SAROSEDA
Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances

PATTERNS
Nazgol Ansarinia’s Solo Show at 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.

TWELVE CUBED
Aun Art Gallery
12 artists, 12 Chairs and 12 Cubes
Nazgol Ansarinia,Behrou Bagheri, Ala Dehghan, Amirali Ghasemi,
Mohamad Hamzeh, Farid Jahangir, Bahman Kiarostami, Shohreh Mehran,
Farshid Mesghali, Houman Mortazavi, Atila Pesyani, Myriam Quiel
Opening: Friday 21 May 2010, from 16:00 to 20:00
End: 26 May 2010, 20:00
Visiting Hours Saturday to Wednesday 11:00 to 20:00

12³ is an unusual art project involving a relentless organizer, a furniture designer, a pioneering group of artists and a galley-as-playground. Each artist was given a chair and a cube to work on, and challenged to think of them as blank canvases. Individually, the pieces reflect each artist’s take on the challenge; together, they tell a short story of a time-specific cooperation. Trans-generational – from celebrated figures to the new generation of Iranian artists – the project reveals the creativity that emerges when art is looked at as a game.
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Obligatory Military Service
Mohsen Art Gallery
curated by Farid Jafari Samarghandi
Opening Friday 14th May 2010 from 4 to 8 pm.
The exhibition continues till Wed. 26thMay.
Visting Hours: 4 to 8 pm

Discussion Panel: Mon. 17th May 2010 from 6 to 8 pm

Performances titled ‘Public Duty’ by Amir Mobed and ‘ Feast ‘ by Ali Zanjani on Friday 14th May 2010.

Artists:, Ali Ettehad, Saba Alizadeh, Mehrdad Afsari, Pooya Abbasian, Amir-hossein Bayani, Safeddin Emami, Babak Kazemi , Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Shaadi Ghadirian, KLT Group , Afra Nobahar, Farrokh Norooni, Amir Mobed, Meysam Mahfouz, Solmaz Panahi, Homayoun Sirizi, Rasul Soltani, Peyman Shafieezadeh, Shamim Shahramnia, Iman Safaei, Nastaran Safaei, Ali Zanjani, Amir- hossein Zanjani
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Rang online magazine is holding an exhibition of Iranian graphic designers’ artworks named “A colorful day” on the occasion of “world Graphic’s Day”, in continuation of its outside the scope of web activities.
In this exhibition which starts on May 8 at the Iranian Artists’ Forum, Momayez gallery, a selection of 42 graphic designers’ artworks from different generations will be on display. Also a catalogue containing the artworks presented in this exhibition, has been published by Roshanan publications which will be released and distributed on the opening day of this event .
“A colorful day” exhibition will be held until May 13.
Viewers can visit the exhibition every day from 10 am to 8pm.
This event is being held and organized in cooperation with Avajang ICT Group, Maryam Soft, Nafar group, Datis print and graphics and Roshanan publications.
Cassra Abedini,Majid abbasi, Morteza Akouchakian, Farzad Adibi, Tahamtan Aminian, Reza Alavi, Mostafa Asadollahi, Shahab Ashtari, Alireza Anoushfar, Ali Afsarpour, Ali Bakhshi, Sadegh Barirani, ,Homa Delvaray, Vahid Erfanian, Maryam Enayati, Siavash Fani, Farhad Fozouni, Amir ali Ghasemi, Amir hossein ghouchibeyk, Ebrahim Haghighi, Behrad Javanbakht, Damoon khanjanzadeh, Mohammad khoda shenas , Arya kasaei, Houman Mortazavi, Tahereh Mohebi Taban, Morteza Mahalati, Saed Meshki, Alireza Mostafazadeh, Leila Miri, Hadi Nasiri, Mani Nilchiani, Kourosh Parsa nejad, Maryam Palizgir, Peyman Pourhossein, Parisa Tashakori, Shahab Tondar, Arash Tanhayi, Pedram harbi, Ehsan Rezvani, Mehdi saeedi, Ghobad shiva, Iman Safaei, Mehran Zamani

The exhibition’s Poster design by: Behrad Javanbakht, Shahab Ashtari

Much Love From Bandar

Audiovisual Performance by Arash Salehi

Candlelight and Its Side Effects

Interactive installation by Payman Abbasin

Wednesday 5th of May,Kashan

in collaboration with Patil Magazine, YAZZDA and Parkingallery
Poster Designed by Amir Moghtadaei
Stay Tuned for The review on Parkingallery.

Safe to Fight

Text and Curator: Shaheen Merali

When is it safe to fight? The probabilities of such an undertaking are of course calculated, albeit by intelligent guesses and measures guided by speculations of the fight in terms of the enemy’s strength and the forces needed to defend.
Defence and offense, the twin co-evils of all invasive desires, have been with us for millennia, making an odyssey of long drawn out atrocities- wherein heroes and patriotism are borne from the deaths and violation of others.
History, when read between wars, in the so-called peaceful eras, often suggests peace as the outcome of fighting. I wonder if such peace can be deemed to be the result of a process of distillation, of land drenched in innocent blood, of hope drained from our future and of the likelihood of more to come.
Komu’s work has always been a striking and constant reflection on the contemporary condition where so much remains at stake, here, after many thousands of years of fear and heartbreak as our heritage, we remain ready to move into another ‘situation’; readily abandoning our wit and knowledge and surrendering to the forces that break our bonds and our lives. Komu, like many of his contemporaries, remains perplexed by our lack of conviction to resist war and to think only in terms of defense and offense.

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Some quick snapshots from the Opening, there is more to see and you still can catch it before its finishes on 16th of April
Thirteen Artists for the New Day: Group Painting
Opening Friday 13 Farvardin (2 April), 11-20 hrs. Curated by Fereydoun Ave,
Thru 27 Farvardin (16 April),16-20 hrs.

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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