Parkingallery Projects | Tehran

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
Add: No.8, 5th Alley,Kooh-e Noor st.,Motahhari Ave. Tehran, Iran
Tel :+9821 88731403

Saroseda will be performing a new series of Audiovisual performances
at Aun Gallery on Tuesday Nov 23rd and  Wednesday 24th 2010.
Don’t miss it if you are in Town and here is the program :

Nov. 23rd :
5-6 pm
Hesam Ohadi – Laptop / Quartz Composer
Siavash Abdi – Tombak
Amir Bahador Ashrafzadeh – VDMX/Modul8

7-8 pm
Arash Salehi – Laptop / Lemur
Ali Ettehad – Avaz
Amir Bahador Ashrafzadeh – Modul8
Saman Tehrani – Processing ( programing language )

November 24th :
5-6pm
Hootan Farzadpoor – Laptop
Mojtaba Alanjari – Divan
Arash Razzazian – Resolume
Aidin Zolghadr – Processing ( programing language )

7-8pm
Arash Salehi – Laptop / Lemur
Golnoosh Salehi – Tar
Arash Razzazian – Resolume

Contemporary Notes
A drawing show, curated by Vahid Sharifian

Image: Drawing by Setareh Shahbazi

Nazgol Ansarinia, Kamrooz Aram, Ali Banisadr, Ala Dehghan, Tala Madani, Arash Sedaghat kish & Setareh Shahbazi.
opens on Friday, 19^th November, 2010 from 5-9 PM. The exhibition will continue through Thursday, 2^ndDecember, 2010 and visting hours are Sunday – Thursday 11 AM-8 PM. not that the  gallery is closed on Friday, 26^th November, 2010

Contemporary Notes is, more than anything, a critique of situation. It questions the situation we are in, while honestly depicting that which we could be in; and that situation is all about art; it is between what is real and what seems real. Crises, their mere existence and sheer diversity, distort thought and obscure reflection making mental isolation and idled creativity seem justified. Meanwhile, deceptive hands of seeming power, encouragingly and outwardly compassionately, attune the artist’s mind from a state of ambitiousness to idleness. Those hands could extend from the social status quo, or represent the interests of those who recklessly drag Middle Eastern art to a local market. The situation in the Middle East is such that instability in the social, economic and political realms causes artists not to reflect on their own world but become tools to – at best – analyze the status quo – in the simplest way possible – and represent it – in a general light. And in the third world, when this exercise in telling the told and stating the obvious takes on the form of photography, or painting or video, it is called art. There is nothing wrong with protesting art but things start to get suspicious when the art leaves the artist behind to turn into a banal manifesto for the political self-expression of people who in these situations merely play the role of a morally sound disgruntled citizen/artist. In these circumstances, rather than reflecting on taste and emotion, and thinking the situation anew, the mind becomes a paragraph of political and social memoire that is framed and sold.

In any case, Contemporary Notes is a group with no political posing and posturing whose significance is not because of the position they take, nor because they express their position, but because of the tone with which they express their situation and play a role, however small, in the international art scene. For they express their thoughts and reflections (or their day-to-day art) in the language and the mood of today’s art. In this exhibition, we are saying that an artist can say new things through the most basic media and in the simplest form regardless of the place from which or in which he or she speaks. All of these seven young artists express themselves unbounded by the place they belong and seek not to market themselves but to be the artists they truly are. So without intellectual self-expression, they see their instinct as the source of the need to think and reflect. And they think according to instinct in a way that taste and emotion, and not their situation (as Iranians) make their work appealing not to the controversies of their times, but to their day.

The idea of this exhibition materialized around last January and it would not have been possible without the help of friends. I wish to thank Afarin Neysari, Jason Reza’ian, Lombard Freid Gallery, Omid Tehrani and Mahdis Keshavarz. And I especially wish to thank my friends Kamruz Aram, Ali Bani-Sadr, Tala Madani, Setareh Shahbazi, Ala Dehghan, Arash Sedaghatkish and Nazgol Ansari-Nia and their galleries for trusting me and leaving their works in my possession to exhibit.

Vahid Sharifian – November 2010

Assar Art Gallery
16 Barforoushan Alley
Iranshahr St. Karimkhan Zand Str.
15836 Tehran – Iran
T/F: +98 21 22 60 72 84
www.assarartgallery.com