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PRIVATE ART COLLECTION OF PROF. DR. PHIL. DAVOOD ROOSTAEI 1959 - 2023
THE FOUNDER OF CRYPTOREALISM
PRIVATE ART COLLECTION OF DAVOOD ROOSTAEI
To be or not to be
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 120x80cm
Material: Oil on linen bag
Year of creation: 1989
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
The picture shows the arena of life, in which the matador, who has the facial features of Davood, fights against time with cloth and sword.
the bull, fights.
The king of a chess game lies fallen on the ground, only the pawn remains upright.
The upper left background of the picture is formed by the squares of the chessboard, the board on which the game of life is played. At the top right of the picture you can see the arena gate
with the deadly poison DDT, the date of Davood's birth, 10/2/59, is written, the day on which the atmosphere of the arena was poisoned.
From that day on, the arena was changed.
The matador fights against time in search of immortality.
If you rotate the image 90 degrees to the right, four alarm clocks without numbers or hands are visible.
Each represents one of the four seasons. Scattered across the entire picture are deformed people and sperm that only survive for a short time because they cannot find the cell and cannot become humans.
They are a symbol of the negative people who disappear without leaving anything behind.
Rebirth
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 120x80cm
Material: oil on canvas
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
The picture was painted before the fall of the Wall.
The picture center shows the monument of Martin Luther and the ruins of the Frauenkirche in Dresden,
on which a rooster crows at the sun of the new day.
A hand stretches out of the tower to the left, holding a trowel.
At the bottom left of the picture, an ear of corn grows from the rubble of destroyed houses.
Trowel and ear of wheat are symbols of reconstruction, of emerging from ruins.
In the middle of the foreground the viewer sees the back of a satellite,
in which, like a vase, there are flowers.
When reunification took place on October 3, 1989,
Davood Roostaei painted this date as a license plate on the Trabi.
Previously, next to the sign that said “GDR,” there was a second one that said “BRD.”
The 12 apostles are spread across the entire picture.
They hold trowels in their hands as a symbol of reconstruction.
Vincent and Theo
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 100x140cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1989
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
The portrait of Vincent van Gogh is shown above the graves of Vincent and Theo.
A ballerina dances between the graves as a symbol of the brothers' unity.
Both were like one:
Vincent without Theo,
Theo without Vincent is unimaginable.
A year after Vincent, Theo also died.
Both form a unity beyond their lives, even in death.
Davood's name is written on one of the gravestones,
on the other that of his dearest friend.
joy and suffer
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 70x90cm
Material: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1998
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
Davood Roostaei painted this painting after winning the 1998 Diamond of the Year artist award. This artist award, which Davood Roostaei received at a time when he was in an emotional low, gave him renewed strength and new belief in himself and his art. The trophy can be seen in the lower right half.
In the lower left half of the picture you can see the head of a little boy. This boy is Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, who founded the “Diamond of the Year” award ceremony and has become a good friend of Davood.
If you rotate the image 180°, the little boy's face becomes Davood Roostaei's face. This is intended to symbolize the deep friendship between the two.
The focus of the picture is the face of the child's grandmother, who died at the time of the award ceremony after a long, serious illness. However, nothing of this can be seen in the picture; Davood painted her the way she must feel now, happy, content and released from her torment and close to part of her loved ones again. This is symbolized by a waiting man in the upper left side of the picture who represents the grandmother's husband.
The little boy, her grandson, is seen as a sign of contrast to her age. He also smiles, Davood symbolizes that death is a part of our lives.
If you look at the prize trophy in a different light, you can see an angel in it, which in turn symbolizes that the grandmother now watches over the family as an angel.
A semi-transparent cloth is tied around the grandmother's head through which you can see a wreath of thorns as a symbol of the suffering this woman has endured in her life. The scarf itself represents the headdress that Mother Teresa wore, symbolizing the woman's goodness and warmth.
On the right side of the picture, at the woman's eye level, you can see a heart. This means that the grandmother lives on in the hearts of the entire family even after her death.
Goodbye, Germany
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 150 x 120 cm
Material: Stretched canvas - acrylic
Year of creation: 2000
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the painting
The Schmidt family is shown in this picture,
Davood Roostaei's face is in the background.
The picture symbolizes the artist's close connection to his family as well as his gratitude for their help in emigrating to America.
This is particularly symbolized by the fact that three of the family members in the picture are wearing ties in the shape of the American flag.
These three people played a key role in Davood's new beginning in America through their commitment and financial resources.
The center of the painting is the parents, who are also the center and support of the family in real life.
The flags of Germany and America can be found again and again both in the background of the picture and in the various items of clothing worn by the people depicted.
since Germany became a new home for Davood Roostaei and America should and did become his new home.
Retirement in the arena
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 120x150cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
Davood painted the picture after a suicide attempt, which he committed because of lost love and survived. The arena is empty except for the bull. The matador died. The bull, symbol of time, screams to heaven. Zarathustra can be seen in the background on the right. Opposite his face is written “Every death is a beginning.” Horses lie on the ground with their legs stretched in the air. A red woman's boot, a symbol of femininity, protrudes diagonally from above into almost the entire picture.
