By Azad Karimi
My painting serves as an extension of the perception of the space...I achieve it with the means of simplification, reduction of the quantity of the objects, colors simplification by making colors more intensive than they are in reality… Sometimes, sometimes not.
Interview
Ukrainian Painter, Songwriter and Dancer Denis Pavlovich Adushkin
By Azad Karimi
I wanted to write the introduction about The Committed Art but my opinion is changed because I felt the need to write about Democracy and what we are involved in in this era because of the War in Ukraine. So I decided to rewrite one of my Daily notes that I published a few days ago on my Facebook.
I respect to Ukrainian people and Russian heroes who, along with other people in the world, took to the streets to defend the heroic people of Ukraine and protested against the Russian dictator and her aides, but were beaten by the Kremlin dictator's mercenaries and more than four thousand of them were imprisoned. From children to brave and freedom-loving old men and women who defended their human dignity, high feelings. For peace. And for the brave lady and Russian heroine Lady Yelena Osipova.
When democracy revolts against oppression!
The alliance of the left with the Islamists is not a new issue. I knew people with these thoughts, from my close friends in high school to Sunni Kurdish mullahs who had gone through the era of the fanaticism of previous generations and studied the Muslim-Marxist manifestos that ruled Iran and were influenced by this kind of thought. Sayed Qutb, Ali Shariati, Abdul Karim Soroush, Jalal Ale Ahmad, Dariush Shayegan, and the like were popular.
I was fascinated by movements such as the Polish Solidarity movement led by Lech Wałęsa and the struggles of the Baltic people, as well as Václav Havel, Namibia, and Nelson Mandela. Maybe because I was more indigenous and lived in a Kurdish city in western Iran, and since my childhood, I have seen constant oppression, political dichotomy, and systematic discrimination and oppression in my living environment.
The mass media in Iran is dominated by the government, and the regime uses television, Radio, Newspapers, Cinema, and... to broadcast and justify its policies. The Iranian regime used all means to purify, sanctify and justify its existence in the large, industrial, and densely populated cities of Iran.
Kurdistan is located in the northwest and west, and because it is with Turkey and Iraq borders, and these countries were at war with their Kurds, our region was very isolated in every way, and a simple soldier who was sent to Kurdistan from other parts of Iran, first they scared him, then they brainwashed him religiously, then they gave him a weapon, which in Kurdistan is the only weapon of your brother and friend, so you should always be in aggressive there.
With these thoughts, a soldier or a guard came to Kurdistan and committed all kinds of crimes, relying on his weapons and the power he felt from his regime.
For example, I remember one night on Channel One Iran TV a Tele-theater broadcast about the trial of Steve Biko in South Africa.
However, on that cold, snowy night in December 1985, we were watching a Tele-theater where the sound of continuous gunfire could be heard from everywhere. We had learned that in these cases we had to turn off the lights and move away from the windows and all gather in the center of the house so that if a bullet hit the house it might hit the walls of the adjoining rooms. This street clash lasted for several hours and we heard Persian and Kurdish voices and words loudly and sometimes these voices turned into whispers and we knew that the regime soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga were passing by the walls and from everywhere. They used the walls as a trench.
Eventually, the shootings ended and deadly darkness and silence pervaded. We had an exam the next day. But I was not worried, I was smart and I had prepared myself for the exam. The next morning my friend followed me and we went to school together. He told me that I would show you a deadly scene now. He said a peshmerga (Kurdish fighter) was wounded and captured by regime soldiers but had been shot dead there. The place where this happened was between our house and my friend's house.
When we got there, I saw blood and muddy water in the alley. The smell of blood was very disgusting. I did not say anything and told my friend that school is late!
We got to school and took the exam, but during the exam, I felt like I was fainting. I took the exam and hurried back home and told my mother that I was sick. I remember I had a terrible fever and chills and my mother was very worried and informed her mother to come and do something. My father was an employee of the Iranian government and was on a mission outside the city. My grandmother came and told my mother that this child is afraid of blood. She said: he has been taken by the human's blood. That is, he has shocked to see human blood. Just be careful not to let the fever go up. He will get better.
But I got sick for a few days and I have a memory of it that still lingers today.
