SOT and ICY, two of our favorite graffiti artists from Tabriz. They are showing thier recent STENCIL artworks at Mehrin Gallery,Tehran. The exhibition is on from 8th to 13th of January, 2010,
and opening hours are from 15:00 until 19:00.

Wanna see of their stuff, check out their video Kids Love Peace

from ICY And SOT on Vimeo.

Mehrin art Gallery
No.33 – 2nd 12th Metri – Golestan 20th Metri Alikhani -
South of Vanak park – Tehran -
tell : +9821  8824 0946 & +9821 8803 1652

The other
Group Exhibition

The image through the mirror (digital image) - Nikoo Tarkhani

Samira Eskandarfar, Nima Esmailpour, Nikoo Tarkhani, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Farid Jafari Samarghandi, Melodi Hoseynzadeh, Ahmad Zolfagharian, Behrouz Rae, Behrang Samadzadegan, Hamed Sahihi, Samira Alikhandzadeh, Amirali Ghasemi, Babak Kazemi, Sohrab M. Kashani, Behnam Kamrani, Katayoun Karami, Barbad Golshiri

Music by Kaveh Kateb

A new Art Gallery opens in Tehran
Mohsen Art Gallery is hosting its 1st exhibition with “The Other”, the show is curated by Ali Ettehad Born in Sari, 1983 is one of the artists/writers who is joining the growing numbers of curators contributing to Tehran’s contemporary Art  scene.Also Aydin Aghdashloo and Hamid Severi will talk as guest speakers for occasion of the exhibition at the opening.
Mohsen Art Gallery named after Mohsen rasoulov, the late Iranian curator, filmmaker and photographer lost his life in a tragical plane crash at the age of 25.
Opening : Friday 8 January 2010 from 5 to 9 pm.
The exhibition will be on view till 20th of Jan, 2010.

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Isolation Glove by Majid Asiabi

Parkingallery wishes you a successful year ahead, We hope that this year will be a great year for Iranian Contemporary arts too, and the curators who visit Iran take off the isolation gloves/glasses from their eyes … Here is an artwork by a young graphic designer Majid Asiabi, who is based in tabriz and we recently came across his works while surfing internet, and we hope collaborate with him in the future.

“Baaz in che shouresh ast”

A selection of Photography, Painting, Installation and Video Curated by Arash Fayez

Still from "Time, Space, Karbala" 10:50min, DV, 2009 by Azin Feizabadi

Alireza Adambakan | Azin Agharabi | Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar | Shahpour Pouyan | Newsha Tavakolian | Homayoun Sirizi | Arash Fayez | Azin Feizabadi | Sasan Gharehdaghlou | Katayoun Karami | Anahita Norouzi | Hamed Nouri | Peyman Houshmandzadeh | Mohsen Yazdipour

Opening:
Friday Dec. 25th, 2009 | 4 to 8 pm | 28 Dec. to 5 Jan | Sat. to Wed. from 11 to 7 pm | Thur. from 5 to 8 pm

‘Ashura is the triumph of blood over the sword’. This is the chant I have been hearing since I was a kid and it so happened that the chant was all over the streets on the day I came to hang the works.

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Aun Gallery hosts “Saba the Wind”, a video-installation by  Amirali Navaee  synchronized to “Open Form”, a sound-installation by Mohammad Pazhutan and Honey Haq, Tuesday the 22nd and Wednesday the 23rd of December, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm.

Amirali Navaee (1982 -Tehran)is a young Iranian Director, recently won Intervideo Talent award, from Ex_Ground film festival for his new film “Sight” and two of his short films recently screened at the a section of Venice film Festival.

Aun is a very new gallery space opened in Tehran since Sep 2009, the space seems impressive, but so far we hope this can be added to very limited spaces for contemporary art practices and not just another commercial gallery among others, their website reads:

Aun Gallery is Tehran’s first privately-owned art space designed and built to showcase contemporary art. The building offers 120 square meters of open exhibition space, a five-meter high ceiling and a paneled roof to provide maximum natural light. Aun Gallery allows for optimal exhibition of all types of art media (painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation) while offering the visitor a new art viewing experience.

