Bicharegan: Arvin Golrokh
  • ARVIN GOLROKH Bicharegan curated by Demetrio Paparoni THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 6 pm PRIMO MARELLA GALLERY Via Valtellina 31, 20159 Milano
    Detail: Arvin Golrokh, Bicharegan 5, 2025, Oil on canvas, 200 × 240 cm

     

     

    ARVIN GOLROKH

    Bicharegan

    curated by Demetrio Paparoni

     

     

    THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

    6 pm

     

     

    PRIMO MARELLA GALLERY 

    Via Valtellina 31, 20159 Milano

     

     

     

     

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    Primo Marella Gallery Milan is pleased to present Bicharegan, the new solo exhibition by Arvin Golrokh, curated by Demetrio Paparoni.
     

    This project is part of a series particularly dear to the artist, entitled Bicharegan (بیچارگان).

    In Persian, “Bicharegan” means “the miserable ones”, yet the term goes beyond mere poverty: it refers to a deeper social condition. These are not simply victims, but individuals excluded from the cycle of power, destined to be forgotten – those who endure history without ever being able to write it: genocides, systematic violence, illusions of supremacy.

     

    The figures Golrokh paints are not just broken bodies; they are witnesses to a world where ruins are not only material but structural. They bear the marks of this condition: corroded faces, fractured bodies, presences that seem to dissolve over time. They are not mere fragments of the past but speak also of the present – a present that continues to generate marginalization and decay.

     
     
  • In Bicharegan, Arvin Golrokh develops a visual inquiry into the dynamics of exclusion and marginality, exploring the traces of structural violence that run through both past and present. His works document fragmented bodies, corroded faces, and suspended presences – material witnesses of a denied history. Painting becomes an ethical device: the matter itself, dense and corporeal, restores to pain its physicality without any spectacular mediation.
     
    The series offers neither consolation nor idealization; each canvas reflects on the relationship between visibility and responsibility, between collective memory and contemporary inertia.
     
    Golrokh articulates a poetics of ruin, in which material density becomes language, and the painterly gesture acts as a tool of resistance and testimony. Bicharegan stands as a reflection on the act of seeing, questioning the viewer about the role of art in representing suffering and preserving historical memory.
  • Bicharegan (بیچارگان), “the miserable': not merely victims, but those excluded from the cycle of power, destined to be forgotten. They...
    Arvin Golrokh, L'uomo con la terra sulle mani, 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 × 80 cm

    Bicharegan (بیچارگان), “the miserable": not merely victims, but those excluded from the cycle of power, destined to be forgotten. They are the ones who endure history without ever being able to write it.

     

     – ARVIN GOLROKH
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  • about the artist

    about the artist

    Arvin Golrokh (Teheran, 1992) is an Iranian artist, based between Teheran and Turin (Italy), where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 2012.
    He has presented his work in several solo and group exhibitions across Europe, including Fenice, ante fata resurgo (Primo Marella Gallery, Lugano, 2024), Ri-Connessioni (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2024), InterACTION (Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, 2024) and Sopernova23 at MiArt (Milan, 2023).
    Golrokh has received several recognitions, including the Premio Alessandro Marena (Turin, 2021), Premio Mestre di Pittura (Venice, 2019), and Premio Nocivelli (Brescia, 2019). His works are part of public collections such as Ca’ Pesaro and the Musei Civici in Venice, and the Accademia Albertina in Turin. 
     
    His recent research explores the tension between his homeland’s lived experiences and those encountered in the Western world, focusing on how societies and governments shape — and attempt to control — collective vision. From this perspective, he underlines the need to preserve a clear, independent outlook on the world. His family’s past and his own experience in Tehran have provided him with crucial insight into the mechanisms of control and influence.
     
    Golrokh focuses on a few but essential themes, reworking traditional forms into fragmented and layered images that slowly unfold their meaning only through long observation. His works are often filled with figures and objects that seem to compete for attention, creating a sense of tension and layered meaning. The artist also studies the gestures and posture of his characters: they appear authorative and trustworthy, yet the setting around them transforms this authority into something uncertain and fragile.
  • Works

  • ARVIN GOLROKH 

     

    BICHAREGAN

     

    curated by Demetrio Paparoni

     

     

    EXHIBITION DATES:

    13 NOVEMBER, 2025 - 15 JANUARY, 2026

     

     

    PRIMO MARELLA GALLERY 

    Via Valtellina 31, 20159 Milano