“Fajr” Visual Arts Festival
Saturday through Thursday
Gallery No. 1
Visiting hours of gallery:
10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Friday:
2:00 to 7:00 pm
Winter of Visual Arts in Niavaran
Galleries
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Photo Exhibition of Kamran Adl – January
1 – 7 Gallery No. 1
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Commemoration of Jafar Petgar – January
14 – 27 Gallery No. 1
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Painting Exhibition of Rafiee – January
15 – 22 Gallery No. 2
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Fajr Visual Arts Festival – February 1 to
March 3 Gallery No. 1
“Ahmad Reza Rafiee” Painting Exhibition
Saturday through Friday
Gallery No. 2
Selection of “Spiritual Art Exhibition”
Sunday through Friday
Gallery No. 1
"Video
Installation"
Gallery # 1
"Fatemeh Abbasi" Calligraphy Exhibition
Gallery # 2
Galleries' visiting hours:
Weekdays: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Tuesday & Friday: 2:00 to 7:00 pm
"Saeed Abdolhosseini" painting exhibition
Saturday & Sunday
Gallery No. 2
"Giti Norouzian" photography exhibition
Opening: Wednesday at 4:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
"Annual of Painters' Society" Exhibition
Opening: Thursday at 4:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Galleries' visiting hours: weekdays: 10:00 am to
7:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 7:00 pm
"Farajollah atabaki" Painting Exhibition
Saturday through Tuesday – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery
no. 2
"Farajollah atabaki" Painting Exhibition
Opening: Monday at 5:00 pm
Visiting hours on weekdays: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, Friday:
2:00 to 7:00 pm
Gallery no. 2
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"Mohammad Salahshoor" Calligraphy Exhibition
Saturday & Sunday from
10:00 am to 7:00pm
"Zolghadr" Glass
Painting
Saturday & Sunday from
10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
"Saeed Moayerizade"
Miniature & Painting Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday at
4:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am to
7:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 7:00 pm
Main Gallery
"Nader Shamloo"
Painting Exhibition
Opening on Thursday at
4:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 7:00
pm
Main Gallery
Ahmad Hessami
was born in Tehran in 1952, in 1970 he moved in Italy,
Florence, to study art and architecture, in 1978
received the, doctor in architecture, degree from
university of Florence, in 1979 obtained the post
graduate diploma in restoration of historical monuments,
in 1979 started to follow the Leonardo Savioli studio
and at the same time working and collaborating with ach.
Corradetti designing; football stadium, sport centers,
cultural, commercial and residential buildings in 1984
he started to be interested in city environment and in
particular way the relations between the birds and city,
in 1988 designed and built three pigeon towers for city
of Prato.
In1985 was invited by prof. Galli to collaborate with
the faculty of architecture in the University of
Florence this collaboration continued till 1992, at the
same time working on several environmental ideas and
designing different shops and gallery in Tuscany
Since 1981 exhibited paintings and collages in different
art galleries in Tuscany, in Pisa awarded in collage and
painting; presenting ideas in art and architecture
collaging two different geometrical patterns and scales
one in natural environment; biological structure and the
other one the computer chip’s structure to present the
combination of biology and technology or biotechnology
structure or organism, in 1995 and 1997 in two different
exhibitions in Florence presented collage work and
focused on chaos theme .
In 1992 was invited by Iranian private company to design
a residential community in Mashad moving back to Iran
started to collaborate with Tarh va abady consulting
Ing. And architect. On Navab project, Niavaran
residential high-rises.
Presently teaching architecture and at the same time
working and designing art and architecture in Tehran.
info@ahmadhessami.com
www.ahmadhessami.com
Artworks presented at Niavaran Cultural Center are a
representation of Ahmad Hessami's thirty years of work
and research involved in a comparative study of City
Organism & Plant Organism, entitled "Shahr-e Ma-h".
