Galerie Borghese, Tehran
Zadik Zadikian — Gold Bricks (1979)
Flyer for the first and only exhibition at Shafrazi’s Tehran gallery. Interrupted by the revolution. Gold brick sculptures stolen.
Tony Shafrazi—Moogambo (1976)
Tony Shafrazi
Moogambo
24×26cm, 1976, Edition of 1000
Fasl Dar Honar (A Season in Art)
Fasl Dar Honar (A Season in Art)
Ghandriz Gallery
1971
Qom Girls
Towards an Autochthonic Censorship Aesthetic
Farimani Issue #1
Edited by Amir Mogharabi.
Showcasing a diverse selection of work from artists, musicians, and theorists, Farimani treats textual, musical, and image based projects as individual works of art. Focusing on modern and post-modern forms of expression, Farimani assumes the design of a book, while attempting to align its contents with the architecture of a curated space [...]
Babak Radboy
pon de rad boi’s website
Ali Chitsaz
Untitled (If you were 6 persons in a bus). 2008
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 150 cm
Shirana Shahbazi on Structure
Pages Magazine
Pages Magazine is a bilignual (Farsi/English) critical arts magazine founded by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi in the Netherlands in 2004. Pages is designed by LUST.
Interview with Tabatabai and Afrassiabi conducted by former Casco director Emily Pethick available here [PDF].
Ghazel (b. Tehran 1966) Stills
“Ghazel’s early conceptual works consisted mostly of happenings, installations in her old house in Iran, and pamphlets haphazardly distributed — all reflecting her nomadic life from the age of twenty in the USA, Europe and Iran. Her work with young immigrants in France, and later with young delinquents in Tehran, as well as [...]
Ardeshir Mohassess (b.1938)
Read more at: Tavoos, Art Daily, New York Times, New Yorker
On display through August 3rd at the Asia Society.
Celebration at Persepolis Book
Published by Swiss publishers JRP-Ringier and edited by Nav Haq and Elisa Kay, the book is an expansion on Michael Stevenson’s project for Basel in 2007 for which he reconstructed a guest tent from the 1971 celebration at Persepolis. For more info, see previous post on Shiraz Arts Festivals.