2015 multi-artist exhibition 8th to 15th February 2015 Summerhall gallery, Edinburgh
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About the Exhibition Artists from around the world were invited, through a call for artists, to respond to the title of Perception in categories such as video, installation, multi-media, painting, textile, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Artworks must have been created by an Iranian artist or inspired by Iran.
The Selection Process Our invited judges made their selections from over 200 submissions and the works with the most votes will be exhibited at Summerhall gallery, Edinburgh, during the festival week. There will be a jury prizewinner for most promising submission.
Judges
Janet Rady Based between London and the United Arab Emirates, gallery director and curator Ms Rady is a specialist in contemporary art from the Middle East, with over twenty five years’ experience of the international art market including leading auction houses and major commercial galleries. She holds a masters degree in Islamic Art History from the University of Melbourne, and is the hons lectures secretary for the Iran Society and a nominator for the Jameel Prize. She is a member of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce and sits on the Advisory Council of Caravan Arts. http://www.janetradyfineart.com/
Morteza Nematollahi Mr Nematollahi is a leading figure in contemporary art within Iran. Born in Isfahan, Iran, he studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Isfahan and the University of Fine Arts in Tehran. One of his creations was the statue of Ostad Ali Akbar Isfahani who was the architect of Imam Square, Isfahan. He has participated in a number of biennials, group and solo exhibitions across Iran, and been part of numerous jury panels for exhibitions.
Gohar Dashti Gohar Dashti holds a masters degree in photography from the Fine Art University, Tehran. She creates artwork using different media such as photography and video with references to history and culture in modern society. She has participated in art residencies and scholarships such as the DAAD award and her works have appeared in various exhibitions around the world such as the V&A in London, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. http://www.gohardashti.com/
Helia Darabi Ms Darabi is an art critic and freelance curator. She holds a masters degree in Art Studies from the University of Fine Arts, Tehran. She lectured at the Art University in Tehran and has worked as an editor for various art magazines such as Tandis. Her artworks have been shown at exhibitions around Iran and Turkey. She has also worked in translating several art academic books into Persian.
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Jury prizewinner
Category: Painting Name: Mansooreh Peyrovi Email: [email protected] Ref no: MPey128
Short biography: The artist was born in Sari, Iran, and now lives in Tehran. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Painting from Tehran University. She has been part of many group exhibitions around Tehran.
Description of artworks: This collection is made up of paintings called The Veresk Bridge which is the artist’s perception of the events in World War II where the bridge was a route for the Russians and helped secure victories.
List of artworks: 1. The Veresk Bridge 1, 2014, 55cm x 43cm, 2500000 toumans 2. The Veresk Bridge 2, 2014, 53cm x 56cm, 2500000 toumans 3. The Veresk Bridge 3, 2014, 41cm x 60cm, 2500000 toumans
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Category: Photography Name: Mohsen Shahmardi Email: [email protected] Ref no: MSha113
Short biography: The artist was born in Tehran, Iran and has a bachelor's degree in Cinema. He has had two solo exhibitions of his works, one in Tehran and one in Japan. He has also participated in seventeen national and international group exhibitions in Iran, England, France, and Wales.
Description of artworks: The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They look at the sea all day. The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be- The water comes ashore.
From “Neither out far nor in deep” --- Robert Frost
List of artworks: 1. Untitled, 2014, 50cm x 150cm, digital print, 5000000 toumans
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Category: Painting Name: Meghdad Lorpoor Email: [email protected] Ref no: MLor5
Short biography: The artist was born in Shiraz, Iran. He has a bachelor’s degree in Painting. He has shown his works in solo and group exhibitions around Iran.
Description of submitted work: The artist has used elements more commonly used for road construction to create his artworks. This may cause the viewer to change its perception of what bitumen, crude oil, and tar can be used for. These materials are abundant in oil-rich countries like Iran.
