Shirin Gallery Tehran: "Jahan Pahlevan" Takhti | Group Show curated by Arash Tanhai
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Artists (Alphabetical Order)
Ghodratollah Agheli, Mohsen Ahmadvand, Azadeh Akhlaghi, Farshad Alekhamis, Hossein Aliasgari, Samira Alikhanzadeh, Hassan Amekan, Mojtaba Amini, Fereydoun Ave, Negar Ayatollah, Ali Beigiparast, Kourosh Beigpour, Reza Bangiz, Mohammadali Baniasadi, Nima Behnoud, Bahaman Broujeni, Neda Dastgheib, Negin Ehtesabian, Nafiseh Emran, Shahram Entekhbai, Najva Erfani, Arman Estepanin, Shokoufeh Fallah, Habib Farajabadi, Mehdi Fatehi, Mina Feshangchi, Mohsen Fouladpour, Masoud Ghaffari, Malekdadyar Garoosian, Anahita Ghasemkhani, Amirali Golriz, Hoda Haddadi, Ghasem Hadjizadeh, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Kavian Hazeli, Jamshid Haghighatshenas, Ebrahim Haghighi, Reza Hedayat, Dariush Hosseini, Farzaneh Hosseini, Bozorgmehr Hoseinpour, Maryam Jahani, Hamid Janipour, Behnam Kamrani, Parnaz Karimi, Shahram Karimi, Sepideh Kazemi, Matisa Kazerooni, Simin Keramati, Aidin Khankeshipour, Mehrdad Khataie, Ali khosravi, Khosrow Khosravi, Morteza Khosravi, Farshido Lariman, Alireza Masoumi, Sepideh Mehegan, Saeed Mohammadzadeh, Iradj Mohammadi, Malahat Mohebkhah, Nazar Mosavinia, Nosratollah Moslemian, Maliheh Moshkelgosha, Donya Moshrefi, Manouchehr Motabar, Lida Motamed, Firoozeh Mozaffari, Massoumeh Mozaffari, Vana Nabipour, Nafir, Golrokh Nafisi, Kaveh Najmabadi, Jafar Najibi, Ehsan Nasri, Nicky Nodjoumi, Pooneh Oshidari, Ali Pourrazavi, Dariush Radpour, Sara Rahanjam, Saeed Rafiee, Zartosht Rahimi, Jamal Rahmati, Javid Ramezani, Roshanak Ramezani, Ali Roomani, Kambiz Sabri, Masoud Saadedin, Aliakbar Sadeghi, Iman Safaei, Hossein Safi, Hamed Sahihi, Hesam Samavatian, Jahed Sarboland, Mehdi Seifi, Omid Shayan, Delbar Shahbaz, Shaghayegh Shojaian, Rosita Sharafjahan, Behzad Shishegaran, Amir Soghrati, Saba Soleymanian, Rasool Soltani, Mehrnoosh Songhori, Mohammadmehdi Tabatabai, Hossein Tamjid, Arash Tanhai, Saleh Tasbihi, Mahoor Toosi, Kian Vatan, Arash Yadollahi, Morteza Yazdani, Adel Younesi, Shantia ZakerAmeli, Ali Zakeri, Mahmoudreza Zandpour
« ن ان» "Jahan Pahlevan" Takhti
١ ر ل د، و ا ﯾ ر ,1-Neither did Rustam live for six hundred years روﯾ د. ا آرزوی دراز و ھ nor Isfandiar was immortal, but the yearning for ا ن ده و ھ . ن ان د آرزوھ ا ، longevity and immortality has always been with در در آ ن، ا رﯾ در ک و human race and will be forever. Jahan Pahlevan (World Champion) is the man of dreams, a tree ھ رﯾ ھ ا ورش . اﯾ آرزوھ ی with branches high in the sky, but its roots deeply ا ن ا را و in earth and therefore highly believable. Our دﯾ ی را روﯾ . yearnings can make a World champion live for six hundred years and immortalize another. ٢ ن ان، ﯾ در ی ه اﯾ ان از ا م د، و ن ا ن ری در ط ل رﯾ ؛ ا 2- "Jahan Pahlevan" also known as "World دو م در ط ه ھ ر ه ا ، ر Champion" was the highest rank in pre-Islamic زال را ھ « ن ان » ا و رﯾ Iranian Army and therefore there have been ، را. many World Champions in History, but there are only two World Champions whose titles have ٣ در آ د د آ . او وه been remembered permanently: Rustam son of اﯾ ی ر و ک د، و ھ ي Zal in Shahname mythology and Gholamreza دي دا از او ا ا از آور ه ی او .Takhti in our contemporary History ال ط ی ا اﯾ ان . ادب، و ، اھ ، آزاد ، ا ام ن و Gholamreza Takhti was born in Khani Abad, a 3- ارزش ھ ي ھ و ھ ي او د ان poor southern neighborhood of Tehran. He was وﯾ ه از ز ی ﯾ زھ ا، از او ه ای not only a powerful and swift wrestler but also in ر