Osservatorio Gualino, a center for contemporary photography in Turin in collaboration with Consorzio Villa Gualino will hold a slide show/conference program on Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei.
Mohammadreza Mirzaei (born. 1986), is a photographer working and living in Tehran, whose work has been featured at Dubai’s The Empty Quarter Gallery, Tehran’s Seyhoun Gallery and Mall Galleries in London, among other galleries.
Michael Kenna has acclaimed his photos as a comment or exploration of the nature of human condition, and Mitra Tabrizian has admired the surreal quality and the sense of isolation in his works.
UN IRANIANO A TORINO
Slide Show e conferenza di Mohammadreza Mirzaei
A cura di Fulvio Bortolozzo
Friday November 27, 2009 – 18:00
Osservatorio Gualino
Villa Gualino
viale Settimio Severo 63, 10133 Torino http://www.osservatoriogualino.net/ Tel. 348.774.7360
we are very happy to present you “Candlelight And Its Side Effects”
documentation of the new Interactive Video Installation by Payman Abbasian for parkingallery’s Limited Access II.
This is how Payman himself describes his works:
I’ve been analyzing the video from a web-cam to find the highest concentration of brightness, then I use it as an starting point to apply/add computer generated fluid waves and particles to it as if it’s coming out of the fire, I found it an interesting idea to create an live interactive experience, using processing as its programming environment that’s why I decided to called it like this.
Sona Safaei (Tehran/1981) our talented young friend in Ontario,Canada has just shown her video titled ALEF in Parkingallery’s Limited Access II, here comes one of her latest experiments in stop motion animation, it’s a preview and she is looking for collaborators interested in sound design/ composing music to complete the work, so if you are up for it, leave us a comment below. you can see more works by Sona, here
Video Screening | Experimental Sound | Performance
SAM KESHMIRI has made us so excited by his Beautiful poster for LIMITED ACCESS II, and we are waiting for more surprises as he accepted to design the 1st Parkingallery’s CD which is a selection of experimental audio works from tehran and elsewhere, he is an illustrator, desinger and he’s busy with numerous projects from websites to tee shirts and ….
like the poster for previous edition of limited access (2007), this is a repeating poster as well sized 50×70, and in order to be adjustable for small space VS big walls, an sticker has been designed to be placed on it freely so the result may vary from A3 to 100×70 or even bigger!
Sleepy an installation by Farid Jafari Samarghandi
SLEEPY an Installation by Farid Jaffari Samarghandi opens tomorrow at Azad Art gallery, Jaffari (Tehran/1980) has shown his videos works extensively in Tehran in number of Solo shows as well as abroad, originally studied fine art at Soureh University,Tehran, with focus of painting, started experimenting with video around 1998-1999. and beside his own practice has been generously contributing to the new wave of video art in Iran, collaborating with numerous artists on their video works…
This time he takes us to a journey of another kind by his multimedia installation, this is how Hamed Sahihi describes it:
Sleeping is a significant part of our life without a doubt, and there is no wonder that it has an outlined presence in a large number of Art history pages specially the ones which refer to the beginning of the 20th century. It’s an experience much closer to temporary death, other than living, making almost one/third of life disappear in an unknown, dark and speechless tunnel. Some often recall the time we spend asleep, with such murky words; also a number of artists who have been inspired and worked on “sleeping” as their theme, did the same.
Sleeping is such a mysterious journey; it rarely happens that an artist bases his works on such a topic, taking the act of sleeping as a ordinary human activity. And here is where exactly Farid Jafari Samarghandi’s “Sleepy” series differs from the rest, as he changes his point of view from someone who is sleeping, to an observer which looks at his sleeping subjects – mainly chosen from the members of his family and close friends – capturing intimate moments in an unusual place and time: having a short nap on a sofa or resting in the afternoon with just a pillow lying on the living room’s carpet. This often appears as a station between two states of being awake, in a way it resembles (sleeping as ) a natural and necessary phenomenon rather than a melancholic-schizophrenic trip. Dealing the subject in a parallel experience of pleasure and anxiety, peeping someone sleeping can be threatening and scary from the sleeping person’s point of view and in the other hand watching a living person with its gentle movements might make the observer unable to track its liveliness and terrified his/her sleeping fellow might be dead. Therefore the clever choice of the medium – photography and video – makes the journey more attractive – photographs of standstill subjects beside moving images in the course of time.
Hamed Sahihi
Translated into English by Amirali Ghasemi
Opening: Friday 22nd of Oct,2009. 4-8 pm
23rd-28th Oct, 2009 , Visting Hours Saturday to Wednesday, 4-8 pm
Azad Art Gallery
No 5, Salmas Square, Golha Square, Tehran
Tel: + 9821 88008676
