Colorful Foam Paintings by Salman Khoshroo

Iranian artist Salman Khoshroo is back on the grid with a series of foam portrait paintings.

“PU expanding foam is perhaps one of the most difficult materials to work with and control. This sticky froth is very unpredictable, growing and expanding for a couple of hours until it cures. The exposed skin of the material hardens in the first minutes, leaving the uncured center to expand and push the skin outwards, ending in a bulging shape.

In my experience with thick paint, the brush and knife tend to make concave imprints on the surface. For years I wanted to create protruding strokes that better resemble the convex shapes of the face and head. Convexness is a prevalent property of ‘being’ in physical space. It is a key issue when creating sculpture and painting that push for outward material existence.”

— Salman Khoshroo

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