ب . گ مش در و ھ his personality so many desirable traits had come را ھ ه ﯾ . در ا ا ان together that turned his figure to something way beyond the mere first Iranian Gold medalist in the م ری از ن ھ ، ان ھ ، ورز ه ھ و... ,Olympic Games. Politeness and humility م او ا . ا او از اﯾ ھ در ور دم ر compassion, benevolence, liberal spirit, respect دارد ، و ر دی د و ون ھ for his precedents and national and religious ار ط دو ھ اﯾ ان و د values and specially his humanitarian efforts after دارد. The Boueen Zahra earthquake turned him to a very popular face. His untimely death, he was only 37, was never accepted and believed by the ۴ ھ ان ری او را ع آ ر د ار داده ا ، people. All through Iran, many streets, Piazzas, ا اﯾ ش ھ ی ھ ه و ا schools, Stadiums and … are named after him ا . دو دا اﯾ وژه ی دﯾ ھ ھ : : but more importantly he continues to exist as an ، و ه رد. ه و دﯾ ه empowering memory for the masses. His mere دی ھ ھ از و ﯾ م درآﯾ existence, without any connection to or ، ارد و ط ه ی دم از او interference by the state authorities is a proof for ا ون د . .the vitality of Iranian Nation
۵ در ا ب ھ ان، دم ، وﯾ Many artists have addressed Takhti in their 4- ھ ی او از ط ی د ر ده و ان ﯾ work but such attempts have never been on a ه د . ﯾ ﯾ داﯾ ه ی ، داﯾ و collective and comprehensive level. I would have ھ ا ﯾ ه ھ ا دم. ھ loved this project to get involved with other ﯾ ﯾ ه ا ﯾ او artistic forms of expression such as film, theatre . ا ب ھ ی ده ای دا از and music in a way that every artist is able to ھ ا اﯾ ھ و ھ ی ن و narrate his own story and to get it registered and ان از ھ ان دا ھ و د آ ، و exhibited for the public and to merge it with the people's collective memory of the champion. د و ... ، ا ه دا ام و از ھ آن آ ه ام و اﯾ ای ا اھ ، و دش . دا For selecting the Artists I thought of Takhti 5- اﯾ ﯾ ه را ، و ﯾ who had crossed class barriers and had turned ار د. ا اﯾ ط ر ا . himself to a national hero. The exhibition couldn't have been limited to works of an Artistic closed coterie, permanently present in most of the other ۶ ی ن ازی ا ، ا exhibitions. Autodidact Artists, street Artists, ان اش ه ا ، ھ زه ﯾ illustrators, cartoonists and younger artists had ای ارد. ﯾ ان ب ھ ، ت و آ ری something to say on this subject and therefor در ره ی او ا ، اﯾ را ، they should have been considered too. No doubt, ُ ھ ﯾ را دﯾ ، ، و ز و اش آ I have had some mistakes but this is the . ری در اﯾ ﯾ ه ب دآوری compensation for experimenting and forming a ه ا ، ان آن ھ را ای ھ در زه personal identity. It was also possible to make ی ﯾ ا و آن را زه ی ز ه ای the exhibition smaller, more elitist and perhaps ﯾ د آ و ان ھ . ا اﯾ .more refined. But this wasn't my intention دﯾ در ان ﯾ « ﯾ دان » ، اﯾ دﯾ ا را ط اﯾ ز و ان اش را 6- Every country celebrates the achievements of دو دار . its heroes whose pride is the pride of a nation but piazza Takhti is left without a monument, آرش ﯾ museum or institution. There is no particular
source to follow the publication and Art works related to him, to see recordings of his wrestling matches, to hear his voice or to get acquainted with his life and manners. A lot of this sort of material was gathered in the course of curating this exhibition and can be deposited safely in a sort of Takhti institute, turn it to a living museum and a place for gathering of the youth. But this curator is unable to guarantee this and therefore there is a need for efforts of the others who love this country and its people just like Takhti loved.
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