Paper collage, acrylics and oil pastels on illustration board (matted and framed).
10.50x14.50"
The original artwork size is 5.5 x 9.5 inches.
One Thousand and One Nights is a Persian story about Shahryar; a king who is ruling in "India and China", once shocked to learn that his wife is unfaithful, so he has her killed. In his bitterness and grief, he decides that all women are the same. Shahryār begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning before she has a chance to dishonor him. Eventually, the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade (the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion of this tale, postpones her execution once again. This goes on for 1,001 nights.
The tales include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques, and various forms of erotica. Numerous stories depict jinies, ghouls, apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally.
Banafsheh Erfanian is a Toronto based painter, illustrator, and educator. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She graduated from Tehran University of Art with a Bachelor of Graphic Design and holds a master's in Illustration. Banafsheh has illustrated many books and magazines and has written more than 25 articles in art reviews. Her work exhibited in 45 exhibitions around the world such as in Iran, Italy, US, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, and Serbia- has won awards such as RBC Arts Access Awards, Canada, 2019 and 2017, The Award of Excellence of Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition, China, 2016; the 1st Prize of The Second Festival of Text Books Illustration, Iran, 2006; the Encouragement Prize of the 15th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustration, Japan, 2004, among others. Banafsheh has been short-listed in numerous international illustration catalogs and awarded grants from Toronto Art Council, and City of Toronto.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am an artist and educator who is always in search of learning new things which gives me the responsibility to give back the knowledge gained to others. I deeply believe that life is the quest for knowledge in a broad sense. Each human being has come to the world to tell their story. self-discovery is a great story to be told which is a journey of searching into the things that offer existential and critical thinking. Everyone can be a story-teller, no matter what they do in their lives. Even chemistry, physics or math formula has beautiful stories to share. I tell my story through art and I am fond of what I do. I do emphasize on imagination as a great tool of expression. The stories I illustrate convey mythical themes and are full of rich imagination. Most of these layered stories for children or adults embody deep philosophical thoughts. The stories that share their message through magical realism or surrealism are very inspirational to me because I see them as a platform through which I illustrate what is beyond reality.
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