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From Tehran to London: New Painting from Iran
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18 May - 18 June 2010
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Marzieh Bagheri |
Samira Eskandarfar |
Mohammad Mehdi Tabatabaie |
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Masoumeh Bakhtyari |
Khosro Khosravi |
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Azadeh Baluchi |
Hamid Sahihi |
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Masoumeh Bakhtyari’s
simple, almost graphic pictures are a response to
the political turmoil of last summer, exploring
political and social unease. Recent graduate,
Marzieh Bagheri has produced a
fascinating series of paintings that use cars and
women to lament the unrealised ambitions of
post-revolutionary Iran; and her fellow graduate
Azadeh Balouchi has produced
beautifully delicate images that examine the
position and identity of modern Iranian women. The
vividly coloured subjects of Samira
Eskandarfar include brief Farsi aphorisms
and Kahlo-esque imagery in work that questions the
depiction of women everywhere. Khosro
Khosravi paints dark and haunting tableaux
that paradoxically reveal his skill as a colourist
whilst referencing Iranian history and the dichotomy
between the public and private realms of its
society. Hamid Sahihi’s intriguing
paintings, with faceless, confined figures and
eerily idealised landscapes, are poetic metaphors
for a dreaming, dystopian society. Mohammad
Tabatabaie’s remarkable panels are a
personal diary of family life, commenting on the
tension of modernity and tradition in the Islamic
Republic...
The exhibition is curated by
David Gleeson and Aras Amiri in collaboration with
Azad Gallery in Tehran.
http://www.jillgeorgegallery.co.uk |
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Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Video Art in London:
"Facts and Illusions"
Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art,
London, 15-17th October 2009
Admission
Free
Opening times 10am – 8pm
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/aug/1241.html |
| A SYMPOSIUM IN SOUTH OF FRANCE "COULEURS
DE LA MEDITERRANEE" - CCAS TOURVES- MAY 9TH- 31TH 2009
Rudi Benetik/
Gabriela Medverova/ Autriche/
Reka Nemera/ Nike
Nagy/ Hongrie/
Nasser Azizi/
Shahpari Behzadi/ Pooneh Jafari/ Khosro
Khosravi/Ahmad Vakili/ Iran...
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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 |
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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 |
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Analyzing While Waiting (For
Time To Pass)
Susann
Wintsch – Swedish surveyor on art – has directed and
produced an electronic magazine concerned with contemporary
and emerging art in Tehran which concentrates predominantly
on an analytical stance in times of waiting.
TREIBSAND [VOLUME 01]
«Analyzing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)» sheds light on
contemporary and emerging art in Tehran, concentrating
predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting.
Waiting for the future may be expressed as yearning or
depression, or it may appear as a long, protracted period in
which past and present are analyzed in depth from a personal
and post-colonialist viewpoint. The concept has been drawn
up in close collaboration with Parastou Forouhar (Frankfurt
am Main/Tehran).
Artists
Iman Afsarian, Nazgol Ansarinia, Mehraneh Atashi, Mahmoud
Bakhshi-Moakhar, Shahrzad Darafsheh, Samira Eskandarfar,
Farhad Fozouni, Nina Ghaffari, Amirali Ghasemi, Barbad
Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Elahe Heidari,
Behnam Kamrani, Simin Keramati, Khosro Khosravi/Farid Jafari,
Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Morshedlou, Neda Razavipour /Shahab
Fotouhi, Hamed Sahihi, Rozita Sharaf Jahan, Jinoos
Taghizadeh, Sadegh Tirafkan
Statements
Iman Afsarian, artist and editor; Haleh Anvari, artist and
journalist; Khosrow Hassanzadeh, artist; Sohrab Mahdavi,
editor of TehranAvenue.com; Ruyin Pakbaz, art and art
history professor; Alireza Sami Azar, curator; Soghra Zare
Anaghezi, artist
Order
ISSN 1662-0577, 143 Min, PAL, 4:3, SFr. 60.–/Euro 40.–/USD
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More on
http://www.treibsand.ch/index.php?id=56 |
A Group Exhibition
in CanadaWondering
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,
OntarioFor 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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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.
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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.
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