These beautiful collages by
Ashkan Honarvar remind me a lot of Wangechi Mutu's, but I think I may like these even better. His
website is organized very nicely into distinct bodies of work that are definitely worth checking out. Some are a bit, ahem, "sexier" than others (yes, I can be a bit of a prude) but they're all quite striking and lovely. I particularly enjoy how he uses layering techniques to manipulate the human flesh and create new images that are gorgeously grotesque.
"The saying goes that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. It occurs in
places you least expect. Revealing its art in the human body, but also cruelly absent in the
presence of deformations and scars, Ashkan Honarvar depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by
accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The body, torn by acts of war, exploited by the sex industry or used
as a tool for seeking identity, is the focal point of his work. This constitutes a search for a universal
representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an
intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation." (from his website)
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