Study
of plants or vegetative organism starts with a
telescopic observation of a part of the stem of a plant
showcasing its beautiful and strange world with
similarities to the urban or city structures but with
different scope and measurements. These two organisms
have functional similarities. The complex world of
plants has communication system similar to a city
organism such as roadways. The cellular structures
within a plant are organized in an almost geometrical
design that appears as highways, streets, alleys and
structural blocks.
According
to Professor Paolo Soleri, the distinguished lecturer in
the College of Architecture at Arizona State University,
“The only difference between these two organisms is that
the city organism consists of thousands of different
minds and thoughts".
Converting
the measurement of plant organism to a city one,
combining these two geometrical structures and treating
them with another organism similar to the memory chips
of computers as technological elements, are pretexts to
produce an abstract biotechnological geometric system.
Herein, we observe different variants of a composition
with an accurate arrangement. Analyzing, recombining and
developing these elements considering new functions that
have been inspired by city evolutions such as:
Juxtaposition, repetition, lamination, inverting,
combining, conversing, wedge and rupture and…
These
functions have been used as a term and technique for
design, installation and production of the works. The
result is the production of graphical frames which
determine a complicated organism similar to a
supra-city's. For the first time, since 1977, copy
machines have been taken into action for this
performance of graphical artworks.
Since 1977 he has researched various fields of
art and architecture, ultimately, carving new approaches
on this subject. At the same time, while primarily
focusing on the comparative study of
City Organism & Plant Organism, he completed his
Doctorate thesis under the tutelage and direction of
Professor Leonardo Savioli the famous Italian architect
and town planner and the principle of the Architectural
Research Institute of University of Florence in
Italy.
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Exhibitions and Conferences
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1981- Personal art exhibition, Pisa, Italy
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1982- Viviani award for painting and graphic Marina di
Pisa, Italy
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1983- Collective art exhibition, Pisa, Italy
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1984- Collective art exhibition, Florence, Italy
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1985- Collective sculpture exhibition, Florence, Italy
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1995- Personal art exhibition, sponsored by ATON ,
Florence, Italy
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1996- Personal art exhibition, Florence, Italy
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1997- Personal art exhibition, Tehran Barg Gallery, Iran
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1998- Biennale art exhibition, Tehran, Iran
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1999- International art exhibition Leopolda Museum
Florence
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2000- Collective art exhibition, Italian library,
Tehran, Iran
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2007- Collective art in Tehran museum of contemporary
art ; Manifestations of
Contemporary art in Iran
Publications:
2007- Memari va sharsazi, presenting Prof. Leonardo
Savioli
2007- Peter Eisenman kankash dar ayande, published by
Nashre Nazar, Tehran
1991- Il laboratorio (the pigeon towers), Published by
ATON s, r,l
1988- La casa piu bella del mondo, architectural
competition, published by Europan, R.Emiglia
1985- Riuso urbano, university works, published by
Alinea, Florence
1985- Il labirinto, architectural competition, published
by Grafus, Bologna
www.ahmadhessami.com
info@ahmadhessami.com
"Farsad Labbaf" Painting
Exhibition
Saturday through Friday
from 10:00am to 7:00pm
Friday: 2:00 to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
"Iran's Literary
Illustration Festival"
Saturday through Tuesday
from 10:00am to 7:00pm
Main Gallery
"Ahmad Hesami" Painting
Exhibition
Opening on Friday at 4:00
pm
Main Gallery
"From Damavand to Kevir" Swedish artist and
geographer Sven Hedin's photography
Exhibition
Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 7:00 pm
Gallery # 1
"Calligraphy-Painting" Exhibition
(Mohammad Payravi)
Saturday through Thursday 10:00 am to
7:00 pm
Gallery # 2
Persian Women's Ceramic Exhibition
Saturday through Friday 10:00 to 8:00
pm
Gallery No. 1
Friday: 2:00 to 8:00 pm
The longest painting of the world
10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Monday through Friday from 10:00 am
