Ahmad Nadalian, the idea of permanence as a criterion in art is clearly beginning to change. They are interested in a more conceptual approach, and, to some extent, a more implicitly political approach. More

Sculpture Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 2) March 2008

Nadalian @ Dialogues in Diversity

By John K. Grande

Benjamin Hewett

Print on Sanin in Maranjab Desert

Black & White People

Sand Print in Africa

Freed Fish

Design of fish- Sea of Salt

Dream of Peace in Persian Gulf

Interview with Barbara Roux

Interview with Abigail Doan

A Journey to Serbia

New Borders

Seduced Couple

Dream of Peace in Persian Gulf

Peace in Persian Gulf

Other works in Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (December 2007)

Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (More Works) (December 2007)

Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival

Works in China

Report: Kerman Environmental Art Festival

Prehistoric Fish Found in Central Park

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Abigail Doan

A week or so ago my Iranian artist friend, Dr. Ahmad Nadalian, visited New York City and several other US cities on an official invite for a sponsored exhibition that he was having in Washington, D.C. I met him on a bright, sunny morning in the northern woods of Central Park where he was carving several of his 'prehistoric' river art fishes. Dr. Nadalian has a long tradition of submerging his carved rocks in rivers and bodies of water where they might forever add to the spirit and environmental protection of the place. The artist also views the fish symbol as being emblematic of the human soul.

Amazingly, before tossing one of his carved rocks into a pool below a rushing waterfall, a local turtle made an appearance adjacent to the rock that was soon to be submerged. A sign perhaps that the native species of an urban park approve of this new addition to their habitat?

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Works in Rock Creek River- Washington DC

Works in Tajikistan

The image has significant meaning for Native Americans – in that it is a vessel for the spirit and holiness of peoples and place. A constant reminder also that "No one should harm or disrespect their sacred burial ground".

Red People - Kansas City Missouri

Carved Stones in New York

Carved Stones in Santa Fe (New Mexico)

Holiness of Image Hidden Treasure in Santa Fe (New Mexico)

Environmental Works by Ahmad Nadalian in UK

Environmental Works by Ahmad Nadalian in Turkey

Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Gulf

Reaction to ignoring historic site

Sand Print in Desert

New Carved Rocks in Hormoz Island (Persian Gulf) March 2007

Reaction to ignoring historic site

Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival

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Nadalian: River Art

An interview by John K. GRANDE

Nadalian is an Iranian sculptor whose life's work involves engendering respect for living creatures and the natural environment. To achieve this, besides living with nature himself, he established sculpture grounds in a peaceful environment in natural surroundings. Water is a living element that contributes to his sculptures, and many of the symbols he engraves and sculpts are derived from ancient mythology and the rituals of pre-Islamic civilizations. more

Nadalian in Green Museum

By carving simple fish shapes and other forms onto small stones and river rocks, artist Ahmad Nadalian seeks to repopulate the spirit of neglected streams and rivers in his native Iran and around the world and share these treasures with future generations. more

Journey across South Africa: The Sprit of Rocks and Water

Calendar of our journey in South Africa

Black & White People

Sand Print in Africa

Freed Fish

Utne Magazine May-June 2006 USA

Ahmad Nadalian
[Iran]

A human who loves stones and water, Ahmad Nadalian moves like a fish transgressing international borders. More

About Ahmad Nadalian

By Professor Robert C. Morgan

"I was so impressed with your concept, working at low tide in the early mornings to carve signs that during the day would be concealed. It calls into question so much about time, history, language, meaning, and sculpture." More

About Ahmad Nadalian

By : Edward Lucie-Smith

In Iran, Ahmad Nadalian (b.1963) is in the process of creating an immense River Art installation along the banks and amidst the waters of the Haraz River, near Mount Damavend. More

Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Golf Works By Ahmad Nadalian

Art Tomorrow

Nests

Nuclear energy

Travel to France : Exhibition & Works by Nadalian in Ramatuelle- Golfe de Saint Tropez in France (From Escalet to Pampelonne)

Nadalian: River Art

An interview by John K. GRANDE

Nadalian in Green Museum

Utne Magazine May-June 2006 USA

Ahmad Nadalian
[Iran]

A human who loves stones and water, Ahmad Nadalian moves like a fish transgressing international borders. More

