Hamid Aalinezhad: Die Augen waschen. Die Sicht erneuern. Spuren im Holz.

In the organizer's words:

"With my art, I not only want to create aesthetic experiences, but also encourage people to think - about our relationship to nature, to ourselves and to each other. And I want to emphasize how important it is to protect our environment and treat it more consciously."

Hamid Aalinezhad does not create art for art's sake alone: A philosophy speaks from his works: the philosophy of freedom, of togetherness, of mindfulness towards all fellow human beings and, last but not least, towards nature.

Hamid Aalinezhad studied Philosophy of Education and Persian Literature at the University of Shiraz, the city where he was born and grew up in 1969. He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Shiraz until he had to flee Iran. He now lives in Emsdetten and works as an integration assistant for refugees in the central accommodation facility (ZUE) in Ibbenbüren.

He has been involved with art since his school days and has also completed training in this field.

"Art has an international language," he says, "color is one of the most important elements in life."

Hamid Aalinezhad's paintings almost revel in color, especially when they show flowers. For the Iranian, flowers are "symbols of beauty, vitality and the power of nature".

"Humans have a deep, primal connection to nature. This relationship is a central source of inspiration for my art." Hamid Aalinezhad therefore not only works on paper and canvas, but often on a material that offers him a special way of " expressing the connection with the earth and the natural world in an honest, tangible way " - wood.

He has created impressive portraits on it that captivate viewers with their intensity. The faces do not appear to have been merely applied with paint; they seem to be connected to the material, as if the artist had peeled them out of the wood.

For Hamid Aalinezhad, "human faces and figures aremirrors of our inner world, our emotions and our identity".

The half-nude of a dark-skinned woman with a colorful scarf folded into a turban on her head is particularly important to him. In an interview with Dr. Georgios Tsakalidis from the Integration Council of the City of Münster

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9v5cuVDxU), he explains: "I called this picture 'protest'. The women in Iran have no freedom. They have to do something they don't want to do. They have to wear headscarves, but they don't want to. ... In Iran, people are not allowed to paint what they want. There is no freedom for colors in Iran."

Hamid Aalinezhad makes use of the freedom he is given here. He does not allow himself to be restricted to any style, subject or form of expression. Diversity is his credo. His portraits include, for example, a likeness of Alfred Hitchcock.

He is currently working on colorful ceramic works that he would like to present in his own exhibition at some point. "I don't stay in one particular area," says Hamid Aalinezhad in the above interview, adding with mischievous self-irony: "Maybe there's a bit of a mess in my head."

Exhibition at F24 from July 5 to September 5, 2025
Vernissage: Sunday, July 20, 2025 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm