Kulturlandsgemeinde Festival 2023 - es heimatet, wir heimaten →

Between two alphabets and cultures: Hoseyn A. Zadeh invites you to design monograms with the Nazanin and Times New Roman fonts. How do we find each other through similarities - across all supposed home borders?

The Kulturlandsgemeinde Festival 2023 / Echo 2024 lets the homeland clouds gather: fine fields of clouds that condense, accumulate and discharge on the Ascension weekend from 18 to 21 May 2023 around the Zeughaus Teufen in art and music, scents and carvings, debates and experiments, while eating, writing and working together.

Photo by Andri Vöhringer

Between two alphabets and cultures with KULTURKOSMONAUTEN →

Hoseyn A. Zadeh's workshop in cooperation with KULTURKOSMONAUTEN, Raum für Literatur St. Gallen-Switzerland

Description of the workshop:
. created a combination monogram of two different classic typefaces in Farsi and Roman (Nazanin and Times).
Nazanin typeface has been designed by Hossein Abdollah Haghighi for Linotype Company in 1978. It is one of the popular typeface that is used for most Iranian newspaper and magazines.
. the first letter of the participant’s name was offered in Farsi and Roman as print and vector file.
. at the beginning of the session participants gave an explanation about Farsi script and characters of Nazanin and Times typefaces and idea.
. we sketched on paper and then created a monogram combination. after primary sketch we converted the works to into a digital version.

Photos by Pamela Dürr

White Flag in Zürich →

Hoseyn A. Zadeh: Installation, video and poster

Zürich, Wartsaal Wipkingen

«Warten2» im Regierungsgebäude - Stadt St.Gall →

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Fast acht Jahre wartete der iranische Künstler Hoseyn A. Zadeh auf seine Aufenthaltsbewilligung in der Schweiz. Es war eine Zeit zwischen Hoffen und Bangen. Entstanden ist daraus die Werkserie «warten». Zadeh hat die Wartezeit in seiner Sprache Farsi wiedergegeben – auf der obersten Linie stehen die Jahre, dann die Monate hinab bis zu den Sekunden. Zuunterst steht die Zahl 243 043 200. Es sind die Sekunden, die Zadeh gewartet hat. Das Amt für Kultur hat den Künstler eingeladen, das Zimmer 219 im Regierungsgebäude mit der Wandarbeit «warten» zu bereichern.

Text: Markus Wehrli, Kommunikation Staatskanzlei
Photos: Michael Guggenheimer, Thomas Hary

White Flag →

Ja Nein Vielleicht - Group Exhibition at Kunsthalle[n] Toggenburg

What scares us?
The colour?
The writing?
The statement?
Or...?

I google white flag (peace).
I want beautiful calligraphy.
But fear pervades me.
I feel bad.
It's uncomfortable.
Where does it connect us?
I cannot continue...
The flag of Afghanistan was changed on 17 August 2021.

Flag text: «Greetings to St. Gallen!»
Photos: Ueli Alder

Between two alphabets ( i > we < i ) →

Between two alphabets Typography workshop and exhibition in Dunant Museum in Heiden

Young refugees and young people from the region work together to develop a core message on a topic that concerns and moves them. From this message, a term is highlighted and from the first letter of this term, a new typeface is created - a monogram consisting of the alphabets of the respective languages of origin.

A common sign for a common idea: Red Cross on a white background - since 1864, the sign initiated by Henry Dunant has protected helpers and those seeking help in armed conflicts. Today, a red cross, a red crescent or a red crystal embody protection and help in need worldwide. However, this protective function is regularly undermined by misuse of the emblems, by ignorance or unscrupulous warfare. The exhibition uses impressive objects and posters to shed light on the development and spread of what is probably the world's best-known emblem. But the show also asks, along the lines of two current initiatives, what it takes for symbols and emblems to have an effect: "Between2Alphabets" by the artist Hoseyn A. Zadeh and a global flag project by the Belarusian opposition show how common symbols can unite and create identity.

«Warten2» in Heimspiel 21 - Kunsthaus Glaru →

Kunsthaus Glarus:
Hoseyn A. Zadeh waited 7.703 years for his residence permit. Con- verting this time into various units (years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds) illustrates the ambivalent nature of worrying about and hoping for approval from the state: the monumental figures put an exact time to this and thus a concrete measurement; the long duration in combination with the Persian letters makes this time span abstract and elusive for many Central Europeans.
Title: Warten2 | Year of creation: Idee 2015 / Exhibited: 2021 | Material: PVC foil | Dimensions: W 300 cm x H 480 cm
Heimspiel: December 10, 21 - January 30, 22

Text: Otto Bonnen

«Warten2» in Heimspiel 21 - Kunsthalle Appenzel →

Kunsthalle Appenzell:
«Warten» ist ein körperlicher und seelischer Vorgang. Warten ist körper- und farblos. Warten ist etwas, das in unserer Zeit und in unserer Gesellschaft ebenso wie Langeweile fast unschicklich ist, ausser es ist Schicksal. Warten kann man kaum visualisieren – aber man kann, wie Hoseyn A, Zadeh, Dauer zeigen: als Zahl und Schrift an der Wand, ein Menetekel, zugleich wunderschön in der ästhetischen Gestaltung, und schrecklich, als Reflex auf das individuelle Erleben. Warten ist Entgegensehen.
Titel: Warten2 | Entstehungsjahr: Idee 2015 / Ausgestellt: 2021 | Material: Schwarze Deckfarbe & graue Kleisterfarbe | Masse: W 600 cm x H 490 cm
Heimspiel: 10. Dezember 21 - 30. Januar 22

Text: Roland Scotti
Photos: Urs Baumann