Bobak Etminani

"Etminani is moving in the direction of the new abstraction that I have seen in Europe and North America in the past few years. It is a reinvented abstraction that begins with an understanding of the postmodern image world, an abstraction based on our immersion in image-based reality; yet it is also an abstraction that is resistant to the narrative ease of this image world and is resolute in creating a pictorial space within painting where images remain malleable and formative, open to the human engagement that shapes meaning as a negotiation of fact and sensibility rather than as a transaction of recognitions and readymade content." (Richard Rhodes, Editor of the Canadian Art Magazine, 2008) 

http://www.canadianart.ca/online/2008/01/17/manfromtehran/