Zende is so unique for his style, mostly based on his Persian origins, which because intensely present in his work of art, shows his feelings of missing his country, being an exiled artist. His Painting is an open window on his life. The history of Persia, and its being invaded and destroyed, every aspects of its fortunes and misfortunes appear in Zende’s pieces, letting him go back to his roots, live a virtual rebirth, make a never lasting pilgrimage, and live an endless cycle of flying away and returning to the nest.

The way Zende uses calligraphy is to emphasize the shapes and the lines.

Although it may seem to the neophyte that his writing has a meaning, it is a senseless scripture, a physical accomplishment and exercise of writing, free from the strict laws of Persian calligraphy.


The words have no significance and are pure symbols; they are like an open gate for the watcher towards new horizons, the peaceful land of dreams.

Here is the key to understand Zende’s work of art: the mystification.
Mysterious is his search of the answer while playing with words.
Mysterious is his genius to change every day life objects into jewels.
Mysterious is his search to find what is left behind as time goes by, like a running river.

The forms and the art of modelling are Zende’s goal.

He cuts pieces, sticks them together, subtly mixes layers over layers, calmly and without warning, takes the watcher away on a journey full of colours and sensations, creates his own universe...

Zende the poet, the lover of poems, finds in classical Persian literature or within his own writings verses he loves and melts them in his compositions, as the ancient Chinese painters did.

 
Claude-Henri Bartoli,
Jean-Luc Perez

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