About Ahmad Nadalian

By Professor Robert C. Morgan

About Ahmad Nadalian

By : Edward Lucie-Smith

In Iran, Ahmad Nadalian (b.1963) is in the process of creating an immense River Art installation along the banks and amidst the waters of the Haraz River, near Mount Damavend. More

Art Tomorrow

Nests

Nuclear energy

Click Here to Download larger size Images

Nadalian: River Art

An interview by John K. GRANDE

Nadalian in Green Museum

Utne Magazine May-June 2006 USA

Ahmad Nadalian
[Iran]

A human who loves stones and water, Ahmad Nadalian moves like a fish transgressing international borders. More

About Ahmad Nadalian

By Professor Robert C. Morgan

About Ahmad Nadalian

By : Edward Lucie-Smith

In Iran, Ahmad Nadalian (b.1963) is in the process of creating an immense River Art installation along the banks and amidst the waters of the Haraz River, near Mount Damavend. More

Art Tomorrow

Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage

Environmental Works by Ahmad Nadalian in Turkey

Works in Rock Creek River- Washington DC

Works in USA

New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy

Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian

Works in USA

New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy

Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian

Works in USA

New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy

Works in Iran

Mythological Treasures or Contemporary Art

Sand Prints

Works In Germany

Works in Turkey

Print on Sand in the Coast of Persian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian

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Print on Sanin in Maranjab Desert

Design of fish- Sea of Salt

Online Haftsin

Benjamin Hewett

Print on Sanin in Maranjab Desert

Accident and Improvisation: Works on Wali Asr Street, Tehran

Manifestations of Contemporary Art in Iran

Carved Stones in Santa Fe (New Mexico)

Exhibition of works by Ahmad Nadalian

Collaboration with Children

Benjamin Hewett

Collaboration with Children

The Art of Recycling: Ahmad Nadalian

Paradise Art News Persian

Call for International Environmental Art Festival

Paradise: The International Residential Center of Environmental Art

1 to 15 August - 2009

Deadline: 5 July , 2009

The environmental art Festival will begin on August 1, 2009 and will be ended on 15 August – 2009.

The artists will realize environmental art projects in the nature of Iran.

http://www.wwwebart.com/riverart/paradise/call

Earth Artist & Earth Painting
Works by Ahmad Nadalian

Works by Ahmad Nadalian at Mahe- Mehr Gallery

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The Guests of Desert: 22nd Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Isfahan- Talab Gawkhoni: (April 2009)

Report by Ahmad Nadalian

Photos by Raheleh Zomorodina (Minosh and Ahmad Nadalian)

http://www.wwwebart.com/riverart/paradise/festivals/gawkhoni/

Last month (April 2009) an Environmental Arts Festival was held in the central desert of Iran, near Isfahan .

We stopped by a sand hill and I printed my new cylinder seals. I was followed by two young filmmakers Lila and Saber who are making a documentary about my recent works.

I used Hormuz red earth to draw flamingos.

Pure red earth on a salty, wet platform.

Snakes and humans.

My German friend Sibyll kalff sends here childhood polar bears. She asked me to take them along on one of my journeys. Here, in the salty sea, they seem to be in North Pole!

The other artists created many other projects.

My circle

Black mountain beside Talab Gawkhoni

Collaborative project

Some artist assisted me to create this big snake.

Mitra and Sanke

During the festival I presented my recent cylinder seals which show birds and snake. I printed these cylinder seals on the desert terrain.

My sand print installation in a house.

The migration of flamingos in April, by Talab Gawkhoni .

Hunting is forbidden, but as evidence shows, how many flamengos were hunted !

I also printed my snakes

A pigeon tower

Pigeon Tower (Borj-e-Kabotar) is a strange building that lookes like a cylinder from outside. This three story structure is built around a central cylinder-shaped wall with holes in it.

The function of this building is to protects pigeons especially in winter from the cold. It was also advantageous to farmers in the days of old, as the waste collected from these pigeons could be used as a natural fertilizer.

This pigeon tower is under demolition

Minosh in pigeon tower

I found two fragmented pieces of pottery near the pigeon tower and drew pigeons. As an ode to the pigeon tower, I placed a piece of this pottery back inside it.

A destroyed pigeon tower on a farm.

There has been a significant drop in pigeon tower numbers from the thousands reported in seventeenth century accounts of Safavid Isfahan by French traveler Chardin, to the present day count of approximately a hundred remaining in the entire province. As an environmental artist, I would say we need to protect existing ones and build more. By doing so, man and nature can live in optimal harmony; the best way is that of an organic life and organic agriculture.

