![]() His works have been widely exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the 52nd Venice Biennale and are featured in important private and public collections across borders. Born in Iran in 1956, he now lives and works in New York. ga taiy to deai aij o komore te ima shit ta kore a saidai kyori de haruka afureru kimochi. ![]() hoshi tachi ni kakoma re te hitori boc chino sora yoru anata to mata aeru y ni kimi no hikari o terashi tsuzukeru yakus. Kami is one of the most sought-after artists in today’s contemporary Iranian art scene. Album ( Page Link ) Song ( Page Link )( Partial Lyrics ) 1 8.Tsuki No Koibumi2 ochinai kotoba kimi no hikari ga mottomo akaruku kagayai ta hoshi tachi ni kakoma re te hi. The work is an elegant and hypnotising composition allowing the viewer to feel harmony and serenity. Rich in its abstraction, the present work recalls the colours of infinity, as if to allude to a mystical void in which the artist reaches perfection. The end result of his repetitive process is a silent, almost meditative, work of art that evokes the cyclical nature of the ritual daily prayers through concentrically revolving rows of paper, as if each of the cut-out elements held within themselves a prayer. ![]() Kami has indeed been highly influenced by the thirteenth-century Persian Poet Rumi and the present composition suggests his philosophical and spiritual inspirations as well as his openness to the world and to different mystical trends. The artist glues each of these carefully and gracefully onto the surface of the canvas in spiraling patterns, thus reminiscing both the Islamic domes and the sama, the ritual dance of the whirling dervishes who aim at reaching to God through the act of spinning. Kami.Here, the upper estimate of GBP 80,000 was slightly exceeded - the artwork found a new owner for GBP 91,250 ( 105,213). Kami’s canvas Blue Dome II is delicately ornamented with fat brick shaped cut-outs in dense sky blue. In October 2010 Sothebys in London held the auction Contemporary Art / Arab & Iranian, which included the work Blue Dome Ii by Y. His installations soon led the way to his acclaimed body of work on canvas, Endless Prayers, the series of which the present work is a fine example. Kami, aspired to recreate the feeling of wholeness echoed in the Sufi belief by disposing bricks, sometimes stamped with Farsi script, in the shape of ever-widening circles laying on the ground.
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