Sevil Amini (b.Teheran, Iran) holds a M.F.A. from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan where she graduated in 2013 from the Painting Department. She earned her first B.A. in graphic design in 2003 from Azad Univercity of Art and Architecture in Teheran and her second B.A. in 2009 from Florence Academy of Fine Arts.
She works with different mediums including drawing, painting, video art, installation and photography. Sevil Amini‘s artistic research is influenced by two heterogeneous cultures and worldviews. The one of her origin, which is the East, and the other, which is the philosophy and history of Western art.
During her studies in Italy, she dealt with the problem of emptiness in the image as well as with the historical and philosophical tendencies that lead artists to monochrome paintings, performances and immaterial art. This gave rise to the subject of her pictorial practice, in which she sought to realise her own narrative style. A style that combines the emptiness of Western monochrome imagery with the detailed richness of Persian miniatures.
Emptiness reveals itself as the presence of absence, loss in relation to the dimension of totality, moments of crisis, a gap in the dynamics of the flow of meaning.
Education
MFA, 2013, Visual Art, ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRERA. MILAN. ITALY
BA, 2009, Painting, ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI Firenze. FLORENCE. ITALY
BA, 2003, Graphic Design, ART AND ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN. IRAN
Awards
2021. Hamburger Zukunftsstipendium zur Umsetzung des Zickzack-Projekt.
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2021. Imagine You&Me. Raum linksrechts, Hamburg Germany
2021. "Iranian women artists, Eclipsed Body, Harmful Space",
carte blanche of the Oodaaq Festival 2021, artistic curator Parya Vatankhah, Rennes, France
2019. Speicher Das. Kulturbotschaft, Hamburg Germany
2019. Sargassomeer. Galerie Frappant, Hamburg Germany
2019. Soirée, The Light of Thought: art is the destiny of design.
An exhibition promoted by Fratelli Guzzini at Fortezza da Basso in Florence Italy
2019. gem-Einsam. Xpon-art Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2017. Toi tu dansais tout le temps. (Solo) , Milan, Italy
2016. Caravaggio Contemporanea EC0.4. Caravaggio, Italy
2016. C&F Cazzi e Fighe . Spazio L'altalena. Milan, Italy
2016. Imprint. Studi Festival. Milan,Italy
2016. Art & Industrial biennieal Labin. Curated by Lucrezzia de Domizio Durini. Istria , Croatia
2015. les café littéraire de Paris a Milan. Institut Français de Milan. Milan, Italy
2015. Kafka era praga e Praga era kafka. Scoglio di Quarto Gallery. Milan, Italy
2015. ‘Goethes Farbenlehre’. Institut Fracais de Mainz, Germany
2013. ‘Linguaggi del corpo’. 77 Art Gallery. Milan, Italy
2012. Group Exhibition. Maimeri foundation. Milan, Italy
2011. ‘Trasparenza e spazialità’. (Solo), Turin, Italy
2009. ‘atemporalità e storia dell’immagine’.Galleria Ariele. Turin, Italy
2009. ‘Portraits’. Galleria RossoCinabro. Rome, Italy
2007. Tre Riflessi: 10 giorni di arte iraniana. Vie Nuove association. Florence, Italy
2007. Private Flat. Florence, Italy
2005. Tassvir Sal Festival. Khaneh Honarmandan Gallery. Theran, Iran
Events
2020. Partrecipation as Performer in the project of Anta Helena Recke, Die Kränkungen der Menschheit. Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2018. Transcorner Walk. Prformance. Curated by Emilie Girardin, Hamburg. Germany
2015. Participation in the 5th Free International Forum curated by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini. Palazzo Durini.
Bolognano, Italy