In Warzaneh I also found a fragmented tile and carved my fish

In Warzaneh women traditionally wear white veils. This is another impression of Iran. It may rooted to ancient Zoroastrian tradition.

On our way to Isfahan, I saw the dome of a mosque behind an empty factory. Juxtaposed with such magnificent and ancient architecture, I also came upon this cell phone tower.

What sort of view is this? We are living in strange time.

We can compare it to this mosque in Isfahan.

An old building which seemed as if it was looking and speaking to me.

Mithra in coach.

I had a presentation in the coach

Last photo in train rail way station

Dialogue with Nature: 21st Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Persian Gulf- Genaveh: (March 2009)

Report by Ahmad Nadalian

Photos Album

Last month (March 2009) an environmental art festival was held in the western part of Persian Gulf. The festival has been held during Noruz holidays (Iranian New Year) in in Genaveh . One goal is to promote environmental art and education. Participants at the Festival made works using beach sand and rocks. More

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Work by Ahmadianfar

Work by Nourabadi

During the festival I made presented my recent cylinder seal swhich show birds, fish and futus. I printed these cylinder seals along the beach.

During the fistival we organized a workshop and realized a collection of goddess. In this collaborative project, we use nanotechnology and made sand sculptors more solid.

According to many scientists, Nanotechnology is the science and technology of very small things. It is an exciting area of science and engineering that occurs at the atomic and molecular level. There are many different views of precisely what is included in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is being applied to a wide variety of fields, including electronics, optics, information technology, materials, homeland security, and medicine. However here we use this new science in the field of art . We were very exited to see combination of old myths, belief and new science.

ANAHITA or (NAHID) is the name of goddess of fertility. In ancient Persia it was believed that She is the source of all waters, upon the earth, fertility, purifying, the seed of all males. During the Islamic period Sufis mostly showed interest in the female beloved. In Sufi poetry, which is a highly technical language of love, woman is a symbol of Divine realities. The beauty of the beautiful face is a mirror in which we can observe the beauty of the Divine. However in recent decades feminism is an important issue. The reflection of this global movement can be seen in contemporary art.

I hide these goddess is some location related to the belief on goddess of fertility. One of the location was the temple of Anahita (Goddess of Water) in Bishapour.

I hide some goddess in Bishpour cave.

A historic site from Achamenide time (550 BC) known as Grave of Girl

I also hided a goddess near this grave

A model of Girl Grave made by local people

This is a natural rock near this historic site. Local people believe that it shows a goddess. They also believe that water flow from her navel. She is source of water and life. I was very excited to discover these.

Becouse I represented this belief in my previous works.

I cut this advertise of festival and dedicated to artist as a memory of festival.

Earth Paintings: Works by Ahmad Nadalian - Hormoz Island March 2009

In the late of march 2009 when we fished festival in Genaveh I traveled to Hormoz Island. Most of my recent art works created at Hormoz Island were paintings with organic colored earth. More

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I chose some parts of these fragmented boats and use them as panel for my earth painting project.

I printed my cylinder seal on dark sand.

I met Kaniz and encourage her to paint more earth paintings. I hope one day she stop using uses live fish , snail, slug, cochlea and shell to make handcraft and necklaces.

Kaniz asked me to works with her daughters. We used organic colored earth and produced a number of painting behind glass.

I borrowed again some more hair from a goat and made organic brushes

In two weeks time I produced many artworks.

Good news: in Hormoz I bought a house. In a few month times I will launch Persian Gulf residential art center for Environmental artists.

In the Search of Lost Paradise

Ahmad Nadalian

Interview by Elahe Zomorodi

Department of Philosophy, University of Perugia- Cosmopolis: Rivista Semestrale di cultura (1. 2008) ISSN: 1828-6771

How did you get involved in environmental art?

My ancestors were nomads and lived in nature. When I was a child, in summer time I lived with my grandfather in unspoiled countryside near Damawand Mountain, and close to a village named Polour. But my father worked in the city, and during winter I lived with my family in Tehran and studied at school. More

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A Fabulous Mythological Bird: 20th Environmental Art Festival in Iran - Persian Gulf- Hormoz : (February 2009)

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Report by Ahmad Nadalian

In the middle of January 2009 I traveled to Hormoz Island. In addition to my ‘bicycle of peace’, I realized several new environmental art projects. In early February 2009 many environmental artists traveled to Hormoz Island to hold the 20^th Environmental Art Festival in Iran, focused on the theme of "The Human and The Environment". Most of my environmental art works created at Hormoz Island were paintings with organic colored earth. More

I searched for more colors

I always love to depict the archetypal story

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Archetypal story: Earth painting

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I was determined to recycle these glasses

Now we can recycle these glasses and use them for paintings

Transforming ugliness into beauty

For dark colors I mixed some organic materials

I used my organic brush, ink and colored earth to produce these painting behind glass (stained glass?)

I suggest that this be the handicraft of this island

Colored earth pigments and deer are two things that tourists know of at Hormoz Island

A gift from me to people and from people to tourists

I decided to teach this type of painting to people

I taught them how to prepare the colors

For this method of painting they can use a pattern

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A gift of Persian Gulf from me to people and from people to tourists

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One of the women named Kaniz usually uses live snail, slug, cochlea and shell to make necklaces and other handcraft. This is a job of many jobless families in the Island

I told her that catching these creatures from the sea in large scale may result in long-term environmental crises

Kaniz and her daughter begin to paint. They start with the name of God.

One night we arrange a sale for their works.

The environmental artist bought works from them

As a result, she produces more works

I teach one of the local girls to use organic earth and brush to paint on hands

This is an alternative for Hana. They can paint on the hand and face of tourists and earn money

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A gift of Persian Gulf from me to people and from people to tourists

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One day the people of Hormoz invited me to a holy place where they had a ritual ceremony. They wanted to pray for rain. In the holy place I learned that many years ago this location had a flat stone on which feet traces was carved. The people believed these feet traces belonged to a holy person. Many years ago after the Islamic revolution, some people ignored this belief and dropped the stone into the sea. In 1982 a storm in the sea killed 500 people in the Persian Gulf. People in Hormoz believe that this storm was the consequence of dropping stone with carved feet into the sea. For me that carving was an art work, too. I search for a flat stone and reproduce the stone with feet traces and dedicate it to the people.

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A ritual for rain & feet traces

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A Fabulous Mythological Bird

The people in Hormoz wished to paint a mythological bird named "Simorgh". This bird has a long history in Persian mythology and mystical literature. I assisted them to realize this bird.

The location for this large painting is near the rock named "Sang Morghan", Stone of Birds.

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The bird in the sky witnessed this mythical and mystical king of birds

Fourteen girls painted this large fabulous bird

One day seven girls singed song

Red earth surrounded the whole of my soul

I depicted snakes on the face of a girl named Mithra

Archetypal story, seduce of Mother god

The process of a ritual wash

Red earth surrounded my soul

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I also recycled waste material in nature and invented some new cylinder seals and printed them on the sand.

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Transformation of ugliness to beauty

http://www.wwwebart.com/riverart/sandprints/persian_gulf/index.htm

Beside these, I also printed my new traditional cylinder seal.

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Transformation of ugliness to beauty

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Dream of Peace in the Persian Gulf: Bicycle Art & Recycle Art

Print on Sand in Coast by a Bicycle فارسی

Works by Ahmad Nadalian

http://www.wwwebart.com/riverart/sandprints/bicycle/index.htm

As an environmental artist I often use bicycle which is a clean transportation. In the middle of January 2009 I traveled to Hormoz Island. I used my bicycle and realized my new environmental art project. The tire of the bicycle bears an imprint of the phrase "Dream of Peace in the Persian Gulf" and anybody who rides the bicycle will cause the phrase to be engraved in the sands.

I was determined to ride a distance over 1400km on the sand. The distance symbolically is equal to the length of the Persian Gulf coast from Khorramshahr to Bandar Abbas.

I made use of an old tire and prepared the letters in English first and later attached them on another old tire of the bike.

I believes that by writing the phrase in English, it will receive wider attention in the media and will more effectively carry the message of the Iranian nation to the world.

I aim to promote culture of peace and preserve the geographical, political and cultural boundaries of my country Iran, and I believe art is the best means to help fight against distortion of the name 'Persian Gulf'.

In early February 2009 many environmental artist traveled to Hormoz Island and we hold the 20^th environmental art festival in Iran on the theme of "Human and Environment".

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