Niyaz Saghari is Born in 1977,Tehran-Iran she has graduated with and M.A in Animation, from University of Wales,Newport and a B.A-Film Directing from Art University-Tehran. her works has been exhibited in tehran and abroad
Khatchin was a part of Parkingallery’s Deeper Derpression video program exhibited in Azad Art Gallery in 2006.
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.
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
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
Candlelight and Its Side Effects - Interactive installation by Payman Abbasian
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.
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
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?
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