to 8:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 8:00 pm
"Visual Arts" Festival
Opening: Monday 5:00 to 9:00 pm
Tuesday through Thursday from 10:00
am to 8:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 8:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
"Woodcarving, Mosaic, Wooden
dimensional works" group exhibition
Opening: Wednesday, 5:00 to 8:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to 8:00 pm
"Daheshpur Charity Exhibition" for cancer afflicted
Saturday through Friday – 10:00 am to
7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Opening of "Koodakan-e-Kar Supporting
Society"
Friday 5:00 to 9:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
"Seyed Ali Razavi" painting exhibition
Saturday and Sunday
from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
"Puya Aryanpur"
painting exhibition
Saturday through
Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 to
7:00 pm
Main Gallery
"Morteza Darebaghi"
painting exhibition
Saturday through
Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Main Gallery
"Seyed Ali Razavi"
painting exhibition
Saturday through
Friday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (Friday: 2:00 pm –
7:00 pm)
Gallery No. 2
"Painting" group exhibition
Saturday – Wednesday
– 10:00 am to 7:00
Opening of "Morteza
Darrebaghi" Painting Exhibition
Friday May 18 – 5:00
to 9:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
"Tea House" painting
exhibition
Monday – Friday
Gallery No. 2
"Group Painting
Exhibition"
Opening: Thursday –
5:00 am to 9:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 – 7:00
pm
Gallery No. 1
The Table
of Visual Arts Exhibitions
1386
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Gallery No. 2 |
Gallery No. 1 |
Time |
Title of the Exhibition |
Row |
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April 13 – 20
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Naser Arasteh
Painting Exhibition |
1 |
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* |
* |
April 24 – 26 |
National Prize Plan
Architectural Competition |
2 |
Possible changes of the above chart will be
announced by Public Relations Dept.
Reservation: 22803631, 22287081&2
Our Site: www.nacfiran.com
"International Architecture Competition" – National
Prize
Tuesday through
Thursday – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Painting exhibition
of "Naser Arasteh"
Saturday through
Friday – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Friday from 2:00 to
7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
"Ashura Painting
Exhibition"
Saturday through
Monday – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Please note that on holidays the gallery works from
2:00 to 7:00 pm
Have great and happy
holidays
"Seven Aspects"
Exhibition (Saling visual arts artworks, mainly
paintings)
Saturday through
Friday
10:00 am – 7:00 pm
(Holidays: 2:00 – 7:00 pm)
Gallery No. 1
Opening of Abstract
paintings of Mostapha Dashti
Thursday from 4:00 to 9:00 pm at the
main gallery
Saturday: 10:00 to 7:30 pm
Opening of "Seven Aspects" Exhibition
(Saling visual arts artworks)
Friday Feb. 23 at 5:30 pm
Gallery No. 1 & 2
The Table of Visual Arts Exhibitions
On the Second Half of the Year 1385
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Gallery No. 2 |
Gallery No. 1 |
Time |
Title of the Exhibition |
Row |
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Sept. 19 – Oct. 3 |
"The Army of Mohammad the Messenger of
God"
(Group Photo Exhibition) |
1 |
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Oct. 8 - 22 |
"In the Name of God & the Holy Names"
(Visual Arts) |
2 |
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Oct. 29 – Nov. 5
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Calligraphies of Kayvan Sarlakfar |
3 |
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Oct. 29 – Nov. 5 |
Group Exhibition of
Deaf Artists |
4 |
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* |
Nov. 8 - 15 |
Annual of the Painter Artists' Society |
5 |
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Nov. 20 - 26 |
Raoof Haghighi
(Painting) |
6 |
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Nov. 23 – Dec. 13 |
Monir Shahroodi
(Geometrical Mirror Works) |
7 |
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Nov. 30 – Dec. 8 |
Amir Khataee
(Photo Paintings) |
8 |
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Dec. 12 – Dec. 20 |
Mohammad Mahdi Moghaddam
(Calligraphy) |
9 |
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* |
Dec. 17 - 19 |
Artistic Training Centers' Painting
Exhibition |
10 |
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Feb. 8 |
Mostafa Dashti
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11 |
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* |
* |
Feb. 23 – March 8 |
Seven Visions
(Sale of art works) |
12 |
Past programs
Performing programs
Future programs
Possible changes of the above chart
will be announced by Public Relations Dept.
