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Remote Homecoming is a platform designed to bring videos made by Iranians across the border remotely back home, and to bridge the gap between so called “inside” and “outside”, while acknowledging.these terms are fading rather quickly or at least are changing tremendously in the 21st century, still there are numerous obstacles to communicate between the scenes and there is a lot to be learnt. Chapter one of remote homecoming is a selection of short films, videos and performances from a wide range of Iranian artists from emerging to established and tries to show a gradient of practices across various disciplines and mediums, while focusing on professional use of sound, visuals and performance as its point of departure.

12 Videos, short Films and performances by

Sona Safaei  | Bahar Samadi | Nooshin Farhid | Naghmeh Abbasi | Golnaz Payani | Sima Khatami | Mohammad Abbasi | Fereydoun Ave |Roozbeh Rashidi | Anahita Hekmat

Total running time : 53 min

Poster designed by Amirali Ghasemi with an illustration by Sam Keshmiri and typography by Mohammad Khodashenas.

Special thanks to Afshin Dehkordi, Natasha Caruana, Arash Khakpour,  and kind people at Studio Strike and Bread and Roses

Live Acoustic Duet : Pouya Mahmoodi & Armin Firouzabadi at 8 pm

Pouya Mahmoodi is an Iranian guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is a pioneer of Iranian world fusion style, mixing Iranian traditional music with western music styles such as jazz, blues, and rock. In 2008, he released his debut solo album, Mehr, which features drummer Billy Cobham.

Armin Firouzabadi is an Iranian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has studied contemporary music and performance at Brunel university and he is recording his solo album, Music divided by 2, in the meantime.

Pouya and Armin are going to perform a few tracks from their albums, Mehr and Barad (with lyrics in Persian) and Music divided by 2 (with lyrics in English) and the concert also includes covers by some of their classic favorites including Jeff Buckley and Radiohead.

The event is free and the good news is there are limited number of Mehr, the album by Pouya Mahmoodi, available to be purchased at the venue. We encourage you to support the band.

8 pm at Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street,
LONDON SW4-6DX

13 X 18 – Portrait at Gallery Etemad

 

Group Exhibition 13×18 is curated by Iman Safaei
Mehrdad Afsari | Mojtaba Amini | Hooyar Asadian | Azarakhsh Asgari | Amirhossein Bayani | Ala Dehghan | Safaeddin Emami | Shima Esfandiari | Nazanin Etminan | Ali Ettehad | Negar Farajiani | Arash Fayez | Laleh Firoozi | Farhad Fozouni | Shadi Ghadirian | Amirali Ghasemi | Mohammad Ghazali | Ghazaleh Hedayat | Peyman Hooshmandzadeh | Amirpasha Hooshivar | Farid Jafari |  Mona Janmohammadi | Mahboubeh Karamli | Babak Kazemi | Behdad Lahooti | Meysam Mahfouz | Omid Massoumi | Omid Nemalhabib | Saeed Nodehi | Raheleh Nouravar | Nastaran Safaei | Hootan Salamat | Melika Sarraf | Peyman Shafieezadeh | Mohammadreza Shahrokhinejad | Bahar Taheri | Morteza Talebi | Nikoo Tarkhani | Shabahang Tayyari | Ramtin Zad | Ali Zanjani
41 artists are showing their visual interpretation of portrait in ( almost!) 13×18 cm, The show includes variable mediums, from drawing to photography and from video artworks to sculptural intervetions, We guess the gallery must be very crowded and full both of people and works,so don’t miss the chance, we heard that prices are held in a moderate range to keep it affordable for almost any body who likes to buy a piece of art. There is a catalouge (an image book to be more precise) published featuring a work in each page without so much information and text which leave us curious to see more at the exhibition.  13×18 opens tomorrow, 4th March 2011, 3 to 8 pm and it will continue till 15th March 2011,  from 3 to 8 pm.Gallery Etemad No 4 . Boukan St., Sadeghi-e-Ghomi St., Yasser Sq ., Bahonar Ave. Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98 21 22724442  www.­galleryetemad.­com

My Super Hero at Aaran art Gallery
(& Morano Kiang Gallery,  LA)

Opening simultaneously in Los Angeles and Tehran . March 4th at Aaran Gallery Tehran
And  March 5th  2011 at Morano Kiang Gallery Los Angeles. Curated by Nazila Noebashri
Sara Abbasian | Maryam Amini | Mojtaba Amini( pictured above) | Amir Ali Bashiri | Nasim Davari | Ala Dehghan | Ala Ebtekar | Shahram Entekhabi | Arash Fayez | Siamak Filizadeh | Farhad Fouzoni | Barbad Golshiri | Arash Hanaei | Elika Hedayat | Sahand Hesamyan | Ali Reza Jodey | Ghazal Khatibi | Abbas Kowsari | Farsad Labbauf | Behdad Lahooti | Amitis Motevalli |  Hadi Nasiri | Nazanin Pouyandeh | Hamed Rashtian | Neda Razavipour | Behrang Samadzadeghan | Baktash Sarang Javanbakht | Arash Sedaghatkish | Jinoos Taghizadeh | Newsha Tavakolian | Morteza Zahedi

We have to admit this was one of the strangest text we’ve read about an International contemporary art show, at the same time we are astonished by the all-star crew featured in this exhibition, so  for not ruining the fun of it. We just quote the very last sentences from the catalog :

…Much like Epic Heroes they venture from the world of common day in to the  unknown , facing adversaries that try to defeat them in their  journey .They illustrate traits , perform deeds and exemplify certain morals , always perfecting the art of resistance. Let us hope that the Decisive Victory shall be theirs’.

AAran Art Gallery. Tehran. No 12 dey street. North Kheradmand ave. Tel +9821 88829086- 9 www.aarangallery.com218 West 3rd Street, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Tel : 213.628-8208  |  fax : 213.628.8207www.moronokiang.com

Sky & Earth

Henna Art gallery will exhibit a Sculpture collection by Ghodratollah Agheli curated by Mohammad Bagher Ziai , the catalog aslo features a text by Behnam Kamrani, and the poster (above) and invitation card is designed by Mohammad Reza Abdolali. Opening is set on March 4th 2011, 4-8 pm , and the show will be on view till March 18th 2011. The gallery is closed on Thursdays. Henna Art gallery: No 19, East Biglarpour st, Gheytarieh Ave. Tel/Fax: +98-21-22587879 www.hennaartgallery.com