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Iran & CO, a presentation by Amirali Ghasemi at Delfina Foundation

Iran & CO, by Amirali Ghasemi

IRAN&Co.
15. Oct – 15. Oct 10 Delfina Foundation

Free. Rsvp required at rsvp@delfinafoundation.com
18:00 – 19:00

Artist Amirali Ghasemi discusses Iran & CO, his ongoing curatorial project. Iran & CO includes an exhibition, a documentary and an archive project. The exhibition gathers a number of site and context specific commissions conceived by the newest generation of Iranian artists, who have all been invited to produce works outside of the gallery space.

The ‘documentary/film/installation’ Iran Beyond Borders (1960-2010) maps out the history of modern and contemporary art in Iran, from the late 50s to today. It aims to archive and review more than 100 Iranian art exhibitions in the last 10 years, and features interviews with key figures of the contemporary Iranian art scene (such as Khosrow Hassansadeh, Ghazel, Alireza Samiazar, Fereydoun Ave, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Barbad Golshiri and Rose Issa) on subjects including the impact of the market on artistic practices, the local in relation to the global, the politics of representation and identity. The film will be premiered in Bruges, Belgium, in October 2010.

Amirali Ghasemi was born in Tehran in 1980. He graduated in 2004 with a BA in graphic design from Central Tehran Azad University. In 1998, Ghasemi established Parkingallery, an independent project space in Tehran, and in 2002, Parkingallery.com, a virtual gallery, which has become an online platform for many young Iranian artists. He has shown his photography/videos/design works in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA, Australia, Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan. In addition, he has directed audiovisual projects with Iranian rock bands. 
As a curator, he has directed many exhibition projects for Parkingallery project space and other institutions. These have included Among Them: Deep Depression (2004), Transition (2005), Deeper Depression (2006), Lost in No Space (2006) and Limited Access (2007).

Iran & CO is a production of the Cultural Centre of Bruges, with the support of the Vlaamse Gemeenschap, and Parkingallery projects Tehran.

This talk is part of a series of events which focuses on emerging artistic networks and strategies in the youthful Iranian capital.

The Knowledge – Stop 2: Tehran. A series of events between 5 and 19 October 2010, at The Delfina Foundation. A journey through visual culture, one city at a time. After Damascus, our second stop will be Tehran. With contributions from Mahmoud Bakhshi, Amirali Ghasemi, Malu Halasa, Vali Mahlouji, James Neil and Solmaz Shahbazi.

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The Knowledge – Stop 2: Tehran at Delfina Foundation

The Knowledge – Stop 2: Tehran

The Knowledge Stop 2 - Tehran
Persepolis, Solmaz Shahbazi, production still, 2005

Series of events between 5 and 19 October 2010, at The Delfina Foundation.

A journey through visual culture, one city at a time. After Damascus, our second stop will be Tehran. This series of events focuses on emerging artistic networks and strategies in the youthful Iranian capital. With contributions from Amirali Ghasemi, Malu Halasa, Vali Mahlouji, Mahmoud Bakhshi, James Neil and Solmaz Shahbazi.

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Muniments: Iran – Works by Afshin Dehkordi

Muniments

Muniments: Iran - Works by Afshin Dehkordi
Afshin Dehkordi, "Salted Scenes I-VI." Giclée print on aluminium, 50.8 x 40.6 cm. Copyright Afshin Dehkordi. Courtesy of the artist.

1 October – 11 November 2010
Black Dog Publishing, 10A Acton Street, London – WC1X 9NG
T: + 44 (0) 207 713 5097
press@blackdogonline.com
Monday – Friday 12-5 pm
www.dehkordi.co.uk

Muniments is the first UK solo show of the photographic and text installation work of the Iranian born British artist Afshin Dehkordi. Focusing on the tangled and contradictory relationships between Iran and the West, Muniments peels open the subtle layers of public and private ownership in contemporary Iranian society.