The regime of the Iranian mullahs used many Palestinians, Lebanese and Iraqi Kurds who were refugees in Iran to suppress Kurdistan in those years. This use of non-Iranians as a tool to suppress Iranians continued until the November 2019 street revolution. The Iranian regime knew full well that it had to have several mercenary and paramilitary groups for various missions, and the Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites were most loyal to it because they received the most money from the Iranian mullahs' regime. In fact, the mullahs' regime and its affiliated militias had been trained in Lebanon and had close ties to Palestinian leaders. We all know that Yasser Arafat was a Tunisian Marxist. The Soviets were supporting him.
When the mullahs came to power in Iran, Arafat immediately visited Khomeini and Khomeini ordered to hand over the Israeli embassy in Tehran to the Palestinians. In fact, in those years, Israel was almost isolated and was basically an enemy of Israel, a kind of intellectual and libertarian. You all know that the oil money of the Arab world influenced the international media and the fanfare of the supporters of the ruling mullahs in Iran, which was accompanied by Soviet support, had created a world of admiration and fascination!
Thus the Kurdish movement, the existence of Israel, and other ideologies that were not inclined to Islam or Marxism were marginalized in the minds of the world. But there were other adventures in Europe that changed the course of global political change.
But I could never sympathize with the Palestinians and the southern Lebanese because they were allies of a regime that committed crimes in the streets of my city. I'm not sorry to say so frankly, but it's a fact. Of course, I read later what happened in 1947-1948 and the Palestinians did not heed the UN ruling and then all the Arab and Muslim countries supported them, but the same Arab and Islamic countries treated Kurds with treachery and oppression and made their peoples enemy to us for no reason. That made me feel no sympathy for the Palestinians.
In my mind, as a teenager, everything that was related to the criminal mullahs of Iran is rejected... like the relations between the Palestinians, the Lebanese, and the Iranian Mullah Regime... but with the passage of time and my personal study and experience of the course of events and political developments in the Middle East and the world, my distrust of the Palestinians and Lebanese affiliated with the Iranian mullah regime became rational and doctrinal.
These people with this kind of dirty and illegitimate, immoral and illegal relations with the regime of the mullahs of Iran, never have a place in my political culture and I consider them my enemy and the people of Kurdistan, Iran and international order and global reconciliation.
Let us return to the double standards of the Iranian mullahs' regime.
Mohammad Khatami entered politics due to historical coercion, although he was previously the Minister of Guidance and Islamic Culture and was a supporter of Hashemi Rafsanjani. But after the scandal of the Iranian mullahs in the assassination of the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin and the international pressure on this regime and the complete isolation of the ruling mullahs in Iran, their mastermind Hashemi Rafsanjani forced Mullah Ali Khamenei, to leave Iran's international isolation. Rafsanjani forced Mullah Ali Khamenei to appoint Mohammad Khatami, a ruthless and cunning jackal, as the prophet of reform in order to reduce internal and external pressures. Their plan succeeded. First, of everyone, the left-Islamic currents supported him, and this support is still going on.
However, a lot of energy was taken from the opposition currents inside and outside, especially inside. This time, the sharp edge of the mullahs' assassination knife returned to Iran, and many writers and politicians were assassinated. But the false theory of the dialogue of civilizations reached the United Nations, and other ridiculous things happened after that that do not need to be rewritten.
Reforms did not work because there were no reforms at all. Documenting this claim was the last speech by Mir Hossein Mousavi at the height of the street uprisings in Tehran and other cities in the early summer of 2009, he replied protesting people: I am sorry that I can not meet your request! In his intellectual perspective, there was no such thing as meeting people's demands. Because the protesting people of Iran told him to change the regime! Mousavi said I can not because I am part of this regime!
I was very happy when I heard this from Mousavi and said that thank God the masks fell and now the Iranian people will take action themselves. But these people did not understand anything called a democracy because of their religious leanings and intellectual sluggishness over the eighty-year history of communist Islam. They still do not understand. If they had understood, there would have been a fundamental change in their intellectual and behavioral system that would have changed the Iranian system.
Rarely do I see Iranians in Europe and the United States who understand democracy. they can not. Everywhere they look, they see that democracy questions all their ideological values. Therefore, they are always pessimistic and protest against democracy. This is a fact.
