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One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran
One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

Intersection for the art, San Francisco

One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

A project organized by Taraneh Hemami & Ghazaleh Hedayat
November 4, 2009 – January 23, 2010
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays by appointment
Wednesdays–Saturdays, 12-5PM FREE
Opening Reception
Wednesday November 4, 7-9PM FREE
Gallery closed December 20 through January 4

Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran – Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi – alongside new work by San Francisco-based artist Taraneh Hemami, this exhibition compiles a collective narrative of everyday Tehran, the largest city in the Middle East and the 16th most populated city in the world with close to 8 million residents.  Representing the current unpredictability of each day in Tehran and also the hope that comes from imagining a better future, the artists chronicle narratives of place and time, demystifying life in a country that has been misunderstood and maligned for decades.

Sat Nov 21, 2009 2PM Readings by The Association of Iranian American Writers
Sat Jan 16, 2010 7PM Artists Talk

Graphic Design by Navid Ghaem Maghami

“Photographic Practice” at Silkroad Gallery

Celebrating International Children’s Day
“Photographic Practice”

"Photographic Practice" at Silkroad Gallery
"Photographic Practice" at Silkroad Gallery

Poster by Farhad Fozouni

The Experience of Afghan Immigrant Girls
Nadia Parvani, Anita Sedighi, Rita Sedighi,
Shamaiel Sedighi, Arezu Abbasi, Parvin Abbasi,
Parvaneh Nazari, Mojgan Yaqoubi, Masoumeh Yaqoubi
at
Silk Road Gallery
Friday October 9th, 2009
4:00 to 8:00 PM
10 to 21 Oct. 2009
Sat. to Wed. from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Thurs. 5:00 to 8:00 PM

103, Lavasani (Farmanieh) St. Tehran, Iran
tel:+98-21-22727010
fax:+98-21-22727011
www.silkroadphoto.com
info@silkroadphoto.com

Re-assemblage at Assar Gallery

Siavash Naghshbandi - Kiosk Series 2008
Siavash Naghshbandi - Kiosk Series 2008

RE ASSEMBLAGE

Curated By Vahid Sharifian
A group photography and painting exhibition by Afshin Chizari, Hadi Fallah-pisheh, Siavash Naghshbandi, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Ali Zanjani, Hoda Kashiha and Shabahang Tayyari.

“The commonalities of the artists featured here, reference a period and situation from which they have taken influence. they are all 22 or 23 years old, they have all experienced childhood –the period in which their personalities took shape– in the post-war years, they have a newer attitude and ideology compared to my generation, the period of their youth took place during the second half of the 1990’s and their art is inspired from the events and conditions which formed during this time and took shape in the first decade of the 21st century.
These artists experienced the aftermath of war and not war itself. As such their work is more introversive than the frankness and violent absoluteness of the war years and Iran of the 1980’s.”
Vahid Sharifian, from catalog of the exhibition

Assar Art Gallery
16 Barforoushan Alley, Iranshahr St. Karimkhan Zand Str. 15836 Tehran – Iran
Tel: +98 21 88 32 66 89
www.assarartgallery.com

Persianissimo; An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition

Persianissimo; An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition
Persianissimo; An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition

An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition

On the Occasion of the 16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition 2009

Persianissimo; An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition

Curated by Majid Abbasi, 28 posters by 28 Iranian designers
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art
September 27 – December 22, 2009
Opening Reception, September 30, 7 – 9 p.m.

Majid Abbasi . Reza Abedini . Farzad Adibi . Pouya Ahmadi . Tahamtan Aminian . Homa Delvarai
Maryam Enayati . Vahid Erfanian . Siamak Feilizadeh . Farhad Fozouni . Amirali Ghasemi
Pedram Harby . Zeynab Izadyar . Behrad Javanbakht . Aria Kasaei . Morteza Mahallati . Saed Meshki
Alireza Mostafazadeh . Masoud Nejabati . Kourosh Parsanejad . Peyman Pourhossein . Iman Raad
Mehdi Saeedi . Iman Safai . Bijan Sayfouri . Firouz Shafei . Kambiz Shafei . Parisa Tashakori

201 S College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
Tel (970) 482-2787
www.fcmoca.org

Honor Laureate Exhibition & Lecture of the 16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition 2009

Persian Variations: An Exhibition of Majid Abbasi’s Book Cover & Poster Designs

Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center
October 2 – December 11, 2009
Opening Reception, October 1, 2009 – 6-9 p.m.
http://www.curfman.colostate.edu/schedule.aspx