List of works: 1. Tar 1, 2013, 35cm x 22cm, 2500000 toumans 2. Tar 2, 2013, 35cm x 22cm, 2500000 toumans 3. Tar 3, 2013, 35cm x 22cm, 2500000 toumans
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Category: Video Name: Farsad Labbauf Email: [email protected] Ref no: FLab76
Short biography: The artist is Iranian and living and working in the New York area. Best known for his linear figurative paintings, he immigrated to America at thirteen. He has a bachelor’s in Fine Arts and also in Industrial Design. His linear figurative paintings are inspired in part by Persian calligraphy, tile works, and studies in quantum physics, revealing his reverence for such ideas as Unity and Monism. His paintings have been featured in more than sixty group shows across the globe, including Saatchi Gallery in London and Ex Aurum Museum in Pescara, Italy, in addition to solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Tehran and Esfahan Museum of Contemporary Art.
Description of artworks: Value is a commodity that can be traded in and of itself by various perceptions of a population at any given moment in time and history. Inheritance is a single channel video projection addressing the seeming polarities between western ideas of modernization through industry and rise of capitalism, versus the skeletal foundation of an ancient eastern cultural legacy and its remaining traditions in the modern landscape of Iran. By examining the gradual movement and intersection of two still images, (one of an oil refinery under construction and the other of the great audience hall of Persepolis), Inheritance questions the rise or fall of these seeming polarities, allowing the answer to unfold in the ephemeral perception of the viewer and their individual observation of movement and meaning.
List of artworks: 1. Inheritance: Rise or Fall, 2014, single channel video, 2 mins, $4000
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Category: Video Name: Roxana Vilk Email: [email protected] Ref no: RVil129
Short biography: The artist is a British/Iranian filmmaker and musician living in Scotland.
Description of artworks: The artist is submitting three short art films made in Northern Iraq, commissioned by Highlight arts and The British Council. They are art films responding visually and sonically to the poetry of three Iraqi poets from Kirkuk and Baghdad.
List of artworks: 1. Gilgamesh’s Snake 2. In the Beginning 3. Beyond Words
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Category: Video Names: Ramin Rahimi & Arash Mobarrez Emails: [email protected], [email protected] Ref no: RRah103
Short biography: Arash is an Iranian composer and sound designer living in Tehran, Iran. After his degree in computer software and engineering, he began composing with computers and has composed and recorded many pieces for cinema, live concerts, video art, and installations. Ramin is a painter, videographer, and filmmaker from Iran. He has shown his works in exhibitions and festivals around Iran, America, and Europe.
Description of artworks: Cenapse is a series of audio/visual experiments based on the concept of removing all the narrative elements from the piece and using special audio-visual stimulations to create the same brain condition in the viewer as watching a dramatic narrative.
List of artworks: 1. Cenapse #1, 2014, 2 mins 22 secs 2. Cenapse #2, 2014, 1 min 40 secs
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Category: Textile Name: Maryam Ashkanian Email: [email protected] Ref no: MAsk121
Short biography: The artist was born in Bandar Anzali in Iran. She studied Painting at the Fine Arts University in Rasht. She enjoys creating art works by sewing on fabric with an abstract content. She held her first solo show in Tehran three years ago and, since then, has been a part of a number of exhibitions and festivals at home and abroad.
Description of artworks: The artist presents artworks from her Statement of Epitome series which she hopes will give a glimpse into her birth place and her thought processes. “Bareness of the visual kind and its brevity are the reasons why I place these stitches on the expanse of cloth. From this, supple imagery emerges”
List of artworks: Epitome 1, 2013, 130cm x 130cm, sewing on fabric, $3500 Epitome 2, 2013, 130cm x 130cm, sewing on fabric, $3500
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Category: Mixed media Name: Arsalan Tighnavard Email: [email protected] Ref no: ATig99
Short biography: The artist is from Rasht in north Iran. He has been working and studying in the painting field, and has shown his works in exhibitions around Iran,
Description of artworks: The artist’s collection is called Time. At any point there is creation in history, there is always the time element. This collection shows events frozen in time where all of their elements are visible. If the creation was not born, the time would not exist.
List of artworks: 1. Time 1, 2013, 25cm x 35cm, $500 2. Time 2, 2013, 25cm x 35cm, $500 3. Time 3, 2013, 25cm x 35cm, $500
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Category: Sculpture Name: Amir Fanaee Email: [email protected] Ref no: AFan167
Short biography: The artist is from Iran and studied pottery. He has participated in thirty group exhibitions.
