Alireza Nekouei
Butterfly Effect Acrylic Painting
This contemporary acrylic painting explores power and nature through layered textures, bold symbolism, and philosophical environmental storytelling
Artwork Description
Artist: Alireza Nekouei |
Title: Butterfly Effect |
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas |
Size: 150 cm x 160 cm |
Year: 2016 |
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about this acrylic painting
Alireza's acrylic painting presents a poetic meditation on nature, power, and environmental collapse. In this visual narrative, the abundance and exploitation of natural resources become metaphors for governance and ethical responsibility.
The composition pulses with energy, layering texture, color, and form to express the tension between preservation and destruction. Bold brushstrokes meet delicate materials, each symbolizing fragments of shifting policies, fragile ecosystems, and vanishing landscapes.
References to chaos theory, the butterfly effect, emerge as small marks on canvas echo global disorder and imbalance. Each painting visualizes a world where reckless policy leads to irreversible harm: rising temperatures, barren soil, and disappearing water bodies.
Through its haunting harmony, the work reflects how unconscious human interference disturbs nature’s delicate rhythm. The emotional core lies in the contrast between imagined paradise and lived erosion, a plea for conscious awareness. The result is a visual symphony that draws the viewer inward, demanding a deeper gaze at consequence and responsibility.
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about the artist
Alireza Nekouei was born in Zahedan, Iran, in 1988. He holds a degree in painting from Islamic Azad University, Tehran. His practice spans painting, drawing, and mixed media, often exploring power, displacement, environment, and cultural identity.
Nekouei’s works frequently reference myth, philosophy, and literature, blending them with contemporary environmental concerns. He has exhibited extensively in Iran and abroad, with solo shows like Chaos at Mohsen Gallery and Lines at Etemad Gallery.
His recent series Inhabitants of Eden reflects on global warming, resource inequality, and spiritual dislocation. Over the years, Nekouei has participated in more than 30 group exhibitions across Europe and the Middle East.
His work is held in private collections and has earned accolades in both national and international visual arts festivals. Nekouei brings an intellectual rigor to his art, combining philosophical inquiry with powerful visual storytelling. He is widely regarded as a rising voice in contemporary Iranian art, pushing the boundaries of narrative and material.
copyright
This acrylic painting is sold on a stretched canvas and is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.