In The Lap Of The Fate

The work seems to refer to the disturbing muses out of De Chirico’s atelier or the metaphysical memory of figuration that can be traced back to ancient Persian monumentality. The artist, in fact, does ignore this fact in his splendid Iran the ethnic composition has mixed the various peoples who, on several occasions, have invaded and transplanted into the country over the centuries.

The above-mentioned actor is also a wiseman; the listener is the one to whom the denunciation and the hope for a better life are transmitted.

The wiseman, as Mehrdad Khataei seems to say, is very reminiscent of the traveller Dante Alighieri.

In The Lap Of The Faith (title of the work by Mehrdad Khataei) he presents a black manner that narrates the sad destiny of man: the inherited ‘fortune’ and the ‘condemnation’ of life.

The carving and the etching, imprinted on the copper plate, translate, then, a sort of theatrical script, object of human and spiritual revelations; the latter are rendered by lights that pierce the darkness of the cosmos, making hope shine in a healthy society and, ultimately, in a better world. (Filomena Tavares)