About Amin Mansouri’s Art
“The art of Amin Mansouri is monstrously beautiful, and almost impossible to describe.”
Tony Barnstone- Pratik magazine
I am Amin Mansouri, an artist from Isfahan, Iran.
For more than twenty years, I have been drawing, painting, writing, teaching, and searching. Not for perfection, but for the things that remain incomplete, fragile, and vulnerable.
I have come to believe that many moments of vulnerability are far more beautiful than moments of perfection. Perhaps because human beings are vulnerable, angels are asked to bow before them. Our flaws are not weaknesses. Our flaws are our capital. It is our imperfections that fill the distance between good and great.
The figures that appear in my paintings are not exactly human. They may be emotions that have taken shape. They often seem exposed, wounded, awkward, or strangely tender. They are vulnerable enough to be loved and close enough to reality to feel familiar.
“Deviant artist Amin Mansouri is fond of little-boned hands, expressive oversized feet, and delicate figures that appear almost naked and vulnerable. This strange, erotic, pleasurable poetic nightmare has a thousand eyes.”— Dorianne Laux
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My work moves between beauty and grotesque, attraction and discomfort, poetry and drawing. I am interested in the places where language begins to fail and images take over. The places where loneliness, desire, fear, love, memory, and dreams become visible.
The figures in my paintings do not have hope. In the world we have built, hope does not always seem reasonable. I prefer to be rationally mad. To look directly at darkness and still continue creating.
Again and again, my work returns to the same territory: the unconscious mind, hidden emotions, forgotten memories, and the strange landscapes that exist beneath language. The place where our deepest feelings are formed. A place somewhere in the shadows of the mind.
Through paintings, books, photographs, poems, and visual narratives, I try to create worlds that invite viewers to enter that territory—worlds that are imperfect, vulnerable, unsettling, and deeply human.
Amin Mansouri’s artwork is gorgeous, reminiscent of both Dave McKean and Ralph Steadman, and worth the price of admission on its own. .” — David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, creators, screenwriters, and executive producers of the HBO series, Game of Thrones-Pulp Sonnets