“The Originality & Graphic Design Today”

Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts
September 30, 5 p.m.
http://events.colostate.edu/event_view.asp?ID=7&EID=27464&GW=1

Facts and Illusions in london

video still by Hamed Sahihi
video still by Hamed Sahihi

 

Facts and Illusions

An Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Video Art in London:
Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London,
15-17th October 2009
Admission Free
Opening times 10am – 8pm

Magic of Persia is presenting a pioneering and unique exhibition of video work by 14 Iranian artists, in the RCA’s Henry Moore Gallery. Curated by Dr. Sami Azar, former director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the show is the first time that contemporary Iranian video artists have been shown on such a scale in London. Established names such as Farideh Lashai and Avish Khebrezadeh, will be displayed alongside younger video artists, providing a great opportunity to view the diversity of current Iranian video art.

The 14 Video Artists are:

Mania Akbari
Parastoo Forouhar
Shahab Fotouhi
Rodin Hamidi
Behnam Kamrani
Simin Keramati
Avish Khebrezadeh
Khosro Khosravi
Farideh Lashai
Mandana Moghadam
Malekeh Nayiny
Neda Razavipour
Hamid Sahihi
Rozita Sharafjahan

[…]

Hilger Brot Kunsthalle presents The Promise of Loss.

Mandana Moghaddam - installation view Sara's Paradise, 2009
Mandana Moghaddam - installation view Sara's Paradise, 2009

Hilger Brot Kunsthalle presents The Promise of Loss.

The Promise of Loss.
A Contemporary Index of Iran.
Curator: Shaheen Merali

Living as we all do in an imperfect world, where the remainders of the past fall away or return to haunt our creative contemporaries, the exhibition is a consolidation of many dashed hopes, a desire to build a shrine as well as to plant trees in the campus condemned to destruction. The artists enable both a reading of the situation and encouragement to cross the distance where the bitterness of loss reigns within the national moral.

The exhibition The Promise of Loss is organized to mine the huge ground of Iran. The connection of expertise to experience, the rhythm of its measures and the constancy of the artistic gaze into its shadows have made listening to the artists’ interpretations more urgent.

Mandana Moghaddam’s installation Sara’s Paradise (2009) is an ode to the time-honored place in the cemetery of Behesht e Zahra, Tehran, where the fate of the martyrs from the Iraq-Iran war that claimed over 800,000 young lives are commemorated. The place, as seen in the installation, is a gory fountain of red water continuously bleeding into the world. The source of the blood is the martyrs and their families who encouraged holy participation to the bitter end, lured by a promise of a place in paradise.

The exhibition will be curated in five sections:
a) Beyond Iran and near Tehran: Peyman Hooshmandzadeh and Mandana Moghaddam.
b) Graphic, unfolding tributaries: Parastou Forouhar, Sara Rahbar and Neda Razavipour.
c) Responses to legacies: Samira Abbassy, Babak Golkar, Amin Nourani, Behrang Samadzadegan and Jinoos Taghizadeh.
d) The main-melancholia: Iman Afsarian, Shahram Entekhabi, Abbas Kowsari and Rozita Sharafjahan.
e) Re-imaging the revolution: Masoumeh Bakhtiyari, Asgar/Gabriel, Shadi Ghadirian and Leila Pazooki.
(Text by Shaheen Merali).

For further information please contact the gallery: ernst.hilger@hilger.at

Risk Of Color at Aaran Gallery

Exhibition at Aaran Gallery
Exhibition at Aaran Gallery

Risk Of Color
Opening at Aaran Gallery Tehran, Monday, 7th September.

Sculptures by :
Maryam Amini – Hell Berent – Fariba Farghadani – Shantia Zakerameli And Masoud Mousavizade.
The Dutch – Iranian Ceramic Project ( ekwc ) 2008.

In 2004 China Celebrated the production of the first porcelain piece about 1000 years ago. In the same year, The European Ceramic Work Center ( ekwc) started a series of Annual projects that focused on ceramic and collaborated with other countries such as China, Senegal, Morocco, and Brazil.
Then came the turn for Iran, with its long-standing tradition of ceramic and architecture.
A group of Iranian Artists was chosen by Hella Berent, herself a visual artist and a participant of previous projects at ekwc , to participate in a 3 months residency program in the Netherlands.
The wonderful pieces that were created during this program are now in display at Aaran Gallery.

Aaran Art Gallery. Tehran.
No 12 dey street. North Kheradmand ave.
Tel +9821 88829086- 9