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Made in Iran

Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street, London
23 June - 4 July 2009

Made in Iran

© Arash Hanaei, City Land Escapes 1(2008-2009)

Made in Iran is a group show, providing a rare chance to see some of the most exciting work by young contemporary artists currently living and working in the modern Islamic Republic of Iran. Opening at Asia House on 23rd June, the exhibition celebrates the vibrancy of this new generation of artists, revealing how they reconcile their artistic practice with working in a post-revolutionary landscape dominated by a complex political and religious hegemony.

The artists featured in Made in Iran have developed their own visual practices in response to their experience of life in Tehran - a city where 70% of the population are under 35. Working in diverse media from photography to digital drawing, the exhibition highlights how they and their peers attempt to circumvent authority by evolving their own strategies of self expression. Although life is full of constraints, there is a desire to live in Tehran and, through their art, create a bearable alternative whilst examining issues of tradition and modernity, the public and the private experience of daily life, nostalgia and belonging.

Artists exhibiting:
Nazgol Ansarinia
Shirin Aliabadi
Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
Behrouz Rae
Arash Hanaei
Vahid Sharifian
Simin Keramati

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Tags: Arash Hanaei, Asia House, Behrouz Rae, Made in Iran, Nazgol Ansarinia, new art world, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Shirin Aliabadi, Simin Keramati, Vahid Sharifian

Art, Film, installation, photography, sculpture

Iran Inside Out

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26 June - 5 September 2009
Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Pooneh Maghazehe, Hell's Puerto Rico Performance Still, Digital C-print 2008 copyright artist and courtesy Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery

The Chelsea Art Museum’s summer show ‘Iran Inside Out’ is part of the museum’s goal to house within its premises a permanent foundation dedicated to Iranian Art and Culture.

The exhibition features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the Diaspora. The result is a multifarious portrait of 56 contemporary Iranian artists challenging the conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art.

In Iran Inside Out, 210 works comprising painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation come together, in a rare moment which allows visitors an intimate look into the people, both inside and outside a country that is more complex than images of veiled women, worn out calligraphy and what a handful of other emblematic images would suggest.

Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Iran Inside Out is an examination of the means through which a young generation of artists is reconciling the daily implications of cultural and geographical distances with the search for individual artistic expression. The exhibition offers an insight into the artistic energy of a culture that is constantly evolving as Iranians living both in and out of the country, come of age living. While half of these artists such as Vahid Sharifian, Barbad Golshiri, Farideh Lashai and Jinoos Taghizadeh reside in Iran, the other half including artists such as Shirin Neshat, Shahram Entekhabi, Mitra Tabrizian and Shoja Azari has been interspersed in the Diaspora.

Artists participating include Ala Ebtekar, Negar Ahkami, Nicky Nodjoumi, Parastou Forouhar, Pooneh Maghazehe, Pouran Jinchi, Ramin Haerizadeh, Roya Akhavan, Samira Abbasy, Sara Rahbar, Shahram Entekhabi, Shahram Karimi, Shirin Neshat, Shiva Ahmadi, Shoja Azari, Barbad Golshiri, Bita Feyyazi, Daryoush Gharahzad, Farhad Moshiri, Golnaz Fathi, Shirin Fakhim and Farideh Lashai.

Art, installation

Selseleh/Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art

06.20.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Until August 20, 2009
LTMH Gallery
9 East 78th Street at Madison Avenue, Third Floor, New York NY 10075

selseleh/zelzeleh

The Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery is presents Selseleh/Zelzeleh: Movers & Shakers in Contemporary Iranian Art, comprising more than 50 works from 40 artists, Selseleh/Zelzeleh (loosely translated as Tradition/Tremor) seeks to illuminate the depth and richness of Iranian art from the post WWII generation to the present. A number of works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and video will be on view for the first time in the U.S.

The featured artists in Selseleh/Zelzeleh – some living in Iran, some living internationally – are all Iranian or of Iranian descent and share a common ground due to their rich culture and heritage. These artists include: Samira Abbassy, Negar Ahkami, Shiva Ahmadi, Roya Akhavan, Massoud Arabshahi, Kamrooz Aram, Shoja Azari & Shahram Karimi, Ali Chitsaz, Alireza Dayani, Reza Derakshani, Ala Ebtekar, Hossein Edalatkhah, Mohammad Ehsai, Roya Farassat, Mehdi Farhadian, Golnaz Fathi, Bita Fayyazi, Shadi Ghadirian, Daryoush Gharahzad, Ramin Haerizadeh, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Bahman Jalali, Pouran Jinchi, YZ Kami, Farideh Lashai, Tala Madani, Pooneh Maghazehe, Mehdi Mirbagheri, Ardeshir Mohassess, Farhad Moshiri, Shirin Neshat, Nicky Nodjoumi, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Sohrab Sepehri, Sadegh Tabrizi, Parviz Tanavoli, Sadegh Tirafkan, Darius Yektai, and Charles Hossein Zenderoudi. Affirming a continuous dialogue that exists between the generations, these artists explore a multiplicity of divergences from the past that are equally grounded in a respect for cultural continuity as well as in the freshness of youthful innovation. While borrowing from tradition, they have developed their own highly unique artistic language resulting in work that is bold, emotionally charged, and, at times, politically and socially motivated.