Description of artworks: The artist presents two pieces that represent forces of nature that seem to be permanently moving and never static, as quantum theory states. In the course of eternal life or progression, the smallest particle to the larger galaxies will change and evolve.
List of artworks: 1. Untitled 1, 2013, 50cm x 50cm x 50cm 2. Untitled 2, 2013, 40cm x 80cm x 120cm
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Category: Mixed media Name: Shima Esfandiari Email: [email protected] Ref no: SEsf163
Short biography: Born in Tehran, Iran, the artist graduated from the Art and Architecture University of Tehran. She works in different fields such as Painting, Sculpture and Installation. She has exhibited in numerous Biennials and exhibitions in Iran, Dubai, London, Kuwait, Sweden, Georgia, USA, UK and Germany and participated in Dubai Art Fair (Art Dubai). In 2007, she was the first prize winner of Drawing Biennial at the Imam Ali Museum. She has also -for two times- became shortlisted artist of Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOPCAP) in 2011 and 2013 in Dubai.
Description of artworks: The Persian Carpets designs are resemblance of Persian Gardens, which are based on the major beliefs of Persians about the Creation and Life. The situation of humanity, in current era, has been shown with suspended figures, as they cut and separated from the center of the Persian Carpet (Persian Culture) and its beauties. They are dreaming about their great past.
List of artworks: Garden II, 2013, 110cm x 95cm, £1300
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Category: Photography Name: Amir Behroozi Email: [email protected] Ref no: ABeh191
Short biography: The artist is from Rasht, Iran. He underwent photography training and has participated in group exhibitions around Iran. He has also worked with local and international magazines.
Description of artworks: The artist presents photographs depicting the culture of different people living in Iran. Life shows elementary school kids playing during a visit to Tabatabai’s house in Kashan, Iran. Vita shows a country woman’s life on a summer afternoon in Guilan, Iran. Fight shows traditional wrestling in Guilan, Iran, called Gileh Mardy.
List of artworks: Life, 36cm x 36cm Vita, 36cm x 36cm Fight, 54cm x 36cm
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Category: Print Name: Ali Ebrahim Nikoo Email: [email protected] Ref no: ANik70
Short biography: The artist is from Tehran, Iran. He is a member of the Visual Arts Society of Illustrators and, while studying, was responsible for hand-printing workshops at university. He has exhibited his illustrations at galleries around Iran, including a hand-made postcard collection at Gallery Laleh. He took part in the Fajr International Film Festival in its illustration section.
Description of artworks: An engraving is not an effect. It registers a memorable moment like a look or a smile or sadness. We see the people within the images and their smiles or sadness are like moments of smiles or sadness for us, like a memory engraved.
List of artworks: 1. Memento 1, hand print, 25cm x 20cm, 300,000 toumans 2. Memento 2, hand print, 25cm x 20cm, 300,000 toumans 3. Memento 3, hand print, 25cm x 20cm, 300,000 toumans
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Category: Painting Name: Neda Samadi Email: [email protected] Ref no: NSam81
Short biography: The artist is from Karaj, Iran. She has a master’s in Drawing from Al- Zahra University. She has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions around Iran.
Description of artworks: Throughout history, the shared space between humans is perceived to be constant until a change is caused by some kind of transformation. These spaces become the setting for human actions and a testament to the changes that can occur every day.
List of artworks: On the Set of the Dark 1, acrylic on fiber, 25cm x 70cm, 500000 toumans On the Set of the Dark 2, acrylic on fiber, 50cm x 70cm, 800000 toumans On the Set of the Dark 3, acrylic on fiber, 50cm x 70cm, 800000 toumans
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Category: Sculpture Name: Elnaz Salehi Email: [email protected] Ref no: ESal186
Short biography: The artist was born in Tehran, Iran, and studied sculpture at the University of Tehran. She has shown her works in exhibitions and festivals around Iran.
