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Moshiri, der in seinen Arbeiten Kalligrafie, traditionelles Kunsthandwerk, Kitsch und Pop Art miteinander verbindet, ist, wie er erklärt, stark vom Alltagsleben beeinflusst - von "den Einkauszentren, Basaren, dem Dekorativen und Ornamentalen und der Hochzeitskultur im Iran". Eine opulente "Traumhochzeit" nach westlichem Vorbild gehört zu den großen Sehnsüchten vieler junger Frauen der iranischen Mittelschickt.
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Moshiri combines calligraphy, traditional craftwork, kitsch and Pop Art in his works. He is greatly influenced by everyday life, as he explains - by "the mall, the bazaar, the decorative and ornamental, and wedding culture in Iran". An opulent, "dream wedding" based on the western model is one of the great desires of many young, middle-class Iranian women. One series by Aliabadi, which she did not realise in the form of photographs but as drawings, centres on this wedding culture. Eye Love You (2009) shows designs for the opulent eye make-up with which brides are beautified on their big day. Three make-up designs can be seen on each sheet of paper, the size of a school exercise book. In their naivety they are reminiscent of drawings produced by girls, according to Aliabadi, "while dreaming in a boring class at school". The eyes of the brides, embellished with candy-coloured eye-shadows, glitter, paste gems and motifs such as flowers, swans or butterflies seem completely over the top, but they are exact reproductions of current trends in wedding make-up. Here, traditional Iranian motifs are cheerfully combined with the kind of airbrush-aesthetics familiar to us from American automobile bodywork.
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