Find Out More at LTMH Gallery Website

Tags: Ala Ebtekar, Ali Chitsaz, Alireza Dayani, Ardeshir Mohassess, Bahman Jalali, Bita Fayyazi, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Darius Yektai, Daryoush Gharahzad, Farhad Moshiri, Farideh Lashai, golnaz fathi, Hossein Edalatkhah, Kamrooz Aram, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Massoud Arabshahi, Mehdi Farhadian, Mehdi Mirbagheri, Mohammad Ehsai, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Negar Ahkami, nicky nodjoumi, Parviz Tanavoli, Pooneh Maghazehe, Pouran Jinchi, Ramin Haerizadeh, Reza Derakshani, Roya Akhavan, Roya Farassat, Sadegh Tabrizi, sadegh tirafkan, Samira Abbassy, Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Shiva Ahmadi, Shoja Azari-Shahram Karimi, Sohrab Sepehri, Tala Madani, y.z. kami

Applied Arts, Art, photography, sculpture

L’Iran sans frontière / Iran Without Borders

06.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

8th June - 25 July 2009
Galerie Almine Rech, 19 Rue Saintonge F - 75003, Paris

mehdi farhadian

Curated by Negui & Kamran Diba, the exhibition brings together Iranian contemporary artists including Morteza Ahmadvand, Mojeh Asefja, Shoja Azari-Shahram Karimi, Mostafa Dashti, Reza Derakshani, Mehdi Farhadian, Amir Mobed, Mandana Moghadam and Mitra Tabrizian.

www.galeriealminerech.com

Tags: Almine, Amir Mobed, Galerie Almine Rech, Iran Without Borders, L'Iran sans frontière, Mandana Moghadam and Mitra Tabrizian., Mehdi Farhadian, Mojeh Asefja, Morteza Ahmadvand, Mostafa Dashti, Negui & Kamran Diba, paris, Reza Derakshani, Shoja Azari-Shahram Karimi

Art, Film

Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin

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June 26-23 July 2009
BFI Southbank, Barbican Centre and selected cinemas nationwide

Shirin

Kiarostami’s latest film observes an audience of over 100 women, including Juliette Binoche, deeply engrossed in watching a film we never see. These time-based portraits however play out a narrative through the emotions and expressions that flick across their faces bathed in the glow of the cinema screen and accompanied by the narration, dramatic dialogue, romantic, doom-laden score, and richly evocative sound effects.

The film-within-the film we do not see is about Shirin - the heroine of a 12th-century Persian poem, a princess courted by two men.

As with much of Kiarostami’s work the film is richly layered, drawing out meaning through a simple but highly effective setup.

Kiarostami notes in a recent interview about Shirin “It was a response to an old temptation, a very old one dating back to the days when I had become a director. It was all about watching the audiences…I had a very radical feeling and wanted to watch the audience in private. To me watching people is more interesting than anything else…It is a deep and bold gaze; similar to that of children in the cradle, quite straightforward. There are moments in this film which are just like a gift to me. It is a blessing to be able to look at someone so closely to detect feelings on their faces.”

For a list of cinemas showing Shirin, visit BFI website

Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Barbican, bfi, binoche, cinema, Film, kiarostami, portraits, portraiture, Shirin

Art

The Third Line Summer Show (Doha)

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June 15 - September 10, 2009
(closed from 1 August – 15 August)
Waqif Art Center, Souq Waqif, Doha, Qatar

The Third Line Gallery presents its first group show at their new Doha Gallery and features three Iranian artists.

Iranian artist Abbas Akhavan’s small-scale graphite finger-drawings entitled Neighborhood Fires explore the potential for emotional intensity to arise within seemingly generic places. His larger works are drawn from email exchanges that have transformed from basic sentences to a play of words and typographical design.