Description of artworks: This is the age of imagery, of domination by solid objects. For some, imagery not only defines human perception but humanity itself. Would it then be possible to speak of a blind person's perception? Could it be in any way related to my own perceptions and sensations? The Piraha people, a tribe native to the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, have no abstract terms to express colour apart from bright and dark. Words and language carry socio-historical meanings which only make the intended sense in their own cultural and geographical domains; the awareness and objectivity is often lost in translation to another language. But this shortcoming aside, can we talk of a universal inability to see or to speak? Can we talk of an inability to "tell" our perceptions and to communicate with others? Or, contrary to this, should we talk of an invisible and inexpressible awareness, an unaccountable awareness? Should we talk of an idea which defies perception, which defies assimilation into a linguistic structure, which defies objectification and, like a lightning in the night's sky, blinds all for an instance? The word Mamihlapinatapai is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered (for example by Austrian playwright Clemens Berger) one of the hardest words to translate.
List of artworks: Blue, 32cm x 17cm x 5cm, sheet metal/LED light, 1500000 toumans Mamihlapinatapai, 60cm x 17cm x 5cm, sheet iron/LED light, 1500000 toumans
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Category: Sculpture Name: Amin Roshan Email: [email protected] Ref no: ARos196
Short biography: The artist has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and shown his works in solo and group exhibitions around Iran and in London, Dubai, and the USA.
Description of artworks: The lion has come to be recognised as the King of the jungle, therefore in some way he is linked to Kings and Sultans. In truth, it so happens that in the same way that the lion reigns supreme over other animals, so a King reigns supreme over his people. The last Iranian lion was hunted some eight decades ago, however the essence of the lion remains to this day, ever present in the culture and beliefs of the Iranian people. In eastern culture, the bull symbolises the moon and the lion is a symbol of the sun. Just as the lion overcomes the bull, so it follows that the sun prevails over the moon, the day over night and light over darkness. With this work, the artist has tried to demonstrate such prevalence but this time we see the bull surmounting and hunting the lion. The image of the bull overcoming the lion, as engraved on the blow torch, is to illustrate all at once that everything has been reversed and to suggest the prospect of darkness triumphing over light. For his second piece, the artist was inspired by the poetry of Iranian poet Molana to create his artwork, which is engraving (ghalamzani) on an original helmet of an Iranian oil company.
List of artworks: 1. Lion and the Bull on blowtorch, 2013, 25cm x 12cm x 21cm, $3500 2. The Riders, 2013, 49cm x 27cm x 31cm, $4000
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Category: Photography Name: Pezhman Zahed Email: [email protected] Ref no: PZah2
Short biography: The artist is an Iranian artist and photographer. He studied BA Photography at the University of Brighton and is currently finishing his MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University, Weimar. His work has been exhibited around Europe, and featured internationally in Photoworks, Elephant magazine, and Curator. He has also worked as an assistant for Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. His practice had previously involved examining the possibility of transforming non-visual data (such as economic figures) into visual forms. In a conceptual and technical shift from this approach, more recently he uses staged imagery and is particularly interested in semi- autobiographical fiction with absurdist overtones.
Description of submitted work: “Blowback” looks back at the financial records of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) prior to the nationalisation of the oil industry in Iran, which led to the overthrow of the government, coded Operation Ajax. The photographs demonstrate excited fluids under the effect of sound waves with particular frequencies. The figures used to generate the frequencies correspond to the company’s net profits, royalties to Iran and (if applicable) British taxes, in nine most critical years of the company’s forty-two year long activity in Iran prior to the nationalization. Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from declassified documents and found images related to the events immediately before and after Operation Ajax.
List of works: 1. 1949, 51cm x 51cm in silver-gelatin fiber print 2. 1943, 51cm x 51cm in silver-gelatin fiber print 3. 1919, 51cm x 51cm in silver-gelatin fiber print
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Category: Mixed media Name: Solaleh Abdolpanah Email: [email protected] Ref no: SAbd40
Short biography: The artist is from the Gilan province of Iran. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Painting. The artist has exhibited her paintings at shows around Iran, include at the acclaimed House of Artists in Tehran. Her Doubt exhibition was given its own solo showcase at the House of Art Gallery in Rasht, Iran.
Description of artworks: This trio of artworks are called Doubt. They display different materials collaged over one another. They seem like they are related when looked at as a whole, but separately they are different and seem to be engaged in some kind of struggle with each other. The covering seems like a morning fog that makes any kind of truth or perception difficult.