Dance of Freedom
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 120x150cm
Material: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the work of art: Dance of Freedom
The picture shows Picasso's female figures from the ballet "Le Train Bleu" and Picasso's dove. The women dance and carry the dove of peace in their hands.
The deformed twelve disciples of Jesus can be seen spread across the entire picture.
“Freedom for all people” is written on the body of the peace dove.
lonliness
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 100x140cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1989
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
The image shows Vincent's portrait above the boats in a harmonious arrangement.
The boats are included here as a symbol of Vincent's fight against the waves of life.
A tribute to the lonely artist and his desperate strength,
with which he wanted to give something to people and searched for the truth,
which always eluded him.
Brush ballet
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 100x80cm
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1989
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
In the middle of the picture you can see the silhouette of Hamburg,
painted from the roof of the Bavaria brewery,
where Kokoschka also painted his view of Hamburg.
There is a corner in front,
full of brush pots,
captured from Davood's studio.
On the left a boot of Davood,
The brushes also protrude from the shaft.
For Davood, brushes and canvas have a special music.
Applying paint to the canvas while painting is like a dance.
For him, the brushes are the ballerinas. The ballet dancer is painted transparently in the background
Forbidden Art / Emil Nolde
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 120x150cm
Material: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Philosophy of the artwork:
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
In the picture 'Forbidden Art', Davood Roostaei's cryptorealistic painting style is revealed in all its expressiveness, diverse forms and transcending colors. The painting, created in 1995, is dedicated to Emil Nolde, whose open face looking into the distance forms the center of the picture. But upon closer inspection, the viewer realizes that two other facial features shine through Nolde's portrait: the mischievous, visionary face of Albert Einstein and the self-portrait of the artist, who, as a refugee from Iran, relates himself to his artistic and moral role model. Einstein and Davood Roostaei's features become more apparent the further you move away from the picture. The same effect occurs as the darkness increases. If you turn the painting upside down, a self-portrait of the painter appears again, but not on its own, but as part of a larger whole. Davood Roostaei does not reflect on himself, he wants to reflect himself in his mission statements and hold a mirror up to himself in front of their work. In oriental symbolism, the mirror does not serve as a symbol of vanity as in the West, but as a symbol of truth and the search for truth. The puzzle face is divided into a light and a dark half to express that neither Nolde nor Einstein were pure figures of light, but are composed of light and dark features that complement and depend on each other. The eyes also appear double-faced. Up close, they appear warm and open. Viewed from a greater distance, they look rather startling. The face appears to be supported by two interlocked hands. At first glance they look like two hands folded in prayer, but upon closer inspection you see that the hands are, as it were, wrestling with each other - like two opposing force fields. Apparently these are the hands of an artist struggling with himself, which are hard and soft at the same time, hard when gripping and sensitive when feeling the material.
Like other cryptorealist works by Davood Roostaei, his work 'Forbidden Art' consists not of one, but of many images. Scattered throughout the entire work are numerous echoes and quotations from Nolde's watercolors. The clown mask at the top right is striking, but it looks extremely sad. Nolde's picture “Autumn by the Lake” is taken at the bottom of the picture and is exaggerated in a mythical way, as if the opposites of fire and water wanted to merge into one another. Nolde's poppies are spread out crypto-realistically throughout the painting. The red of the flowers changes several times to a bloody red. There are also a whole host of cryptic faces, stars and signs. Seen from a distance, some look like cave paintings, others like the wall scribbles of small children, as if the painter wanted to remind us of the genetic origins of all forms of artistic representation.
The entire painting is covered with elongated raindrops that run down as if on a steamed up window pane. The Hegen not only symbolizes the misery of exile and the Low German landscape, it also serves as a symbol of purity and represents the tears that the artist and the thinker have to shed in the loneliness of their work if they want to remain true to their mission.
beginning and end
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Size: 100x60cm
Year of creation: 2003
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Unity of religions 2
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 2002
Size: 80x100cm
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Melody of Femininity 1
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 48x60cm
Material: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 2003
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Philosophy of the artwork:
Enlightenment
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 150x100cm
Material: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1998
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Cosmic game 1
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 40x60cm
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1992
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Cosmic game 2
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 40x60cm
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1992
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
transformation
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 60x80cm
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 2000
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Melody of Femininity II
Melody of Femininity II
48x60
48x60
Magic Prince
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 40x60cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1994
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Magic of nature 2
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 40x60cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1994
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Sound of art
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 60x80cm
Year of creation: 1989
Material: watercolor, felt-tip pen on paper
Year of creation: 1989
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Garden of Eden
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 30x40cm
Year of creation: 1994
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Rise and fall
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Material: acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 2003
Size: 120x150cm
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Monaco at night
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Size: 40x50cm
Material: Oil / Acrylic on canvas
Year of creation: 1997
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Abraham Lincoln
Art Movement: Cryptorealism
Material: oil and acrylic
canvas
Large: 20 x 30 cm
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
Material: oil and acrylic
canvas
Large: 20 x 30 cm
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Hand signed
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Frame: Included
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