Ghass
Born on March 21st 1964 in Shiraz, Iran, Ghass Rouzkhosh started to paint at the tender age of 8. In 1979 when he was just 15 years old, the Islamic revolution took place and the Iran-Iraq conflict wasn't far behind.
Having lived 8 years of war, two of which he spent fighting on the front-line, his vision of the world was to change forever. The cruel and indelible images which were imprinted on his mind now play an important role in his art.
He uses three colours only; red which is inspired from the skies following a bombing, black which brings back memories of the charred remains of trees, and white which remains the colour of peace and innocence.
In 1984 Ghass was accepted to the School of Fine Arts in Shiraz which he would later graduate from in 1989 to move to france. In 1991 he was following live model drawing lessons at the School of Fine Arts of Paris and there he started his search for imaginary themes and the symbolic dimension of shapes.
Ghass currently lives and works in Paris, France.