List of artworks: 1. Doubt 1, 2013, 100cm x 140cm, $1200 2. Doubt 2, 2013, 100cm x 140cm, $1200 3. Doubt 3, 2013, 90cm x 90cm, $1000
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Category: Photography Name: Sahar Mokhtari Email: [email protected] Ref no: SMok47
Short biography: The artist is from Zanjan, Iran. She has a bachelor’s degree in Photography from the University of Art in Tehran. She began taking photographs in her teens and became a professional photographer after graduation. She enjoys creative photography and has developed a style that makes use of image manipulation and more traditional patterns. She likes to make use of unimportant, less-noticed things and make them beautiful.
Description of artworks: The artist’s photographs are from the series “No. 44”. This is the door number of her childhood home. From the day that they decided to tear down the building and move away, the artist started to take photographs of it. From the colourful glass panels to the greenhouse in the centre of the home, everywhere light and reflection and fond memories can be seen and felt.
List of artworks: 1. No. 44 – 1, 2014, 30cm x 45cm, 200 euros 2. No. 44 – 2, 2014, 30cm x 45cm, 200 euros 3. No. 44 – 3, 2014, 30cm x 45cm, 200 euros
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Category: Video Name: Zarin Salehi Email: [email protected] Ref no: ZSal60
Short biography: The artist is from Iran and a painter and video artist. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Painting from AlZahra University in Tehran. She has exhibited her works in solo and group shows around Tehran and at the Croxhapox Art Gallery in Belgium.
Description of artworks: The artist is showing how Tehran’s landscape has become urbanised with lawns and gardens being replaced by apartment block full of people working and living but they are not necessarily seen anymore. But the artist hopes to break down this barrier between external and internal and show the people inside, not just a building.
List of artworks: No. 1 - Next to Ayandeh Bank - Daman Afshar St. - Africa Blvd. – Tehran, 3 mins No. 2 - Zhilah Building - Northern Naaz St. - Esteghlal Square – Tehran, 4 mins No.3 - front of Kosar Mosque - Golbarg St. - Emam Ali Hwy. – Tehran, 3 mins
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Category: Video Name: Maryam Hashemi Email: [email protected] Ref no: MHas93
Short biography: The artist grew up in Iran and studied Graphic Design at Azad University. Whilst studying, she developed a distinctive style. She exhibited at many exhibitions within Iran and then moved to the UK over ten years. Once here, she found that graphic design was not for her and became interested in performance and theatre. New interests in London like canals, the occult and interdimensional connections are all very present in her work. She has been involved in many community art projects and continues to exhibit in the UK and internationally.
Description of artworks: The Transformation is a video of the artist looking feminine and sweet but slowly transforming into a bearded masculine figure, therefore changing the viewer’s perception of her. The artist is able to show this video as a live performance as well.
List of artworks: 1. Transformation (video), 2014, 1 min 10 secs
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Category: Painting Name: Roozbeh Gezerseh Email: [email protected] Ref no: RGez106
Short biography: The artist is from Tehran, Iran. He has a bachelor’s in Graphic Arts from the University of Guilan and a master’s in Painting from the Art University of Tehran. He has participated in several group exhibitions of painting and photography in Tehran and Rasht.
Description of artworks: The artist presents paintings of families that would normally be seen in family photograph albums. There are no fake smiles and positions that would be seen in advertisements. Each painting is unique in the world it creates and in the expressions of the subjects.
List of artworks: 1. Untitled 1, 100cm x 70cm, acrylic, $1000 2. Untitled 2, 120cm x 100cm, acrylic, $1200
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Category: Painting Name: Farzane Jouyafar Email: [email protected] Ref no: FJou134
Short biography: The artist is from Esfahan, Iran. She has a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the University of Kerman. She has shown her works in exhibitions around Iran. She also works on projects in the fields of photography, theatre, advertising, and graphic design.
Description of artworks: The artist presents paintings from her collection. She hopes to convey her view of the world in an opposite way and have the viewer see things from a different perspective and with a new eye.
List of artworks: Untitled 1, 100cm x 70cm, digital painting, 1500000 toumans Untitled 2, 100cm x 70cm, digital painting, 2000000 toumans Untitled 3, 100cm x 70cm, digital painting, 2500000 toumans
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Category: Installation Name: Zahra Hosseini Email: [email protected] Ref no: ZHos190
Short biography: The artist began their artistic career by figurative painting and printmaking. She continued onto installation and performance art, which led to a gradual focus on her own body.
