Biography

My name is Teymor Zarré. Born and raised in Shiraz, Iran, I was trained at an early age as an artist. Already at the age of seven I began my studies with a master artist. He was a painter of miniatures and a glass artist. We would meet poets and other artists, read poems and discuss art and life. I was given a thorough training in the arts of mirror-glass and painting. I am one of the few people who practise this relatively unknown art form, aine kar’, which involves putting together small pieces of mirror-glass in various geometric forms and shapes. This is work which makes heavy demands on oneÕs patience, fitting together exactly the cut pieces of mirror-glass in various sizes, shapes and colours, like a puzzle. Then shaping figures using a glass cutter. After my ten-year schooling I began to work with decorations in glass and paintings. This was mainly walls and ceilings in mausolea, palaces and other public buildings. In 1981 I moved to Dubai, The United Arab Emirate. There I continued working with palace interior decoration. Then I came to Uppsala, Sweden. Here I have worked as an artist concentrating on both glass art, oil painting, computer art, installations and public/private commissions.

As an artist, I work with various materials and forms of expression but starting out from a basic idea which is recurrent irrespective of the form. This is an experimental examination of the life we live. The material is usually subordinate to the idea in my work, without thereby underrating its treatment or execution since the material can in itself stand for both the idea and the artistic creation. Art is far too exciting to be limited to one kind of material. The material becomes a channel or a language through which I can communicate with my surroundings without using words, say things which words cannot concretize.