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A collection of prints by prominent Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli is Arts & Culture Desk exhibited at Grosvenor Gallery in London until May 8. The 84-year-old modern artist, acclaimed internationally for his ranian film ‘White Winged Horse,’ sculptural work, created a series of screenprints in 1974, which were directed by Mahyar Mandegar, won then used as carpet patterns through traditional methods, IRNA re- Ithe Most Innovative Short Film at ported. the 23rd Reel to Real – Film Festival for The exhibition consists a number of these original screenprints, as Youth which was held in Canada. well as some of Tanavoli’s later works. Mandegar’s film is about a man who “Though Parviz Tanavoli is known as the father of modern Iranian returns to his Iranian hometown, which sculpture, over the course of his seven decades as an artist he has cre- was destroyed in the war 20 years ago. ated a diverse range of artworks from ceramics to rugs, from painting He is searching for his childhood sweet- to prints. Through the years, Tanavoli’s art has been deeply influenced heart who had promised him, eternal by his work as a teacher, a researcher, and a collector. And it is in his love, ISNA wrote. prints from the 1970s that one can clearly see the themes and motifs The film has been screened at a num- that would become central to his creative expression. ber of festivals including the Berlin In- Recalling his early works, Tanavoli said Iranian themes had come ternational Film Festival, the Tirana to possess the very fiber of my being and haunted my thoughts,” Shiva International Film Festival, the Izmir Balaghi, a cultural historian of the Middle East, wrote on the gallery’s International Short Film Festival and the website. Cameraimage International Film Festi- The Iranian sculptor and painter is best known for his collection of val. ‘Heech’ (nothing) sculptures throughout the world. It won a special mention in the Gen- Tanavoli, graduated from Brera Academy in Milan in 1959, was a eration 14plus Section of the 70th Berlin cofounder of the Saqqakhaneh School in the 60’s – the first modern art International Film Festival. vimeo.com movement in Iran which sought an Iranian identity for the contempo- It also received nominations in eight rary artworks in the country. categories, including best film and best Short Film Association (ISFA) Awards. nadian festival brought outstanding line due to the limitations imposed by His works, which are inspired by the traditional patterns of the Per- director, at the 11th edition of the Iranian This year’s unique edition of the Ca- films to enthusiasts. It was held on- coronavirus. sian handicrafts and literature, have been exhibited in numerous high- profile galleries such as Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern in London, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as Minneapolis Institute of Art and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Tanavoli taught sculpture for three years at the Minneapolis Col- Historian fights to establish William Friese-Greene lege of Art and Design in the US before returning to his homeland where he assumed the directorship of the sculpture department at the as true father of cinema University of Tehran, a position he held for 18 years until 1979. His sculpture ‘The Wall’ (Oh Persepolis) was sold for $2.5 million in 2008, which was an auction record for a Middle Eastern artist. It’s a strange fact, but British developed a second more ad- tery in north London boldly me- did significantly speed up the Last week, Tanavoli was among the winners at the Asia Arts inventor William Friese-Greene vanced camera, and had quietly morializes him as “the inventor possibility of cinema, and that Game Changer Awards for his influential role in the history of the is as well-known among serious discovered a way to project im- of kinematography”. without his experiments in a continent’s art. film buffs for not having invent- ages from a perforated roll of But mistakes made in a first, basement workshop while on ed cinema as he is for inventing film. over-enthusiastic and patri- the edge of destitution, the tech- it. Now, on the centenary of his nical problems posed by getting sudden death at 65, mid-flow at a camera and a projector to cre- a meeting of film distributors, ate the impression of live action Iranian poet Ganjavi GETTY IMAGES admirers of this controversial pi- would not have been solved. Friese-Greene in about 1919, two oneer from Bristol are at the cen- To coincide with the cente- years before his sudden death, aged commemorated in Russia ter of a new drive to establish his nary of Friese-Greene’s death on 65, at a film distributors’ meeting. international legacy once again. May 5, the organization Bristol Film director and historian Ideas is publishing a book of es- both publicized their work, un- The State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow held an exhibition titled ‘Nizami’s Sub- Peter Domankiewicz believes says as part of its 2021 program, like the French inventor Louis jects & Visual Works’ to commemorate Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi. Friese-Greene will soon be re- with two key chapters on the re- Le Prince, a contemporary in- Organized by the Min- instated as one of the great fig- discovery of Friese-Greene. novator who worked more pri- istry of Culture of the Rus- ures in the development of the Born William Green in 1855, vately. sian Federation, the event moving image: The one who got Friese-Greene went on to win a It was not until Friese- was held in