Descriptions of artworks: Teratogen is a series about the disobedience of cells and the revolt of meiosis. Cells who instead of working the development of organs, decide to play their own game. Cells that take control and reject symmetry. Teratogen means monster or traumatic and refers to any environmental element that cause harm to the foetus.
List of artworks: Teratogenese series 1, 2014, 35cm x 35cm, embossment, 500000 toumans Teratogenese series 2, 2014, 35cm x 35cm, embossment, 500000 toumans Teratogenese series 3, 2014, 35cm x 35cm, embossment, 500000 toumans
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Category: Installation Name: Amin Sadeghi & Mehran Gharleghi Emails: [email protected], [email protected] Ref no: ASad154
Short biography: The artists were both born and raised in Iran, and trained as architects. They moved to the UK seven years ago to complete a master’s degree in Emergent Technologies and Design. Four years later, they founded a multi- disciplinary architecture, design and research practice based in London. Islamic art and architecture, particularly of Iran, is predominantly characterised by complex geometries in patterns, ornaments and structures. The artists utilise these familiar geometrical elements and develop them further through a contemporary mode of design and fabrication. With this method, they are able to create artefacts that are simultaneously innovative and culturally rooted.
Description of artworks: Over 500 3D printed vases were created by the artists that were called GEMO (“genetically modified”). They were inspired by Middle Eastern art combined with advanced digital modeling and the subsequent production technologies. GEMO uses potentials of 3D-printin technology to create non- repeating series of objects that are not possible or at least difficult to produce using traditional manufacturing methods.
List of artworks: 3D printed large Resin GeMo, hand painted in Black and Red: £3000 3D Printed Resin, CHrome plated: £1700 3D Printed ceramic: £300
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Category: Photography Name: Armin Amirian Email: [email protected] Ref no: AAmi6
Short biography: The artist was born in Esfahan, Iran. He has a graduate diploma in Mathematics and Physics, and went onto study Cinema and Photography after that. He grew up with artist parents so he learnt a wide range of art skills ranging from sculpture to painting and graphic design. He finds the best way to express himself is through his art in photographs and short films.
Description of submitted work: The artist uses symbols of religion, life, and war in set pieces to give a perspective on his thoughts on these subjects and the ideals that people try to live up to and fight and kill for.
List of artworks: 1. Abattoir 1, 2013, 29cm x 42cm 2. Abattoir 2, 2013, 29cm x 42cm 3. Analogy 1, 2013, 42cm x 29cm
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Category: Painting Name: Kaveh Kavoosi Email: [email protected] Ref no: KKav83
Short biography: The artist lives in Tehran, Iran, although he was born in Abadan. From a young age, he showed enthusiasm for art, especially painting. One of his mentors was the contemporary artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh. He studied Art and Architecture at the University of Yazd. He has shown his works in solo and group exhibitions around Iran, including at the Cultural Centre at Niavaran in Tehran.
Description of artworks: The artist’s painting is from his Upside Down series that show a perception of things from a different angle.
List of artworks: Untitled 1, 2014, 100cm x 120cm, mixed media on canvas, $2000
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Category: Painting Name: Homa Eshaqi Email: [email protected] Ref no: HEsh102
Short biography: The artist is from Tehran, Iran. She has a graduate degree in Painting and has shown his works in exhibitions around Tehran.
Description of artworks: Diary of a Fairy is a collection where the world is seen from birth to the infinite. Perhaps the fear of the unknown with things like legends and fairies makes us create our own boundaries and close our eyes to the true way.
List of artworks: Diary of a Fairy 1, 2014, 33cm x 50cm, marker pen on paper, not for sale Diary of a Fairy 2, 2014, 33cm x 50cm, marker pen on paper, not for sale Diary of a Fairy 3, 2014, 33cm x 50cm, marker pen on paper, not for sale
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Category: Drawing Name: Leila Firoozbakht Email: [email protected] Ref no: LFir109
Short biography: The artist is from Karaj, Iran, and has a degree in Painting.