The works display the underlying drama and construction of the ‘story,’ inherent within the language of journalism and an important concern within Muniments. A shift in awareness occurs as the mix between migration, architecture and borders reveals seductive social and personal ideals or longings that are sharply displaced from focus. The relationship to documentary and fiction is never quite separated in Muniments. We are shown through photographs and texts the special complexity of borders—that different kinds exist all around us and that the understanding of the border as a line or single place is perhaps obsolete.

The exhibition is set within two spaces that hold an ambiguous physical edge to the photographs and the texts. From the mountains of Tafresh, to the urban cityscapes of Tehran and to the salt desert of Daryache-Namak. Muninents interest lies in the politics of appearance, in terms of tracing experiences, memories and histories that are rendered largely invisible and how this invisibility occurs in reality.

This is the afterlife of Dehkordi’s migration between Iran and Britain and it calls attention to what extent that part of the journey is rendered visible and invisible. The exhibition appears to move between the surfaces of a personal use of utopia—not escapist or apolitical, but one where it becomes a critical force against the perceived reality that exists and the closed bi-cultural language of the past.

Dehkordi was born in Iran in 1975. He studied Mathematics at University College London and Economics at Harvard. He has exhibited internationally, and cultivates his artistic practice alongside award-winning work for the BBC. Dehkordi’s work is included in Black Dog Publishing’s Contemporary Art in The Middle East.

Human Emotion Project at Mohsen Art Gallery and Sazmanab Project

Human Emotion Project

Curated by Sohrab M. Kashani and Alison Williams

September 7th 2010 – 6:30 PM to 9 PM
Mohsen Art Gallery
No.42, East Mina Blvd., Farzan Street, Nadji Street, Zafar, Tehran, Iran

September 11th 2010 – 6:30 PM to 9 PM (Private screening)
Sazmanab Project Gallery

Screening of international video artworks by artists:
48073 (Netherlands), Hakan Akcura (Turkey/Sweden), Amina Bech (Norway), German Britch (Argentina), Michael Chang (Denmark), Glenn Church (USA), Michael Douglas Hawk and Lizet Benrey (Germany/Mexico), Anthony Elliot (UK), Danny Germansen and Joshua Sandler (Denmark/USA), Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Neil Howe (Australia), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Mads Lungdahl (Denmark), Adamo Macri (Canada), Manfred Marburger (UK), Bill Millett (UK), Jerry King Musser (USA), Behjat Omer (UK/Kurdistan), Elena Skoko (Italy), Edwin Stolk (Netherlands) and Anders Weberg (Sweden).
6:45 PM – 8 PM

Screening of Iranian video artworks including works by artists:
Negar Behbahani, Varesh Darvish, Samira Eskandarfar, Maryam Fakhimi, Amirali Ghasemi, Ghazaleh Hedayat, M. R. Heydary, Behnam Kamrani, Simin Keramati, Khosro Khosravi, Farzad Kohan, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Bijan Moosavi, Neda Razavipoor, Hamed Sahihi and Rosita Sharafjahan.
8:15 PM – 9:15 PM

Daricheh-Nokhost Contemporary art Sanandaj, Kurdestan

Daricheh-Nokhost
Group Contemporary Art Exhibition

Daricheh- Nokhost
Daricheh- Nokhost Poster designed by Foad Sharifi

Shilan Borhani | Shamim Borhani | Mikael Rahmani | Fariborz Rahimi | Arash Zaman | Sarah Saedinejad | Shima Farhadi | Zaniyar Lotfi

Posters Designed by Foad Sharifi

9/11/2010 to 9/22/2010

16:00 to 20:00
Address: No 23  Golbarg Alley, Abidar Ave. Sanandaj, Iran

Belgium INC* at Mohsen Art Gallery August 28th,2010

Parkingallery.com in collaboration with Mohsen Gallery, Tehran Presents
Belgium INC*