Aun Gallery
No 40. Seoul Ave. Vanak , Tehran 19958 Iran
Tel: +98 21 88603050

LIMITED ACCESS II ’s catalog now is available to to download in PDF format

We are really thankful to our fabulous designers at NewBookz Studio,
Sam Keshmiri (Cover(s) and Poster) and Shahab Tondar (Book Design)
who created this wonderful book in the occasion of the exhibition.

Limited Access II catalog is sponsored by Parkingallery and Mooweex.com and published by NewBookz
in 82 Pages, sized 14 x 21 cm and in black & white, with the Edition of 400,in November 2009.

Enjoy!

Fereydoun Ave, Mixed Media and Digital Print on Canvas. 100x150 cm.

Rostam in The Dead Of Winter:
Fereydon Ave at Aaran Gallery
Opening on 18th December 2009.

For centuries the illustrious and mythological stories of the legendary Persian Hero “Rostam“ have passed down through generations of Iranians.
The poetry of Shah Nameh ( also known as the book of kings,) written approximately a thousand years ago, by Abul Qasim Ferdowsi  (celebrated and hailed as the Homer of Iran ) is recited by millions of Iranians. In this century the echoes of this oral tradition are transferred into numerous works of art by the Iranian contemporary artists.
In his most political work to date, Fereydon Ave, uses the images of a wrestler wondering among creatures of darkness in the dead of winter. The series is about dying and resurrection and the Chivalry that is dying in the land of Rostam.

But the long history of the land has taught us; That the winter will not last long, and the support, aspirations and cheers of millions of Iranians will eventually drive our “Hero“ back into the limelight and yet into another bright spring.

AAran Art Gallery. Tehran.

No 12 dey street. North Kheradmand ave.
Tel +9821 88829086- 9

Duel

Printmaking and Installation exhibition by Mehrdad Khataei
Dey Art Gallery
18-25 December 2009
No.3,Taraneh Dd. End, Naz 1 Alley, Tangestan 4 St., Pasdaran St., Niavaran

Tehran
Poster Design by Mani Mehrvarz

Mohammadreza Mirzaei | solo show
Fotoloft Gallery
From 11 December 2009 untill 31 January 2010

The FotoLoft Gallery of Moscow has the honor to introduce the personal exhibition of the Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei, “Humans”. These 18 photographs are like little splinters of the large human’s life. black figures without past, present and future. They are like illustrations to Nietzsche’s idea about desertion of man in the World, desertion and solitude. The whole tragedy is that seeming graphic pictures are in fact photographs, that mean they reflect our life.

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Les Misérables on Stage at Bahman Culture House (Tehran Slaughterhouse) by Shirin Sabahi

Les Misérables on Stage at Bahman Culture House (Tehran Slaughterhouse)

Shirin Sabahi’s exhibition in rum46 evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman in Iran and Sweden during the ‘60s and the ‘70s. Edman is a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979 on behalf of a Malmö–based company Agriconsult for the purpose of realizing industrial projects for various Iranian state-owned and private industries. Among the projects Edman was working on in Iran, Sabahi follows the former Tehran slaughterhouse from its formation in a suburban area to its industrialization and further transformation to a culture house in the process of gentrification of the area. This slaughter/culture house is carefully set as the meeting point of multiple narrations that Sabahi provides the audience with in the installation Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009. These narrations are based on the diverse contributions of workers of Agriconsult and Tehran slaughterhouse in the research that the artist conducted around this non-lived past that she carries variety of its memories through different modes of transference. Approaching the found footage as both an insider and an outsider, her work deals with notions of belonging and displacement, identity, social memory and colonial modernity.

Shirin Sabahi (b. Tehran) received her BA in photography from Tehran Art University in 2007 and her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2009. She is currently an artist-in-residence in rum46.

rum46
Studsgade 46
8000 Århus
11. December – 15. December 2009
Monday to Sunday, 15:00 – 19:00
Opening Thursday 10 December, 17:00 – 21:00