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Music Dept. e-mail:
Niavaran_music@hotmail.com
The exhibition of
"Hossein the Messenger of Love"
Saturday through Friday
from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Monday, Tuesday and
Friday from 2:00 to 7:00 pm
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Fajr Music Festival
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Main Hall
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“Mirror art works based on geometric Islamic designs”
Monir Shahroodi (Farmanfarmaean)
Saturday through Wednesday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Mud glyph Exhibition of “Mohammad Mahdi Moghadam”
Opening: Tuesday from 4:00 to 8:00 pm
Wednesday & Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
(On Fridays gallery is open from 2:00 to 7:00 pm)
Gallery No. 2
“Mirror art works based on geometric Islamic designs”
Monir Shahroodi (Farmanfarmaean)
Saturday through Friday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 1
Painting Exhibition of “Raoof Haghighi”
Saturday & Sunday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
“Amir Abbas Khataee” Photo Exhibition
Opening: Thursday on 4:30 pm
Friday: 2:00 – 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
Painting
Exhibition of “Raoof Haghighi”
Opening: Monday from 4:00 to 8:00 pm
Tuesday through Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Friday: 2:00 – 7:00 pm
Gallery No. 2
Painting Exhibition of “Besm-e-llah and
Asma-e-Motebarekeh”
(In
the name of God and the divine nominal)
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (Friday: 2:00 – 7:00 pm
– This Sunday the
Gallery will be closed)
Gallery No.1
Painting
Exhibition of “Besm-e-llah and Asma-e-Motebarekeh”
(In the name of God and the divine nominal)
Opening on Sunday at 6:00 pm
Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
(Friday: 2:00 – 7:00 pm)
Gallery No.1
1- Compositional and space artworks
Exhibition – Gallery No. 1 – 10:00 am to 20:30 pm
2- Photo Exhibition of “The Old Bam”
– 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
3- Photo Gallery of “Naghsh-e-Noor”
by Alireza Rajaieh – Gallery No. 2 - 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
4- Opening of Farahnaz Panah’s
Painting Exhibition – Gallery No. 2 – 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
5- Cultural Days of Indonasia –
Gallery No. 1 & 2 – 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
6- Photo Exhibition “Paris – Vienna”
by Mr. Ziaeean – Gallery No. 1 – 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
7- “Doolat-e-Eshgh” Painting
Exhibition on abilities of the devotee myrmidons (Janbazan) Gallery
No. 1 – 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
8- “Unity & Continunity” – Gallery
No. 2 – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Past programs
Performing programs
Future programs
Photo Exhibition “Paris,
Vienna”
Pezhman Ziaeean – Gallery No. 1
Saturday through Friday August 12 –
18 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Friday from 2:00 am to 8:00 pm (The
exhibition will be on view until August 19)
Niavaran
Artistic Creations Foundation
Respects your
attendance at “International Women Festival”
Coinciding with the blessed birthday
Of Holy Fatima during July 15 & 17, 2006.
