Hossein Borojeni
The Canonisation of Beauty Through Drawing. When did you first get into drawing? I have always drawn, probably like every kid. The only difference: both my parents are artists, so I was quite free, even encouraged to draw. They didn’t bind me when I started to draw on the walls but they repainted the whole apartment a few years later because all the walls were drawn up to 90cm. Later when I was 11, I began to study more seriously the drawing by copying the Renaissance masters and trying to learn anatomy bases... because I saw a drawing of Picasso when he was a kid, and he was much better than me ! Why did you choose to make fashion part of your inspiration? I think the todays fashion aesthetics are in a way the heir to the antique art and its canonisation of the beauty; Kate Moss is the new Venus of Milo. The idealised human body was the main inspiration of 88
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the Greek antique art and later the Italian Renaissance. Abandoned by the official art today, fashion has made the body its main concern and controversies. What is your particular working day as a creative? A particular working evening would be more appropriate as I am not an early bird. I begin everyday by losing a lot of time reading my emails and other uninteresting endless staffs. Then when it’s too late I only begin the creative work. More seriously, I take often more time to analyse and do researches for finding inspirations than the time I need to execute it. What tools do you use when creating your images? I use mostly ink and watercolour but also digital tools like Ipad pen and of course Photoshop. Who are what has influenced you over the years as an artist?
