Essays & Writings

Le Sens dans le Jeu de la Couleur et de l'Espace : Sémiotique des œuvres de Jalaleddin Mashmooli

Par Dr. Marzieh Athari Nik Azm - Docteure en sémiotique de l'Université de Paris, Linguiste et Professeure associée à l'Université Shahid Beheshti (Téhéran)

A critical semiotic study of color, space, and plastic signification in the paintings of Jalaleddin Mashmooli, authored by Dr. Marzieh Athari Nik Azm, Associate Professor of French Language and Literature at Shahid Beheshti University and PhD in Semiotics from Paris, France.

Regard Horizontal sur la Fraîcheur de l'Espace : Une étude géocritique des peintures de Jalaleddin Mashmooli

نگاهی افق به طراوت فضا: نگاهی به نقاشی‌های جلال مشمولی

Par Sohrab Ahmadi - Critique d'art, sémiotique, chercheur et commissaire d'exposition

A geocritical study of Jalaleddin Mashmooli's paintings by Sohrab Ahmadi — multifocality, plurisensoriality, rhizomatic structure and the horizontal gaze, read through Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism.

Beyond Gallery Walls

The Legacy, Impact, and Global Resonance of “Art in the Village”

An exploration of Jalaleddin Mashmooli's pioneering open-air movement, socio-ecological memory, and community-engaged expressionism — and how decades of working outside the white cube reshaped both a rural cultural landscape and the artist's own impasto vocabulary.

Art in the Village

Decentralizing Contemporary Art & Mapping Lived Geographies

Initiated in 2007 by Jalaleddin Mashmooli and the Hajm-e Sabz Art Group, “Art in the Village” (Honar dar Roosta) brought contemporary painters, sculptors, and environmental artists into more than 75 villages across regional Iran — relocating the creative act from the white cube into the rhythm of everyday rural life.