Cher Alborz Teymoorzadeh,
I knew you as a brilliant student in my classes at the University of Luxembourg and I followed your first steps as an artist-photographer – you have talent and you have the energy necessary to make it flourish, it is one of the greatest gifts our world could hope for.
I learned from the media that you are not allowed to stay in this country where you have started to germinate beautiful seeds, on the grounds that your “artistic creations do not bring real added value in terms of economic interests for Luxembourg, do not really serve the interests of the country and cannot be considered as integration into the national or local economic context” (quoted from wort.lu and Lëtzebuerger Land).
I think that even beyond its inanity and inhumanity, such a statement is simply inadmissible! Its authors should already define what the economic added value of an artistic creation is and provide examples. And for my part, I note that without the budget of the Ministry of Culture which allows them to live (sometimes barely to survive), there would be practically no artists in our country!
I am convinced that you will put your work to good use elsewhere, and that consoles me. I also know that (art) history is full of examples of rejected artists who later made their detractors blush with shame, and in Luxembourg we are not new to this field. : how long did Joseph Kutter have to endure the sarcasm of the right-thinking people of his time before being considered the greatest, and Théo Kerg oblivion, even though he is more present in European art books what many local glories? And Michel Majerus? Bert Theis? Even the Family of Man remained buried for decades before being properly exhibited in Clervaux.
Take it as a guarantee of quality – we don’t want you here, so you’re going to go a long way, it’s a bit like with the Nazis and their degenerate art: all the artists they condemned remained in history.
I wish you lots of happiness and success, and who knows? One day, perhaps your works will be snatched away and you will return covered with honors.
Good to you,
Enrico Lunghi
Your professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Luxembourg
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