Newbokz has published a special calendar for persian new year!
Happy new Iranian year…
50×70 cm and 500 edition
1389 calendar by newbokz
Aklil-al-Molook By Pooya Abbasian & Farshid Monfared
Exhibition Review:
on Aklil-al-Molook By Pooya Abbasian & Farshid Monfared
by Amirali Ghasemi
Mohsen Art Gallery was a host to an unusual show in late Feb, Aklil-al-Molook by By Pooya Abbasian & Farshid Monfared was featuring artworks applied on different materials and mediums from porcelain plates to multi layer vinyl stickers on transparent Plexiglas presented in box like frames and a large scale out door paste up paper installed in the yard of the gallery. The combination of their rich design and graphics with cheesy and kitsch essence of what is being made as Persian miniature these days, create a cleverly recycled and retouched fresh animated look. Observing the Iranian pop culture and using it as a lab for creating new works is always a great job, but something seemed to be missing to some degree was contribution of these experiment to a public and their specific taste which was referred to. Presenting such a work in a up town gallery in such a neighbourhood doesn’t really communicate which the street people to prefers such miniatures with such figures, flowers, decorations and kitsch golden frames. We hope to see another street art project by them soon somewhere in Tehran, even with a hit an go kind of attitude which most likely is the only possible tactic in todays’s tehran strict mode of surveillance and control.
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Happy Nowrouz
Parkingallery wishes you a successful year ahead
Happy Nowrouz Iranian New Year.
Someone Was Here | Shirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6 | Tehran
Someone Was Here
Shirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6
Opening: Friday, March 5, 17:00 – 20:00
Shirin Sabahi’s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and private industries.
In the video installation Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009*, through cameraman’s gaze in his films and his vague remembrances of his trips thirty years after, Sabahi takes the audience back to Iran of the ‘60s and the ‘70s where she herself has no physical experience of. Activating this non-lived past by means of someone else’s recollections, Sabahi introduces Edman’s arbitrary narration to this history which her generation carries variety of it through different modes of transference; from parents and education to media.
In the photo series Untitled (00’00’’) still images of Edman’s films from Iran and Sweden are presented as double-exposed photographs. In these photographs, Edman’s visual documentation of the dual locations he lived and worked in points at the current condition of human mobility and displacement.
Shirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran) received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Pavilhão 28, Lisbon and rum46, Århus among others.
* Only one of the 2-channel video projections of Swede Home will be on display at Gallery No. 6.
Gallery No. 6
No 6, 18th st, Kheradmand-e Shomali, Tehran
March 5 – 10, 2010
Sat – Wed 15:00 – 19:00
Tel: +9821 88346029
IRAN Vs. (No.3) Screening at PiST///
The 3rd session of Iran Etc. (Iran Vs.) guided by Amirali Ghasemi took place yesterday 24th of Feb 2010 at PiST///.
The program includes works by Iranian artists and Filmmaker living in Iran and abroad.
Sona Safaie (IR/CA) | Alef | 2009 | 2’36”
Tala Madani (US/IR/NL) | The Apple Tree | 2008 | 2’36”
Nassrin Nasser (UK/IR) | Exile Paranoia | 2009 | 10’30”
Elham Doust Haghighi (IR) | One Stupid Idea | 5’22” | 2007-2008
Samira Eskandarfar (IR) | Comode | 2008 | 5’22”
Payam Mofidi (FR/IR)| SHÂER KOSHI (Poeticide) | 2009 | 11′
Parisa Yousof Doust (NL/IR) | A Story of the Flying Carpet in the City of Zwolle | 2005 | 8′
Lenka Klimesava, Ekmel Ertan and Payman Abbasian at amberPlatform
amberPlatform opens
A new place on the intersection of art and technology, amberPlatform, will open its doors to artists and art followers on February 26th, 2010 at 7.30pm.
amberPlatform aims to become a permenant center for research, production and sharing of art and technology and will provide a space for seminars, workshops, artist presentations, exhibitions, and performances. The center also initiated a residency program, which will compose a backdrop for international communion and partnerships with projects of cultural exchange and collaboration including artists and initiatives which do not partake on the widespread artistic circulation networks.
BIS – Body Process Arts Association is an Istanbul based initiative that aims to explore artistic forms of expression at the conjuction of the body and the digital process. amberPlatform is established by BIS in partnership with Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. BIS has been organizing amberFestival and amberConference, also established amberNetwork, an international network of people who work on Arts and Technology, and continues to work on the field.
amberPlatform will be opening on February 26th, 2010 at 7 : 30 pm with a performance by Korhan Erel and Sevket Akinci and will be hosting its first exhibition in the following week which will include Candle Lights and Its Side Effects by Payman Abbasian, Future Kiss by Lenka Klimesava and Blow In by Ekmel Ertan.
