Dear Friends’ of Parkingallery
Parkingallery is gonna be 12 years old in this month, we are working on a book and a the good news is we are going to open our project space hopefully in Nov this year…It had been a real pleasure to be with you all these years and we believe we could never survive ups and downs and difficult days without your attention and support.We want to thank you for your presence and your participations in various projects we accomplished together these years.Now its the time for your kind feedbacks, notes, photo/video/sound documentations, memories, comments and even complains as we are going to include them in our book, so if you give us the pleasure to share them, it would be very appreciated.You can write them as comments or mail them to info[at]parkingallery[dot]com. Thanks in advance and looking forward to hear from you soon.
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.
DIGI ZOORKHOONEH”
Video installation by Semco Salehi
Opening night : Friday, July 30th 2010,4pm to 8 pm
Exhibition will be continued till 13th August 2010. 3pm to 7 pm
The Gallery is closed on Thursday
Digi-zoorkhaneh Installation view at Siin Gallery, TehranDigi-zoorkhaneh Installation view at Siin Gallery, Tehran
SAROSEDA
Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances
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.
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
Opening: Friday 16 July 2010 – 4 to 8 p.m 17 to 26 July 2010 Sat. to Wed., 11 a.m to 7 p.mThur. 5 to 8 p.m Open discussion with artists: Thursday 22 July 2010, at 6 p.m Continue reading New Folder 01 at Silkroad Gallery
Newbookz our publishing partner has just released the digital version of LIMITED ACCESS II ( english and Persian ) on issuu.com so now you can flip through it online. enjoy!
Payman Abbasian, Martin Shamounpour and Amirali Ghasemi are off to berlin to take part in Circus Charivari‘s Freakshow, to realize some performances, Interactive pieces and sound projects in Berlin. Check some of the images here ….
PATTERNS
Nazgol Ansarinia’s Solo Show at Aun Art Gallery
Patterns by Nazgol Ansarinia, Aun Art Gallery
Fri, 28 May 2010 – Fri, 18 Jun 2010
Click here to see the works on Aun Art Gallery webiste
The exhibition “Patterns” consists of works from two series Ansarinia has been working on for the past three years; Nonflammable, Non-stick, Non-stain from 2009-2010 and Patterns from 2007-2009. These works are shown together because, according to the artist, there are enough similarities and differences between them that makes them complimentary to each other.
In a way both series are based on finding ways to insert information and further meaning onto objects already familiar and perhaps overlooked. The work series Patterns uses the Persian carpet as an everyday object to do so. This collection of drawings inspired by the familiar images and experiences of life in Iran plays with the visual potentials of this wold-recognised object/image. While the main subjects are contemporary, the drawings retain the structure of carpets and combine new images with the original patterns. These new patterns are therefore familiar in terms of their form but convey very different meanings to that of their origin.
In Nonflammable, Non-stick, Non-stain, the objects used and the subject matter are again both based on mundanities, but this time the method for their combination is less apparent, or in other words it is more abstract or coded. The plastic sofreh or table cloth is an unremarkable object found in most Iranian homes but sofreh in its literal sense is also a metaphor for one’s economic status in Iranian culture. Playing with the literal meaning and its actual functionality, sofreh is used as a medium to carry data about the repetitious subject of daily expenses. Visually manipulating the original decorative patterns of the plastic tablecloths, statistical reports of daily expenses are inserted onto these everyday used objects. The method of building a system by relating numerical values to visuals is not unlike the way visuals are used in representing statistics in different fields of science. However the purpose of these visual charts is not to simplify data, but for them to morph into common patterns.