Moscow on the there before Thomas Edison, the GETTY IMAGES charitable place at Queen Eliza- Greene’s death in 1921 that the occasion of the 880th birth Lumière brothers and George The photo shows an 1890 stereo cine camera designed by Friese-Greene. It beth’s Hospital school in Bristol, film industry began to raise him anniversary of the Iranian Méliès, the Frenchman whose has many of the characteristics of the first moving picture cameras of 1896. where he did so well he earned to heroic status. poet. story was told by Martin Scors- himself a prestigious photo- “Accusations that came later A total number of 57 ese in the hit 2011 film ‘Hugo’, So, at first sight, the job of otic attempt to celebrate Friese- graphic apprenticeship in the that Friese-Greene used other artworks including manu- theguardian.com reported. rebuilding the reputation of this Greene’s achievements have al- city. people’s work just don’t hold scripts, miniature images “Friese-Greene patented a innovator should not be diffi- lowed subsequent historians to He later ran a hugely success- water,” said Domankiewicz, from his books, and several motion picture camera, and cre- cult. After all, he is already the pick holes in the story. In fact, ful photography studio in nearby who has recently received a large and small carpets also ated several models which did subject of a moving 1951 biopic, in 1955, on the centenary of his Bath during the 1880s. And it Ph.D. grant to continue his re- containing images of Niza- IRNA most of what a movie camera ‘The Magic Box,’ starring mati- birth, an influential campaign was here that a lucky meeting search into the life of the inven- mi’s book subjects were on display in the event, Mehr News Agency reported. would later do when the film in- nee idol Robert Donat and based actively opposed the celebration with John Rudge, a local magic tor, including the recreation of The cultural exhibition also featured works from the State Hermitage Museum in dustry truly kicked off in 1896,” on a fulsome 1948 biography. of his work by the industry. lantern expert, set him off in the his early film experiments. St. Petersburg, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Radishchev Art Museum, said Domankiewicz, adding that What’s more, Friese-Greene’s Now the time is ripe, the film direction of building a camera. “There is, however, some the Arkhangelsk Regional Museum, the Mardjani Foundation and the Heydar Aliyev well before the end of the 19th impressive Lutyens-designed historian believes, to make it One could say they clicked. evidence of other people taking Foundation. century Friese-Greene had also gravestone in Highgate ceme- clear that Friese-Greene really Friese-Greene and Rudge credit for his ideas.” The purpose of the exhibition was to present some of Nizami’s works to the Russian people, Ilya Zaitsev, deputy general director of the State Museum of Oriental Art said. It was organized in such a way that the visitors could read his poems and the show- cased paintings, miniatures, and carpets help them understand the subjects of his po- ems better, she added. Nizami, who was born in Ganja, Republic of Azerbaijan, made an invaluable con- Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89 tribution to the history of not only Persian poetry, but also world literature. He is mostly known for ‘Khamseh,’ two copies of which are kept in Iran, and was Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for mother of Cher’s character in ‘Moonstruck.’ Another Oscar winner, Viola Davis, inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list in 2011. her performance as a middle-aged mother Dukakis starred in films including ‘Look called Dukakis “the consummate actress” ‘Khamseh’ is a pentalogy of poems written in masnavi verse form (a poem based on who advises her headstrong daughter in the Who’s Talking’ (1989) and sequels with on Twitter. “You made all around you step independent, internally rhyming lines) totaling 30,000 couplets. 1987 film ‘Moonstruck,’ died at age 89. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, ‘Steel Mag- up their game. A joy to work with. Rest It reflects not only the poet’s high skill, but also his ethical and philosophical views. Dukakis passed away at her New York nolias’ (1989) with Shirley MacLaine, Sally well.” These five poems include the didactic work, ‘Makhzan ol-Asrar’ (The Treasury of City home after months of failing health, ac- Field and Julia Roberts, director Woody Al- Other films included ‘The Event’ (2003), Mysteries); the three traditional love stories of ‘Khosro and Shirin,’ ‘Leili and Maj- cording to her agent, Allison Levy, Reuters len’s ‘Mighty Aphrodite’ (1995) and ‘Mr. ‘Better Living’ (1998) with Roy Scheider, nun,’ and ‘Haft Paykar’; and the ‘Eskandar-nameh,’ which records the adventures of reported. Holland’s Opus’ (1995) with Richard Drey- ‘Never Too Late’ (1996) with Cloris Leach- Alexander the Great. Dukakis, the Massachusetts-born daugh- fuss. man, and ‘Dad’ (1989) with Jack Lemmon deadline.com There are various copies of ‘Khamseh’ in Iranian libraries, but the two versions ter of Greek immigrants, worked for de- Dukakis, a master of deadpan humor, also and Ted Danson. maintained at the Central Library of Tehran University and the library of Shahid Mo- cades as a stage, TV and film actor before was nominated for Emmy awards for TV Dukakis in 1962 married Louis Zorich, and who passed away in 2018. She also had tahhari School and Mosque in Tehran are registered by UNESCO. rocketing to fame at age 56 playing the roles in 1991, 1998 and 1999. with whom she had two sons and a daughter four grandchildren.