“Poushosh” Collages are totally and fundamentally conceptual. For their creation is based on mere idea and concept. And technique and material are the secondary elements in them not the main. Some of the chosen material such as extracts from fashion journals would be ruined or forgotten if they weren’t used in these collections. But this collage revived them, reanimated them with a new life and function. Above all they have helped the artist and the artist has helped them.
“Poushosh” Collages are totally and fundamentally conceptual. For their creation is based on mere idea and concept. And technique and material are the secondary elements in them not the main. Some of the chosen material such as extracts from fashion journals would be ruined or forgotten if they weren’t used in these collections. But this collage revived them, reanimated them with a new life and function. Above all they have helped the artist and the artist has helped them.
bio.
Farshido Larimian (Babol, Iran, 1983) is an artist based in vienna with a background in chemical and petroleum engineering. Larimian completed his Diploma-studies of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the supervision of Prof. Gunter Damisch and Veronika Dirnhofer, and won the Academy’s Würdigung’s Prize for his master thesis.
Larimian’s works have been exhibited at V.O Curations London (UK) in Crossing , Yassi Foundation(IR) in Flora Iranica in 2022, at The Lodge gallery Los Angeles (USA) in My very favorite things, at the Jossa by Alserkal Dubai(UAE) in Invictus, Theater am Spittelberg(AT) in Alles Hängt in der Luft in 2021; at the Fronfeste Museum(AT) in regional exhibition Zivilcourage in 2017, in regional exhibition Salzburg(AT) at Von hier und dort in 2016, at the Palais Dorotheum(AT) in Charity auction, at Museum of Modern Art(RUS) within the third International Biennial of Young Art in Moscow, in 2012, at the Lower Austria Documentation Centre for Modern Art; St. Pölten(AT), in 2012, in Wem die Stunde schlägt, at Carbon12 Dubai(UAE), in Devision by Zero, and at Salsali Private Museum Dubai(UAE), in SHOW OFF! in 2011.
The techniques he uses range from collage to painting, from assemblage to installation, often with found objects. His works are present in several museum collections: from Museum of Contemporary art in Krakow(POL), to SPM Museum Dubai(UAE), from Fronfeste Museum (AT), Liesenfeld/Jordan(Kunstalm) collection (AT), to Kupferstichkabinett, The Graphic Collection of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna(AT).
In 2020 he recieved a working stipend from Stadt Wien Kultur - MA 7, and in 2023 was nominated for the STRABAG Art-Award International.
A part of Master Thesis presentation & defence: