This striking contemporary artwork features a surreal, dreamlike landscape dominated by vibrant hues of yellow, purple, and brown. The composition centers on a towering rock formation with an intriguing, angular structure at its summit. The background is filled with wispy, cloud-like shapes that add to the sense of otherworldliness. The artist's use of bold brushstrokes and a distinctive palette suggest an expressionistic style, creating a sense of mysticism and wonder. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to transport the viewer to a fantastical, imagined realm beyond the ordinary. ...
Amir H. Fallah’s graphic, exuberant figurative paintings reflect on the artist’s notion of identity, his personal Iranian-American heritage and childhood memories, and generational experiences that arise from migration, displacement, trauma and assimilation. Traces of the vocabulary and touchstones of classical Western portraiture can be found in the compositions of his paintings, which are rich with imagery and allegory. Often, Fallah’s figures hold modern objects of communication or visualisation, such as telephones and cameras, which are pertinent in their anachnronisity within the worlds Fallah creates. While the artist does not include the facial likeness of his figures, their personhood, ancestry and cultural histories are represented through these scattered, disorientated objects, and the ornate lexicon of symbols that surround them. ...
Founded in 2005, The Third Line is a Dubai-based gallery that represents contemporary artists locally, regionally, and internationally. A pioneering platform for established talent and emerging voices from the region and its diaspora, The Third Line has built a dynamic program that explores the diversity of practice in the region. Represented artists include: Abbas Akhavan, Ala Ebtekar, Amir H. Fallah, Farah Al Qasimi, Farhad Moshiri, Fouad Elkoury, Hassan Hajjaj, Hayv Kahraman, Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Jordan Nassar, Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gargash, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Nima Nabavi, Pouran Jinchi, Rana Begum, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sara Naim, Sherin Guirguis, Shirin Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, Sophia Al-Maria, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, yasiin bey, Youssef Nabil and Zineb Sedira. ...
