Email:saman_kalantari@libero.it

Region:Europe

Technique:Casting, Kiln work, Other

Occupation:Artist

Discipline:Fine art, Installation, Sculptural

Areas of Interest:Competitions, Conferences, Exhibition, Workshops

Country:Italy

Saman Kalantari

Saman Kalantari was born in Shiraz in Iran in 21st of September 1972.​ ​ He got his B.A. in foreign language from Azad university in 1994.​ Saman started working as a ceramic artist since 1992 and has participated in several exhibitions​ both single and group shows.He left his country in 2004 and since then has been living in Italy. In 2005 he began a two-year course at Vetroricerca Glas & Modern in Bolzano and discovered​ a new medium : “Glass” which was the right material to describe his social experiences of​ life both in Iran and in Europe. In 2007 he got his diploma. He won the Bullseye "newcomer award from E -merge 2008 in the United States. His works are​ published in Glasshouse,an international magazine for studioglass(glashaus 3/2009) and Neues Glas / New Glass,​ international journal focusing on studio glass No. 3/2011.​ www.samankalantari.com

I have been trying to push the glass to its limits and making new experiments with it since I have started working with this medium.I think of wastes as an artistic material,the presence of something residual and processes of things that happened or have been.I recycle paper to make hand made paper and then I produce hand-made glass paper which I called it “Flexible glass sheet”which is simply paper,covered by glass frits and powder. I fold my one dimensional flexible glass sheet into three dimensional forms.Ppaer which is an organic material burns (death) and from its ashes my glass forms born The use of sand as molding material is also symbolically refers to the cycle of life and re-creation, re-generation and re generation. I try to express what different materials have in common or in contrast with each other and how they react when they are back to their origin. I use glass to explain the consistency, Fragility, mortality, immortality and subtleness of human being, life and the nature.

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