Iranian artist builds skyscrapers on carpets

Persian carpets are suitable not only to hang them on the walls, and then arrange fashionable photo shoots. Iranian artist Babak Golkar , working today in Vancouver, decided to take a closer look at them and put their patterns the basis of his carpet-architectural installations.

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We all remember the faded patterns of Persian carpets. But, whatever one may say, they are no more than two -dimensional. Babak decided to fix this annoying oversight a little and try to make them three -dimensional.

From slender patterns, volumes of different heights have increased, which together form models of skyscrapers. The artist creates skyscrapers made of wood, which then stains white.

The installations created by him raise issues of the ratio of two -dimensional and three -dimensional, architecture and art, and also affects the complex and ambiguous theme of tension between the East and the West, transmit "Archionovo.ru" .

The biggest work on this carpet-architectural theme was created by him last year in the Vancouver Charles H. Scott Gallery, Theatlanticcites.com reports. On the installation called Grounds for Standing and Understanding, a whole city of skyscrapers was created on a huge carpet.