. . . In his painting, Ovissi also in treading upon the ground full of allurements, but he avoids the Persian folklore and draws upon a mature tradition already committed to a compa­rison with the west. His inspiration is not drawn from nature, saga of Fables but from history and civilization.
. . . Ovissi's style is imbued with a quality which places his painting on the threshold of poetry and on the frontier line between painting and calligraphy ... For him subject matter is not the end; he sets out instead through and beyond the subject matter to find a continuity and rhythm which only the forms can generate ...

GIULIO CARLO ARGAN | 1983 – 1992
Prof. of Art History Rome University