Portrait Series

Portraiture, which was used in classical painting as a representative and in complete similarity with the real portrait of people, over time, by famous portrait painters has moved towards becoming abstract and then realizing the psychoanalytical elements of the person in the portrait. This type of realization of the portrait with psychoanalytical, abstract and imaginative elements is also evident in the collection of Kambiz Khodabandeh's portraits: In such way that, he has moved not only from representation in a discrete classical manner, but also by gradually changing  the color, face lines and the way of looking in the portraits has moved towards his idealistic and special type of portraiture, in which sharp rhythms and warm colors and parallel to each other, the addition of an abstract or real element to the portrait and the direction of its direct gaze (the eyes in the portrait) cause the production and multiplication of meaning: therefore, in this collection, the intersection of the viewer's gaze and the portrait's gaze directly, causes the processing of discursive syntax and non-verbal or a visual language by Khodabandeh.  Considering what has been said, Khodabandeh's portraits, like his utopia, are idealized, sometimes discrete and sometimes connected with an element, piece by piece or connected in a network of meaning, as if they indicate an ideal face in the artist's imaginary world and his desire to realize this face in the reality.

Sohrab Ahmadi