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Friday, February the 4th, SIIN Art Gallery will host “I RAN, THEREFORE I AM”, an Exhibition by Nima Esmailpour Exhibition will last until February 14, 2011. SIIN gallery is a new gallery with an interesting portfolio within its few months of existence,   which shows various mediums  in its well designed venue, located in Shahrak-e Gharb, North West of Tehran, which despite it’s large population lacks the cultural infrastructure it deserves, here is the address at No 16  Twelfth St, South Piroozan Ave, Hormozan Ave, Shahrak Gharb,Tehran and visiting hours is Daily 3 to 7 pm except on Thursdays.

Although the text/letter featured in the press release by Homayoun Sirizi doesn’t say much about the works neither the poster itself but positively makes us curious to see the show:

To Nima

Those days you did not even exist in your mother’s womb, leave alone knowing about Benjamin or

coming to streets or reading aloud street history book by heart….

History had no time for your birth. Those days, nobody had time to hesitate a little. You

had to escape from bullets, to run from one street to another, so that the bullet darting faster than

you lost its way in the alleys and hit a wall or someone’s chest. If you even climbed up a tree you

were not a hundred-years-old crow. Remember it was under the same tree in Bagh-e-Shah that they

chopped heads off or hung the Sheik from the same branches of the same tree which withered so

fast in August to make you hesitate for a short time, a very short time….

But all those years had turned into a piece of stone in the hands of people and it was thrown

towards a future blocked by the hangman. Ten, twenty meters further as you bend to pick a stone

from the pavement, a crow flies away: by instinct, like a man who runs away when he hears the

sound of a bullet, no matter where and when it is fired, whether it is at the start of a marathon or at

the end of a peaceful demonstration… You just run… which direction? Which end line? Running after

which prize makes you drag history behind yourself?

In which day of which month? Is year anything more than one point increase in a number? It

is apparent from the futility of the calendar made by you that you have engaged in making history.

As if you are able to write while running.

The earth intends to continue its circular path forever.

The mildness of spring and winter revolution is only good for earthworms and radishes.

Homayoun Sirizi

Jan. 2011

We are happy to let you know that Parkingallery website has been featured in 22nd issue of Neshan magazine in an article showcasing a selection of Iranian websites, Sasan Bahzadi in his bilingual review “Design with objectives” writes :

… Designing websites, even the advanced ones, has long been prevalent in our country but just recently has taken on a more professional appearance and evolved from being exhibitory to being more applicable.
The reason for this advancement is the new collaboration between web designers and programmers. In the past, aesthetics were the only key aspect to web design but with the Internet’s gradual change (from a mere visual medium to a multi-media network) other qualities such as site efficiency, innovation and dynamism have become more prominent in prompting designers and programmers for teamwork.
In the last few years in Iran, by comparing the quality of multimedia, website development with global advancement and development of the Internet, though remarkable, but far from maturity.
The following introduced websites were selected based on 4 qualities: design, innovation, applicability and content attribution.

Behzadi also briefly reviews Parkingallery website along other outstanding examples like the website of Aun Gallery , to a more minimal informative one page portal Tehraner and a conceptual web project like Bloob :

The Parkingallery website is a showcase to introduce young Iranian artists. Simple design and thorough contents have turned this site into a reference source to assess the pulse of unconventional artists. The site’s English-only version indicates its owners’ tendency to introduce artists to galleries abroad. Personal web logs giving it an informative nature inspire the design. The existing links on the right side of every page provides easy navigation to different sections such as projects, exhibitions and the artist’ sites. Users can write their opinion about every project but unfortunately only in English. Parkingallery, with its simple but beautiful design and up-to-date materials, is worth spending some time browsing through.

Browse the website of Neshan magazine here for more info and here to read the full article.

Selfdom / a personal project

21-26 jan 2011, 4-8 pm

I sing because — I am a singer. But I use you for it because I — need ears
Max Stirner

It is more likely that an artist knows his own selfdom more than anybody else. such a vast realm – in his own presumption- which is the centre of the world and affected by the outside world and everything around it. This is the most vulnerable place of all, since the beginning of mankind and will be so, till the end of time.

Probably, there is no king as conscious to his kingdom as him and in the same time, there is no place as unknown as the labyrinth of ego. It is a place that only one person knows its every sheltered spot and obscure corner and it’s him who can let the others inside and show them as much of his selfdom as he likes them to see.

In this exhibition, we decide to show you some of this realm, this is one of those corners that we thought is in need of eyes, to be seen by others. It was an opportunity to show some of the highlights of our minds, a personal project to show our selfdom.

Yashar Samimi Mofakham- Curator
2010

Haftsamar Art Gallery
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