Belgium Inc at Mohsen Art Gallery

Video presentation
Curated by Michel Dewilde
Pieter Geenen | Jasper Rigole | Nel Aerts | Kelly Schacht | Bram De Jonghe | Rozemarijn Spilliaert | Daniel Dewaele
Saturday 28th of August 2010, 7 pm
Mohsen Art Gallery
Address: No. 42, East Mina Blvd, Farzan Street, Naji Street, Zafar, Tehran
Telephone: 22255354

Maneli Aygani’s Video Installation at Azad Gallery (Aug 5th,2010)

Video Stills from O fable, they are the fodder Who have blocked the way to the garden
Maneli Aygani Video Stills from O fable, They ... 3-channel video for 3 projections, DVD, color, sound, 4’ 34”

Maneli Aygani (Tehran 1981) is one of the promising artist of her generation, based in Tehran and Minnesota. Don’t miss her latest video work O Fable, they are the fodder, who have blocked, the way to garden is a 3-channel video for 3 projections, and will be on view for a day at Azad Art Gallery on 5th of August 2010.

O fable, they are the fodder, Who have blocked the way to the garden

Where and how did we grow up? How have we learned to be afraid of each other? How have we enjoyed the approval of others for what we really aren’t? And how long those “others” and this “enjoyment” last?

Censorship is internalized. We become experts at it, as if it were an inseparable part of our lives. It is precisely then that we loose the ability to distinguish what the I really wants.

All the rigid concepts like Good and Evil form dissonances between our mental universe and the world around us; finally, while we understand that which we desire, we ruthlessly start a process of self-flagellation, because if our desire refuses to abide by our stock of knowledge, it will appear impudent and unusual. Thus, what is ravaged is the I, and at times, when we overcome this false I through continuous inner struggle, and stand our ground for that which we desire, the main tragedy then takes place. The I that harms the world is often more unpleasant than the I that harms itself. Then, this evil I will remain and a feeling of guilt.

To what extent does this feeling of guilt, rather than our acumen, determines our actions? In this vicious circle cruelty comes to us from others, from us to the self, and from us to others. We are all engaged in hurting ourselves and hurting others. And, the moment that this cruelty becomes commonplace, a falsehood replaces truth, and the I gets lost in the middle of truth and falsehood and cannot distinguish between the two. This is a what-do-I-want that is lost.

And the I gives up.

SAROSEDA Workshops/Live Performances at Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran

SAROSEDA
Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances

Saroseda.net
Saroseda | Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances

Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran. Monday August 2nd -6th, 2010.

SAROSEDA is a creative initiative which is trying to make new sonic and visual projects by using robotic technology , interactive environments and A/V programming languages.
Saroseda by different pose to mainstream tries to reach new forms in Iranian Maghami and Radif music with the use of western technology instead of western art (Fusion).Saroseda is trying to introduce and expand the new methods in Audio and Visual Processing to create interactive projects and reach a new way to collaborate between Visual Art, Sound Installations and Time-Based Media. Saroseda is going to feature computer usage as an instrument in these performances to jam and improvise alongside acoustic players and focus on workshops of demonstrating live audio/video processing with language programming softwares.

SAROSEDA is Sponsored by Mohsen art Gallery and realized in collaboration with parkingallery and Arman Studio.

And After All We Are Just Ordinary People by Amin Davaie

Don’t miss Amin Davaie’s Photo Installation this week at Mohsen Art Gallery, opened yesterday is an impressive installation of 30 Digital frames bearing a portrait each and their gaze to the camera says a thousand words silently, the sound track is composed by Nima Pourkarimi and doubles the impact with cleverness and cruelty at the same time. The show is on view till 21 July. 2010, 4 – 8 pm  and there is an artist talk is scheduled for  Mon. 19th of July. 2010 From 6 to 8 pm.

Amin Davaie, photo installation 2010, Mohsen Art Gallery

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