That is why when the Iranian regime sends Qassem Soleimani to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Afghanistan to disrupt the political and social system of these countries, all Iranians, without exception, are silent and do not protest. That is why the good and the bad Iranians express the same opinion on the issue of confrontation with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the West. Because they are politically blind. They have been blinded by intense light. That is why Westerners are deceived when they say: No! They have not blinded the Iranians, because they have not covered their eyes with black cloth! But they do not pay attention to the fact that in order to prove that a person is blind, we do not need to show his eyes must be closed or have been covered.
Yes! The Iranians have not been blindfolded with black cloth, they have struck the Iranians in the eyes with intense light, they have both blinded them and you have been deceived by the Mullahs regime because you only see the appearance of these people but you do not know that these people are blind and they do not see ...
That is why this deceitful regime has been deceiving everyone for 43 years. And now all those gathered by Qassem Soleimani, Putin's number one servant, called the Defenders of Shiite Shrines in Syria, are to be sent to Russia to support Putin in his fight against the brave people of Ukraine. This was said by the US government.
But this war is the beginning of a global revolution.
The revolution of democracy against totalitarianism and oppression ... Despite its bitterness, we have one hope, the hope of achieving freedom, prosperity, and equality for the people in oppressed countries ... Yes! Democracy will win ... rest assured!
That night, when I saw the Iranian regime's Tele-theater shedding tears for an African protesting, but at the same moment Iranian regime soldiers firing at Kurdish protesters near the walls of my house, I realized that something was wrong and needed to be done corrected. I'm doing this!
I wish my dear friend Denis more success and happiness.
Thank you!
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1- Please present yourself (Name, education, Civil status and...)
. Denis Pavlovich Adushkin, Ukraine
Education: Technical college- electrician, self-educated artist.
Status- free artist.
2- What is your artistic specialize?
. Painting, electronic music.
3- When and how did you become interested in this fields of art?
. Father and all the family were fond of arts, painting, making music, dance.
Later my works were noticed by 2 famous artists: Ohno Sand from Norway and world-known American artist and film director Julian Schnabel, which motivated me to make art on regular basis.
4- Who was your motivator?
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5- What was your parent’s reaction?
. Parents mainly approved and supported my painting practice, but at the same time, my father was severely against my taking this way.
6-Please tell us when started you such as a professional painter?
. I started to paint on a regular basis from 2003
7-Tell us Please: Do you see a special connect between Painting and culture?
. Painting is the visual expression of cultural processes.
8- Are you thankful and happy because of your activities as a painter?
. Yes! No matter if my pictures are sold or not, I am happy with my art practice.
9- Why do some Painting become immortal?
. Pictures, artworks become immortal when they correspond to the spirit of future generations.
10-Can you explain about painting logice?
. I see painting logic in the artist's being the mediator of the Devine beauty. It was spoken and repeated by many artists and theorists, and although in our society it is not so easy to and although in our society it is not so easy to pronounce these words, they remain the main truth about the art for me.
11- I would like to ask you about painting in our life. Can you tell us about that?
. There are many different directions in modern art and each direction has its own principles and its own language as well as sense. I can say more definitely about my own aims in art. My painting serves as an extension of the perception of the space...I achieve it with the means of simplification, reduction of the quantity of the objects, colors simplification by making colors more intensive than they are in reality… Sometimes, sometimes not.
12- How do you see the view for art, painting, the future of culture?
. I don't. I Don't understand, where human culture moves at the present moment...
13- Can you become one part of the artistic-cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generation in your country and so than?
. Yes, I am already taking part in the national art projects, that are aimed at developing Eastern Ukrainian art schools. I also conduct master-classes of paintings for young people, where I also try to present the most important international art movements and most influential artists, which also influenced me.
14- How can you help our world become a better place to live?
. I can make this world better by continuing making art and by promoting art and the idea that by means of art we can search and find the beauty of the world we live in.
15- Have you more word to say or suggestion for our readers?
. I think it's very important at this moment of time that different cultures and traditions should collaborate and meet and understand each other on multiple projects. I am willing to participate in international exhibitions and find my place in the international art process.
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