1389 Calendar by Newbookz , Illustration by Sam Keshmiri

Newbokz has published a special calendar for persian new year!
Happy new Iranian year…
50×70 cm and 500 edition

Exhibition Review:
on Aklil-al-Molook By Pooya Abbasian & Farshid Monfared
by Amirali Ghasemi

Aklil-al-Molook By Poota Abbasian & Farshid Monfared

Aklil-al-Molook by Pooya Abbasian and Farshid Monfared

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.

Aklil-al-Molook By Pooya Abbasian & Farshid Monfared

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Illustration by Mojtaba Adibi

Parkingallery wishes you a successful year ahead
Happy Nowrouz Iranian New Year.

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