Event details
The show comprises ink-drawn works on paper, all created in the past two years.
While training as an architect and industrial designer, Omid Majidinejad became interested in the notion of Utopia and the perennial search for the perfect city. Growing up in Isfahan, he was inspired by the city’s central square, the illustrious Naqhsh-e Jahan – a vast public-private complex that covers nearly a million square feet and includes a palace, two mosques and a bazaar. He saw this square and its constant flux of people as a microcosmic city in itself, and realized that manifestations of Utopia can and do exist, albeit in a decidedly imperfect state – an idea that became central in his creation of the works on view in this show. In subsequent travels around the western world, Majidinejad encountered many more architectural iterations of the utopian ideal, both in squares such as St. Peter’s, and in public arenas like the Colosseum, and began to further question the concept of structures as expressions of ideas and ideologies.
Artists
- Omid Majidinejad