Lida Sherafatmand

 

Lida Sherafatmand <lidasherafatmand@yahoo.com>

 

 

biography

 

Lida Sherafatmand was born in 1977 in Iran. She lives in Malta since 1991. Her passion for painting started at the tender age of three, although she took up formal art training in 1996 when she was 19 years old under the locally established artist Anthony Calleja. Once finishing her diploma course in Art, she started holding exhibitions in Malta and other countries. Her favourite themes in painting are human rights concepts and peace. She has written an art manifesto for that aim in 2004, called Humanitarian Art Manifesto , which has been translated to several languages and is being launched annually on international level by artists who share the same vision. This is done through simultaneous exhibitions and performances that the artists hold in their respective countries during the month September of every year.

 

  

 

 

PAINTING EXHIBITIONS:

 

-                      Painting exhibition, “Hope”, on the occasion of the second launching of Humanitarian Art Manifesto, at the exhibition hall, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2005

-                      Solo painting exhibition for Amnesty International (Malta), at University of Malta, April 2005

-                      Painting exhibition during conference “From Conflicts to Reconciliation: the consolidation of dialogue among NGOs and Civil Society in the Mediterranean Countries”, Corinthia San Gorg, Malta, December 2004

-                      Solo painting exhibition at the Gallerie Sufflot du Centre Pantheon, Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris 1 University, “For Human Dignity”, Paris, France, September 2004

-                      Painting exhibition during conference “The Rights of the Child”, Ministry of Education Malta in collaboration with the Council of Europe, September 2003

-               Painting exhibition “For a Culture of Peace”, for UNESCO Malta, Malta, August 2003

-               Painting exhibition during conference about ‘state of children in war situation’, Brussels, Belgium, February 2003

-                      Painting exhibition at St. James Cavalier Center for Creativity (gallery), “life of a refugee”, Malta, January 2003        

-                      Solo exhibition of paintings at the International Telecommunication Union, Palaise des Nations, “Human Rights and Peace”, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2002

-                      Participated in an exhibition/workshop entitled “Internationalism and Peace”, by European artists during a European conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2002

-                      Participated in a collective exhibition entitled “Internationalism and Peace”, by European artists in Brugge, Belgium, September 2002

-                      Participated in a collective exhibition entitled “Internationalism and Peace”, by European artists in Poitier, France, October 2002

-                      Participated in a collective exhibition entitled “Internationalism and Peace” during the World Congress of Junior Chamber International, Las Vegas, U.S.A., November 2002                          

 

 

                Solo exhibition of paintings at Golden Tulip Vivaldi Hotel, Malta, October 2001

-               Took part in a collective exhibition at St. James Cavaliere Art Gallery, Valletta, Malta, April 2001

-            Solo exhibition of paintings at Corinthia San Gorg, Malta, July 2000

-            Three poster designs for Amnesty International, currently for exhibition   at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, Holland, June 1999

-                      Took part in the International Malta International Art Biennale Exhibition with three works, October 1997 (amongst eighty participating countries)

 

 

links

Lida's project: Art for Spirituality

 

www.succ.soka.ac.jp/ ~our/m/Lida.MOM.html

 

 the paintings of Lida Sherafatmand.
494 x 697 pixeles - 84k - jpg
www.aimalta.org

 

Humanitarian Art Manifesto- text

 

tapnet.info/peacedirect/ index.php?showforum=23

 

 

 

poems

 

 

 

Your virtues and mine!

by Lida Sherafatmand

 

 

We resist the culture of those
Outside our territory,

 

Yet we do anything
To spread OUR culture
To those outside our territory;

 

Where is the principle of personal choice?

 

If I see your way of life
An integral part of you,
If I see your way of life
A clash to mine,
I shall look for the virtues!

 

I know my culture carries weaknesses…
And so does yours…

 

But we hold on to the virtues!

 

Virtue of a culture hospitality,
Another carries physical prosperity,
Another one spirituality, another community,
One is colour, one collectivity,
One the art of silence, another the art of sound,

 

See them, feel them,
Enjoy them, love them!

 

We need no government
To dictate us a culture,
No virtue can be dictated,

 

We need a government to
Protect our freedom of personal choice!

 

One virtue for you to build,
Another virtue for me to build,

 

It is Humanity
To reach Happiness,
Through you and me
Our virtues to build,
Our hearts to reach…

 

Lida Sherafatmand

May 2005

 

POETRY BY STÉPHANE MICHOT inspired on Lida´s paintings   LINKS

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