Art Gallery of The College of New Jersey presents “Parable of the Garden” focusing on
 cultural legacy of former Persia  Opening Reception Wednesday, February 20

The show features the works of ten artists or collaborative teams hailing from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

Featured Artists:

 Vyacheslav Akhunov
Muratbek Djoumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva
Shahram Entekhabi
Simin Keramati
Khosro Khosravi
Erbossyn Meldibekov
Almagul Menlibayeva
Rahraw Omarzad/Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan
Karan Reshad/Kolah Studio
Alexander Ugay

http://www.tcnj.edu/~pa/news/2008/parableofthegarden.htm

                             Download My New Video Art, "Fifth Grade" 2006

This video will show at the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern ,13 may 2007

In this work, I look into the educational structure of 10-11 years old girls in Iran. The work carefully explores the effect of the governing patterns of education on the children at that vulnerable age, when their childish characteristics mingle with adolescence. While the video directly addresses religious and pedagogical issues, deep inside it deals with broader cultural contradictions; the contradiction between literature and politics, the contradiction between life and death. The paradoxical dialogues read by schoolgirls are chosen from the fifth grade reading book (Farsi). We observe a blurred image, gradually transforming to sharpen in on a close up frame of a girl's school uniform and hijab (headscarf), the clothing that must be worn by all women in Iran. In this video, I am trying to show the contradictions existing in a simple cultural process.

For further information about it please visit:   http:www.infocusdialogue.com

My Last Exhibition,   Homa Art Gallery   8 -18December 2006   

www.homaartgallery.com

 A Group Exhibition in Canada

Wondering Masters

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

 

"White Mountain Academy of the Arts invites you to the first exhibition of the Wondering Masters series. Sam Shahsahabi curates this series of exhibitions in collaboration with international and national artists. The first exhibition is dedicated to Khosro Khosravi, Rosita Sharaf-Jahan, Fereydoon Omidi, Shahab Fotouhi, Neda Razavi, and Amirali Ghasemi six Iranian artists from Iran exhibiting in the multimedia area. The out comes are true masterpieces in the form of video arts and story telling projections which are committed to establishing a strong bond between the storyteller and the viewer."

Feb 3rd - Feb. 17th    

White Mountain Academy of the Arts

99 Spine Road, Elliot Lake, Ontario

For more information on Wondering Masters please contact:
Sam Shahsahabi
Faculty of Visual Arts, Painting
Curator/Director The James K. Bartleman Art Gallery WMAA
99 Spine Rd, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada P5A 3S9
Phone: 705 848-4347 Ext. 213 Fax: 705 848-0588

sshahsahabi@whitemountainacademy.edu

My Exhibition in Paris - Cité Internationationale des Arts - July 2005                

Paintings and video art were presented simultaneously in this exhibition.
Paintings were expressed in a new style. The Human Shapes were suspending in abstraction background. Works presented the concept of the ancients.
Frames of the presented film, Dizzy, were also shown in the exhibition.

http://www.citedesartsparis.net/

Video ZOOM - Iranian Video Artist - Rome - December 2004

Creator : Hamid Reza Severi & Babak Tavassoli, Tehran Museum of              Contemporary Art,& Mary Angela Schroth, Sala 1, Rome.
In the catalogue of exhibition has been mentioned that "the vacant port in the shore of life, in KHOSRO KHOSRAVI 's The Port (2004), describes    the border between the sea horizon and us, a port to observe things; a small hatch for us to glance through the life beyond. It is a metaphor on our history and time where borders Persia from the Northerners; and modern  Iranians are their successors. As in a painting, the port depicts our knowledge from time and positions, race and tribes, us and a vague future, presented with the kid, his dog, his return, the sea waves, his running into people in different social classes, and the epic poetry of Ferdowsi: all  are motifs of our spontaneous perceptions"    http://www.exibart.com/         

Beams of Blue - Iranian Video Art - Apeejay Media Gallery - Delhi India - October 2004

I participated in the exhibition with a video of mine, Port ,describes the border between  the sea horizon and us, a port to observe things ; a small hatch for us to glance through the life beyond. It is a metaphor on our history and time where borders Persia from the Northerners; and modern Iranians are their successors. As in a painting, the port depicts our knowledge from time and position, race and tribes, us and the epic poetry of Ferdowsi : all are motifs of our spontaneous perceptions.   www.apeejaymediagallery.com

Home Country Exhibitions

My Last Exhibition in Tehran - Iranian Artists Forum - Momayes Gallery - May 2005

In this exhibition I presented some paintings and the video "YOU & ME". Tthe composition of works of this exhibition were simple and limited but at the same time there were signs of history and tradition on them. The background of the paintings had a single solid color with a soft texture and small suspending shapes in a low relief.

A group exhibition of an old master painter of Iran" SIYAH GHALAM"

23 December - 3 January 2005 in Azad Art Gallery and another four gallery in Tehran. Group 30+ worked inspired by middle ages master of Iran "SIYAH GHALAM". People who has worked together in the Azad Art Gallery are: Khosro Khosravi, Rozita Sharafjahan, Ellahe Moghadammi and Rasoul Soltani. The work was drawing on a big paper all together.