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June Issue 2006
Flood Gallery in Asheville, NC, Features Works by H.K. Zamani
Asheville, NC's newest contemporary art space,
Flood Gallery, presents a show entitled, Star Spangled Banner,
by Los Angeles artist H.K. Zamani (also known as Habib Kheradyar).
Zamani's show
will be up between June 10 and July 12, 2006.
Born in Iran, Zamani moved to the United States at the age of thirteen. While his ethnicity and country of origin have informed his work, Habib is "more American than anything else." Not only is he American, but also his artwork shows him to be quite a Californian. His wall pieces place him securely in the California space and light art tradition of Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, and the broader tradition of California minimalism. For his show at Flood, Zamani will create an installation entitled Star Spangled Banner that shows a link to our own area.
In 1948 Buckminster Fuller developed his geodesic domes at Black Mountain College. Habib is interested in Fuller's use of the geodesic dome in relationship to the concept of "ephemeralization." Zamani's use of the dome plays on both the transparency of various spaces and with the significant barriers seemingly ephemeral materials can present to experience. In Zamani's installation the dome image will be combined with music that references nationalism. Questions of nationality, globalism and localized identities will be investigated.
Importantly, this will be Habib's first show under the newly reappropriated name of Zamani (Habib's father created the name "Kheradyar," the family name was Zamani). The name change from Habib Kheradyar to H.K. Zamani is another act that shows how the ephemeral and the substantial aspects of space (here the space of identity) are inextricably combined.
The owner of the highly acclaimed gallery space POST (1995-2006), Zamani has shown his artwork internationally. The City of Los Angeles awarded him a C.O.L.A. grant in 2004 and he was awarded a California Foundation Grant in 2005.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/255-0066 or e-mail at (info@floodgallery.org).
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