Touka Neyestani and Mohammadali Baniasadi at Maah-e Mehr Gallery
Auto-Portraits by Touka Neyestani and Mohammad Ali Baniassadai
A new poster by Alireza Anoushfar for two of our favorite artists whom they tought us alot through their wonderful and strong body of works ,
catch their exhibıtion at Maah-e Mehr Gallery,
27 Bahman (16 February) Thru 6 Esfand (25 February), 14-20 hrs.
and good news for poster lovers….
There will be a limited edition of 60 posters numbered & signed by both of the artists available for free at the finissage event.
Mah-e Mehr Gallery
Vali-e Asr Ave, Opposite Mellat Park, Kajabadi St, No 12. Website: www.mahe-mehr.com
22051786
AMBIGUITY: Misha Mirmomen and Navid Sanati at Multimedia Room
AMBIGUITY
کژتابی
نمایشگاه عکس های میشامیرمومن- نوید صنعتی- 30 بهمن تا 7 اسفند – ساعت 16 تا 20
اتاق مالتی مدیا گالری محسن
خ ظفر – خ ناجی – ک نوربخش بلوار مینای شرقی – پ 42
Mohsen Gallery, multimedia room, NO.24, eastern mina blvd., Zafar st.
19Feb-24Feb –
visiting hour 16-20
Two young artists are showing their photographs in this exhibition. Misha.mirmomen and Navid.sanati are introducing themselves by some speechless portraits in their first group exhibition. The portraits represent a piece of Man everyday life the man who just can’t imagine living such a life.
The exhibition which starts on 19 Feb includes some black and white photos (75.75 printed on luster photo paper) and it is on view till 26 Feb.
He writes, I write, we record, record what? We don’t know; we don’t know what is going on and maybe what goes on is not important at all. I only see what is there and that is what counts in this suffocating darkness. Tomorrow, when we grow up, we shall learn how to get used to life. It is up to us whether to use this disgusting learnt fact or not… If the problem of being or not being is to be solved somehow, it is easier for me to live. Everybody knows how to be not and yet, they keep on doing it. It is stupid not to be.
When my eyes are opened, it takes a while before I remember why I have to open them here. In the morning, we take out of the bed bodies which have lost themselves. We sit in front of teachers and professors and we are busy till night with our studies and simple dreams. We photograph life this way and the three of us are pleased! Although every other line of notebook pages are bound to infected wounds, I understand one must learn all this simplicity and we love pages in general although it is as though no page understands nothing.
Sometimes I wish to hug the world, to squeeze the shit out of it. Have you ever noticed the extent of your power? What would happen if the world resembled for a second our portraits?
Homa Delvaray’s posters in Shiraz
Sigh to moon, moon to sigh
Homa Delvaray’s poster exhibition recently opened on 26th of Jan in Shiraz Gallery.
The exhibition which was on view till 4th of Feb. featured 38 posters by Delvaray (born 1980) in the recent years of her professional career.
A catalog has been published in the occasion of the show with a selection of 16 posters with an introduction by Morteza Mahalati.
He writes : “…Her distinguished style are influenced by a variety of sources from Tabriz School Miniature heritage and recent European image making traditions from Art nouveau to Pop art.”
For more images of the show you can follow the links to RANG MAGAZINE’s review (in Persian) and Rene Wanner’s Poster Page (in English)
Homa Delvaray is also a member/editor of Dabireh a Collective of young Iranian graphic designers who share a passion for calligraphy and typography. We had the pleasure to work with her as a participant in few of our projects, including Deep Depression and The Roaming Biennial of Tehran in Berlin, and as a designer for one of our joint projects happening at Azad Art Gallery (poster below).
Yesterday Came Suddenly: New Exhibition Catalog from Newbookz
Yesterday Came Suddenly (EN & FA) : The Drawings and installation by German Artist Sonya Schönberger is curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran and it’s the 1st exhibition of a series of solo shows by international artists in Iran organized by parkingallery, in various galleries of Tehran.
The catalog is designed and published by NewBookz Studio: Sam Keshmir (Cover Illustration) & Shahab Tondar (Design), in 24 Pages,14 x 21 cm,b/w Offset and in Edition of 500, January 2010.
For a preview of the inside pages, and more information on how to get yourself a copy, click here
Enjoy!