Raised in California, Ala Ebtekar’s interest in his Iranian roots was sparked by a trip to Tehran at age 19, sowing the seed to explore his heritage through Americanised eyes. This selection of works by Ebtekar, bridges historical, geographical and cultural spaces by reconciling urban culture with Persian motifs, producing a multi-faceted visual identity.

Laleh Khorramian bases her creative process in the assemblage of graphics, painting, drawing and collage. Khorramian depicts the spectacle of unfolding human tragi-comedies in picturesque, often abstract and deeply spatial settings.

Tags: Abbas Akhavan, Ala Ebtekar, Laleh Khorramian, The Third Line

Art, installation, photography

In a Different Light: Three Artists from Iran

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In a Different Light: Three Artists from Iran
25 June - 11 July 2009
Osbourne Samuel, 23a Burton Street, London, W1

Endless Series No 5, 2009 by Sadegh Tirafkan

Sadegh Tirafkan, Morteza Darehbaghi and Behrouz Rae, claimed to be “three of the important new wave of contemporary artists from Iran” have been asked by the Osbourne Samuel Gallery to respond to one of three exhibition spaces in the gallery with new installations.

The exhibition is in association with Janet Rady Fine Art & Neda Dana-Haeri.

In a Different Light: Three Artists from Iran

Tags: Behrouz Rae, Janet Rady Fine Art, morteza darehbaghi, Neda Dana-Haeri, Osbourne Samuel, sadegh tirafkan

Applied Arts, Art

Bita Ghezelayagh: Felt Memories

05.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Private view: 21 May, 6-8 PM
Exhibition: 21 May-20 June, Tuesday-Saturday, 12pm-6pm
Rose Issa
269 Kensington High Street
London W8 6NA

Bita Ghezelayagh’s first solo exhibition in europe features a collection of felt costumes, made for display only, which combine talismanic symbols, silk screen printing and embroidery.

Previously an architect and art director of several films, Ghezelayagh started working with felt in 2004. She feels that it embodies qualities such as simplicity, heft and resilience, which she notices are often disregarded in Iran’s march to modernity.

“Making my first designs, and travelling around Iran searching for the best techniques, i came across a display of felt shepherds’ capes in a provincial bazaar. They hung inertly, heavily, a reminder of earthy tradition amid the gaudy consumer goods, and were a poignant validation of Joseph Beuys’ elevation of felt into art.”

Like the well-known iranian artists from the Saqqaqaneh movement of iranian Pop art in the 1950s, such as Hossein Zenderoudi and Parviz Tanavoli, Bita Ghezelayagh has sought a new visual language that embraces tradition and modernity through a unique combination of ancient signs, symbols and calligraphy with conceptual art.

Rose Issa Gallery

Tags: Applied Arts, Bita Ghezelayagh, craft, felt, rose issa, Saqqaqaneh

Art, photography

Words Are Diamonds

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Behrouz Rae September - October, 2009
Group Show November - January, 2010
Laleh Hune Galerie
Picassoplatz 4
CH - 4052 Basel

Untitled from BIMESTER Words Are Diamonds brings together works by Sylvie Fleury, Behrouz Rae, Beat Lippert, Philippe Zumstein, Crystel Ceresa, Ed Ruscha, Cris Faria, Tom Sachs and Marc Rembold, whom currently living and working in Switzerland, United States and Iran.

Presented by Laleh June Galerie, Words Are Diamonds explores “writings/text” in a poetic, pop and humorous context, across different media.

The exhibition features Iranian artist Behrouz Rae. Rae uses drawings, photographs and videos to articulate autobiographical intimacies and will exhibit Coming soon 1979 (2008) and Unopened Letter (2009), a series of letters that the artist has received from his mother.

Find out more at lalehjune.com

Tags: , Behrouz Rae, Laleh June Galerie, text, Words Are Diamonds, writing

Art, Film, photography

Abbas Kiarostami: A Photographic Overture

05.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

26-30 May
PurdyHicks
65 Hopton Street,
London, SE1 9GZ

Untitled from Roads by Abbas Kiarostami

A short exhibition of photography and film by Abbas Kiarostami, launched to coincide with the opening of his production of Mozart’s Così fan Tutte at English National Opera.

The exhibition opens with a private view on 26th May and will focus on selected photographs from three series – Roads, Rain and Snow White.

Around the time of the Iranian Revolution, a time of personal crisis, Kiarostami started to develop his intense interest in still photographs, alongside his interest in moving images. In his photographic work he seeks to distill an image to its barest elements. He has spoken of photography as a purer medium than film, since it is unburdened by narrative and the need to entertain.

The show will also feature the short, rarely seen, film Sleepers, first seen at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Visit the Candlestar Gallery for more information

Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Film, london, photography

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