Source: The Iran Heritage Foundation
Parviz Tanavoli, silkscreen from The Lions of Iran series, 2015
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Organised by: The Iran Heritage Foundation
Date: Thursday 26th November, 17.30 (London, GMT)
Please note this is an online event. Register here for
free.
Description
Venetia Porter is in conversation with Tarlan Rafiee and Yashar Samimi Mofakham, talking about their work as artists, curators and collectors and the current Iranian art scene. Parviz Tanavoli is one of the artists they work with and Yashar will discuss with him his recent book The Virus of Collecting.
Biographies
Venetia Porter is curator of Islamic and Contemporary Middle
East art at the British Museum and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld
Institute of Art. The newly published Reflections:
contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, with Natasha Morris
and Charles Tripp, will be accompanied by an exhibition at the British Museum in
Spring 2021.
Tarlan Rafiee and Yashar Samimi Mofakham are Iranian
artist-curators, and founders of Bread & Salt Project, a curatorial platform,
collection and archive of Iranian pre-modern, modern and contemporary art. They
also run the KA:V Editions, a contemporary limited-edition publication based in
Tehran. Their most recent curatorial project is The
Solace of Lovers which they curated for the Tyrolean State Museum in
Austria.
Parviz Tanavoli is known as 'The father of modern sculpture in
Iran'. A graduate of the Brera Academy, Milan, he was the head of the Sculpture
department at the University of Tehran until 1979. A highly acclaimed artist,
whose work is found in major public and private collections worldwide, recent
exhibitions include Oh Nightingale at the Art Museum, West Vancouver
(2019), Lions of Iran at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2017), and a
major retrospective at the Davis Museum, Boston (2015). As artist and cultural
historian he has published widely on his own work and the crafts of Iran. The
Virus of Collecting is published in Persian with a forthcoming English edition
edited by Venetia Porter. Parviz Tanavoli lives between Tehran and Vancouver.
Tickets & info
This is a free online talk. Register here for
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For any inquiries please contact info@iranheritage.org