Description of artworks: Bitter Patience shows an embodiment of all of her elements (beauty, dreams, pain, quiet, phobias). Imagine Being Alone asks what if we were by ourselves as we matured. Cancer shows the loneliness and despair. These artworks are from the artist’s Woman collection. She describes the topic as: “Woman; manifestation of beauty, forgotten dreams, silent pains, excessive simple phobias. Girls, dream of mothers, mothers, unwanted repeat of their mothers and a lot of trampled dreams in this forced sequence. This is the trophy of today's woman.”
List of artworks: Bitter Patience of a Woman, charcoal/pastel, 70cm x 100cm, 3000000 toumans Puberty to Imagine Being Alone, charcoal/pastel, 70cm x 100cm, 3000000 toumans Cancer of a Collection of Women, charcoal/pastel, 70cm x 100cm, 3000000 toumans
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Category: Installation Name: Elaine Ogilvie Email: [email protected] Ref no: EOgi136
Short biography: The artist has a bachelor's degree in Fine Art. I Her focus is on circles and spheres as symbols of Unity. Inspired by a book about Islamic Art and Spirituality, she felt like a door was opened for her and she began an inspired connection with Iran.
Description of artworks: Through processes of fragmentation and reconstruction, connecting points or edges, with attention to 'spaces between', the hyperbolic triangle is made visible, and the perception of the hyperbolic tetrahedron. Connected hyperbolic tetrahedra, by means of their graceful edges and surfaces, suggest and reveal invisible forms to the contemplative viewer.
List of artworks: One Hyperbolic Tetrahedron, paper/acrylic/wire/magnets, 40cm x 40cm x 40cm Fourteen Hyperbolic Tetrahedra, paper/acrylic/wire/magnets, 65cm x 65cm x 65cm
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Category: Painting Name: Sona Harbi Email: [email protected] Ref no: MAla141
Short biography: The artist is from Tehran, Iran, and a graduate of Painting. She is also a member of the Association of Iranian Painters. She has shown her works in group exhibitions around Iran.
Description of artworks: The artist is interested in looking back at her favourite memories and into history and family. She has chosen photographs from the late Qajar and Pahlavi periods and created artworks from her perception of them.
List of artworks: Nostalgia 1, 50cm x 60cm, 1500000 toumans Nostalgia 2, 50cm x 50cm, 1500000 toumans Nostalgia 3, 40cm x 43cm, 1200000 toumans
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Category: Photography Name: Pegah Ghadiri Email: [email protected] Ref no: PGha148
Short biography: The artist is from Arak, Iran, and a mechanical engineering graduate. She has been interested in photography since her teens. After graduating, she started to learn more about it and was taught by well-known teachers such as Mohammad Ghafouri and Reza Mousavi. She has worked in theatre and concert photography since last year, including the Tehran Music Festival last summer.
Description of artworks: The artist is interested in creative photography and discovering the deeper meanings behind each frame.
List of artworks: Ascension, 50cm x 75cm, $1000
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Category: Photography Name: Farzin Forootan Email: [email protected] Ref no: FFar88
Short biography: The artist was born in Mashhad, Iran, and now lives in Tehran. He studied Graphic Design at the Fine Art School in Mashhad and it was here that he began taking photographs. After that, he has worked in advertising, fashion, and landscape and staged photography. People and their issues have a major role in his works and this 2D image helps to freeze the people in a moment and situation. He has exhibited in many galleries around Tehran.
Description of artworks: The three artworks are from the artist’s Parallel Streams series that focuses on the relationship between men and women, and the image that is perceived in society about how women should be and act like. This perception stays with generations after generations like parallel mirrors that accompany our lives.
List of artworks: 1. Parallel Streams 1, 2014, 90cm by 60cm, $150 2. Parallel Streams 2, 2014, 90cm by 60cm, $150 3. Parallel Streams 3, 2014, 90cm by 60cm, $150
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Purchasing artworks
If you are interested in any of our artist’s works, please contact Janet Rady at: Address: Janet Rady Fine Art, Art Gallery, 50 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6LX Tel: 020 7830 9327 Email: [email protected]
Artwork prices
£1 = 4,202 Iranian toumans £1 = $1.52 (American dollars) £1 = $1.92 (Canadian dollars) £1 = €1.34 (Euros)
Exchange rates are correct as of 11th February 2015
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Some photographs of our exhibition
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