Asia/Qatar
69
Iran
12-February-2024
Calligraphy
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Mixed Media
Professor Dr. Amir H. Zekrgoo is a distinguished academic and accomplished multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, calligraphy, photography, and mixed media. For over forty years, his artistic practice has explored the elemental forces of nature, with water emerging as the defining theme of his visual language.
His long-term project, The Four Elements of Life, initiated in the late 1970s, led him to develop a profound engagement with water as both subject and metaphor. Fluid, reflective, and constantly transforming, water mirrors his intuitive approach to art-making. Zekrgoo often works on multiple compositions simultaneously, allowing each piece to evolve organically through gesture, movement, and layered color.
Extensive travels along the historic Silk Roads significantly shaped his aesthetic vocabulary. Encounters with temple ponds across Asia inspired his enduring fascination with koi fish—forms whose harmonious gliding can instantly shift into vibrant, chromatic turbulence. Their movement recalls the elegance of Persian and Islamic calligraphy while engaging with the expressive freedom of abstraction.
As a scholar of Islamic and Asian sacred arts, Professor Zekrgoo brings intellectual depth to his artistic practice. His academic research in symbolism, manuscript traditions, and comparative religious art informs his work without limiting its immediacy or visual impact.
His paintings and mixed media works balance serenity and dynamism, structure and spontaneity. They offer collectors works that are both aesthetically compelling and philosophically resonant.
