The newspapers of the time of revolution have an undeniable attraction. Such that their reprints can always at sale (and is being bought) from Ettela’at publication. They are particularly intriguing as newspapers, their texts are not the most important thing about them. They are strange from every aspect: for instance how a governmental newspaper would write against the regime. Their graphic design is shocking: similar to children’s painting, what was more important was shown larger. And they were full of childish things…
Naturally, such graphic has not remained unnoticed by contemporary artists: Jhinoos Taghizadeh and Shahab Fotouhi have make clever use of it, each adding images or patterns to it.
Nima Esmailpour takes the same bold graphic design and puts ‘out-of-date’ newspapers on the wall and you look at them: he takes the newspapers you should hold in your hands from your hands and adds distortion to your gaze. Maybe this way you look at them with the curiosity you gaze at a bathroom’s window…