Kianoosh gerami biography
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Kianoosh Gerami
We all need
to wake up a little
The three hands – each four metres high – are covered with blue dolly rope: synthetic plastic threads that are attached to fishing nets to protect them when they are dragged along the seabed. Every year, some 65,000 kilos of it ends up in the coastal waters of Belgium and the Netherlands. Some of it washes up on the beaches. Volunteers collect it and deliver large amounts of it to Zierikzee based artist Kianoosh Gerami.
Using this dolly rope, which becomes a kind of fluff (pluis in Dutch) when dragged along the seabed, he has made an installation that issues a warning: Look at what we are doing to the sea. All that plastic; next time you eat a mussel or a fish, it will likely contain plastic granules, so these will end up inside of us – humans. This is not good, we have to do something about it!
Kianoosh Gerami’s hands were previously on display at the Dikke Toren in Zierikzee in 2021. Now ‘Project Pluis’ is on display at the square Abdijplein in the context of Façade in Middelburg. For the sculpture exhibition, the installation has been extended with an alarm bell covered with dolly rope. It lies on the stones and cannot really ring. But the artist is sure that everyone will hear it
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Kianoosh Gerami
Born in Cairo (Egypt) March 21, 1981
Nationality: Iranian / Netherlands
Resident in Zierikzee, the Netherlands
1995-1999 Graduated in painting from ”The Fine Art Academy in Tehran”
2000-2004 Bachelor painting, ”Azad Art university of Tehran”
2004-2006 ’Master of art’ in illustration, ”Azad Art University of Tehran”
2005-2007 Scholarship for a painting study at the ’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma’, Italy
Kianoosh Gerami is an Iranian-Dutch artist. He was born in Egypt in the city of Cairo and grew up in the capital city of Iran in Tehran. After his primary and secondary education. Kianoosh went to Tehran Art Academy. He studied painting and illustration. It soon turned out that he was a versatile talent with a great hand for drawing. In 1998 he graduated from the Art Academy. In 2004, after a bachelor, he obtained a master in Art and Illustration and graduated from the ”Art and Architecture Azad University” in Tehran.
In 2005 he received a scholarship from ”Academia di Belle Arti” in Rome and moved to Rome to study and work there. It was a fantastic opportunity for him to develop further in his arts.
In 2007 he moved to Rotterdam in the Netherlands to cont