Parkingallery Projects | Tehran
Independent art space / Tehran, Iran
what’s on view in Tehran’s museums(!), galleries, venues and …
Audiovisual Performance by Arash Salehi
Interactive installation by Payman Abbasin
Wednesday 5th of May,Kashan
in collaboration with Patil Magazine, YAZZDA and Parkingallery
Poster Designed by Amir Moghtadaei
Stay Tuned for The review on Parkingallery.
Text and Curator: Shaheen Merali
When is it safe to fight? The probabilities of such an undertaking are of course calculated, albeit by intelligent guesses and measures guided by speculations of the fight in terms of the enemy’s strength and the forces needed to defend.
Defence and offense, the twin co-evils of all invasive desires, have been with us for millennia, making an odyssey of long drawn out atrocities- wherein heroes and patriotism are borne from the deaths and violation of others.
History, when read between wars, in the so-called peaceful eras, often suggests peace as the outcome of fighting. I wonder if such peace can be deemed to be the result of a process of distillation, of land drenched in innocent blood, of hope drained from our future and of the likelihood of more to come.
Komu’s work has always been a striking and constant reflection on the contemporary condition where so much remains at stake, here, after many thousands of years of fear and heartbreak as our heritage, we remain ready to move into another ‘situation’; readily abandoning our wit and knowledge and surrendering to the forces that break our bonds and our lives. Komu, like many of his contemporaries, remains perplexed by our lack of conviction to resist war and to think only in terms of defense and offense.
Continue reading Safe to Light | Riyas Komu at Azad Art Gallery
Some quick snapshots from the Opening, there is more to see and you still can catch it before its finishes on 16th of April
Thirteen Artists for the New Day: Group Painting
Opening Friday 13 Farvardin (2 April), 11-20 hrs. Curated by Fereydoun Ave,
Thru 27 Farvardin (16 April),16-20 hrs.
Shirin Sabahi’s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and private industries.
In the video installation Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009*, through cameraman’s gaze in his films and his vague remembrances of his trips thirty years after, Sabahi takes the audience back to Iran of the ‘60s and the ‘70s where she herself has no physical experience of. Activating this non-lived past by means of someone else’s recollections, Sabahi introduces Edman’s arbitrary narration to this history which her generation carries variety of it through different modes of transference; from parents and education to media.
In the photo series Untitled (00’00’’) still images of Edman’s films from Iran and Sweden are presented as double-exposed photographs. In these photographs, Edman’s visual documentation of the dual locations he lived and worked in points at the current condition of human mobility and displacement.
Shirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran) received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Pavilhão 28, Lisbon and rum46, Århus among others.
* Only one of the 2-channel video projections of Swede Home will be on display at Gallery No. 6.
Gallery No. 6
No 6, 18th st, Kheradmand-e Shomali, Tehran
March 5 – 10, 2010
Sat – Wed 15:00 – 19:00
Tel: +9821 88346029
“Yesterday Came Suddenly” opens at Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran on Friday 29th of Jan, 2010.
The Drawings and installation by German Artist Sonya Schönberger is curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran and it’s the 1st exhibition of a series of solo shows by international artists in Iran organized by parkingallery, in various galleries of Tehran. There is a small catalog will be launched in the occasion of the exhibition by newbookz, and a limited edition poster printed in silkscreen designed by Shahab Tondar.
The Exhibition will continue till feb 4th, 2010 , 5-9 pm. The artist herself will be present in the gallery at the opening. further info on the time and date of the artist talk and presentation will be announced soon.
Atbin Art Gallery founded in 2000 in Tehran by an art lover family and is dedicated to supporting and introducing young artists and new talents.
Continue reading Sonya Schönberger at Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran
Date-painting, an exhibition of Painting/Installation by Nima Esmailpour just opened last Friday, Jan 22nd 2010. The 2nd show of the brand new Mohsen Gallery is dedicated to a young artist, 1985 born Nima Esmailpour previously collaborated with parkingallery in International Roaming Biennial of Tehran and in Limited Access II. You can catch the artist, performing in one of the rooms from 23rd to 25th of Jan.
The catalog of the exhibition features a text by Omid Mehregan in the ocassion of the exhibition, he will speak to public on Monday 25th Jan. 5pm. The Exhibition will be on view till 27th of Jan and bisting hours are from 4-8.
If you wanna get there, without a car, might have to walk for a while in the rich Tehrani zafar destrict, starting from Modaress Zafar Juction. here is a hint to a shortcut instead of walking in to Dastgerdi (Zafar) St. walk along the Moaddress Highway eastern sidewalk toward south and without giving yourself a hard time you will find a narrow alley which lead you to Eastern Mina Street and Number is 42 and by now you can see the yellow sign of the gallery on your right and ther you are. You can have a drink and maybe a snack in the small cafe teria located in the backyard,after seeing some art, Enjoy! Continue reading on Nima Esmailpour’s Date-Painting
نگارستــــــــان آن
AUN GALLERY
گشایش: آدینه 2 بهمن 1388 – ساعت 16 تا 20نمایشگاه تا 27 بهمن برقرار است
زمان بازدید: یکشنبه تا آدینه – ساعت 11 الی 20
Opening: Friday 22 January 2010 at 16:00
Exhibition runs until 16 February 2010
Visiting hours: Sunday to Friday 11:00 to 20:00
40 تهران. ونک. خیابان سئول. شماره ,
no. 40, Seoul Ave., Vanak, Tehran
Tel:+982188603050 Fax:982188603051
poster designed by Iman raad
www.bitaworks.com
www.aungallery.com
SOT and ICY, two of our favorite graffiti artists from Tabriz. They are showing thier recent STENCIL artworks at Mehrin Gallery,Tehran. The exhibition is on from 8th to 13th of January, 2010,
and opening hours are from 15:00 until 19:00.
Wanna see of their stuff, check out their video Kids Love Peace
from ICY And SOT on Vimeo.
Mehrin art Gallery
No.33 – 2nd 12th Metri – Golestan 20th Metri Alikhani –
South of Vanak park – Tehran –
tell : +9821 8824 0946 & +9821 8803 1652
Samira Eskandarfar, Nima Esmailpour, Nikoo Tarkhani, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Farid Jafari Samarghandi, Melodi Hoseynzadeh, Ahmad Zolfagharian, Behrouz Rae, Behrang Samadzadegan, Hamed Sahihi, Samira Alikhandzadeh, Amirali Ghasemi, Babak Kazemi, Sohrab M. Kashani, Behnam Kamrani, Katayoun Karami, Barbad Golshiri
Music by Kaveh Kateb
A new Art Gallery opens in Tehran
Mohsen Art Gallery is hosting its 1st exhibition with “The Other”, the show is curated by Ali Ettehad Born in Sari, 1983 is one of the artists/writers who is joining the growing numbers of curators contributing to Tehran’s contemporary Art scene.Also Aydin Aghdashloo and Hamid Severi will talk as guest speakers for occasion of the exhibition at the opening.
Mohsen Art Gallery named after Mohsen rasoulov, the late Iranian curator, filmmaker and photographer lost his life in a tragical plane crash at the age of 25.
Opening : Friday 8 January 2010 from 5 to 9 pm.
The exhibition will be on view till 20th of Jan, 2010.
Continue reading The Other; Group Show at Mohsen Art Gallery