Painting Exhibition
Farahnaz Panah
Opening: Saturday June 17 (5:00 – 8:00 pm)
Sunday through Friday - June 18 – 24 from
10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Gallery #
2
Table of the
programs
Niavaran Artistic
Creations Foundation
January 21 –
February 19
2006
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Date |
Visual Arts |
Time |
Place |
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Jan. 21 -
27 |
Photo
Exhibition
(Culture,
Art and Nature)
Danial
Mostafaee
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10:00 am
8:00 pm
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Gallery # 2 |
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Jan. 23 –
Feb. 1
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Painting
Exhibition
(In support
of Cancer Patients-Charity group of Behnam Daheshpoor) |
10:00 am
7:00 pm
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Gallery # 1
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Jan. 29 –
Feb. 4 |
Water color
Painting Exhibition
Pante-a
Sirus |
10:00 am
7:00 pm
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Gallery # 2
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Feb. 12 –
Feb. 19 |
Calligraphy
Exhibition
Nader
Abedini |
10:00 am
7:00 pm
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Gallery # 2
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Winter Programs of the Gallery
1-
Renewal of Persian Contemporary
Realism & Hyper Realism Exhibition January 5 – 20 Gallery # 1 & 2
2-
Danial Mostafaee Photography
Exhibition January 21 – 27 Gallery # 2
3-
Painting Exhibition on
supporting the Cancer afflicts – Behnam Daheshpoor Charity Group –
January 23 – February 1 Gallery # 1
4-
Color Painting Exhibition –
Pantea Siroos – Jan. 29 – Feb. 4 – Gallery # 2
5-
Ashoora Exhibition (Narrated by
contemporary painters) – Feb. 4 – March 16 Gallery # 1
6-
Calligraphy Exhibition of Nader
Abedini – Feb. 12 – Feb. 19 Gallery # 2
7-
Students Illustration Exhibition
– Feb. 21 – Feb. 25 Gallery # 2
8-
Painting Exhibition of Arman
Yaghoobpoor & Seyed Ali Saydani – Feb. 27 – March 6 Gallery # 2
December 11, 2005 in
Niavaran Cultural Center
Opening of the
exhibition will be on Sunday Dec. 11 at 5:00 PM presenting a great
collection of our country’s contemporary artists’ collection in
Niavaran Cultural Center’s gallery.
Dr. S. M. Fadavi the
president of Niavaran Center, while mentioning the up mentioned news
denoted that: Artistic management indicates preparing suitable field
for all different groups and styles of art in a pure and healthy
atmosphere for the transcendental cultural and artistic improvement.
As in the improved countries such as U.S.A or in Europe, doing so
has provided an increase of quality and quantity of art works for
the artists.
He says although we live
in a modern period, old styles of painting such as Realism have
their own interests. According to the information and news,
simultaneously with creating modern arts by modern artists of the
world, a new wave inclined to older styles such as Impressionism and
Realism is seen in different societies.
The president of
Niavaran Cultural Center expressing his regrets, said:
Unfortunately, in the past decade, the artistic managements,
exaggerating in supporting and backing up the modernism artists,
have caused seclusion for many artists in other styles. With no
doubt, Modernism is one of today’s prominent art specifications in
the world and also in our country, but there is no reason to seclude
or eliminate other artistic processes, while supporting the
Modernism art flow. Fadavi denoted that performing the Realism
painting exhibition on December 2005 and January 2006 in Niavaran
Cultural Center aims to introduce distinguished painters of
expertise and academic realm of Realism, critiquing and analyzing
this artistic style in contemporary Iran.
Fortunately, most of the
distinguished Persian Realistic painters acclaimed and participated
in this project which harbingers a rich and valuable exhibition.
Dr. A. Norouzitalab, the
curator of this exhibition noted that Niavaran Artistic Creations
Foundation is preparing to perform an exposition of Realism & Hyper
Realism Persian contemporary painters from Dec. 11, 2005 through
Jan. 5, 2006.
He mentioned that the
aim of this project is to pose the artistic abilities and academic
values of Naturalism painting in Persian contemporary art and honor
the painting artists. The expertise – artistic board of this
exhibition includes members of scientific council and experts of
cultural and artistic centers and universities of the country whom
have the responsibility of selecting the art works for the
exhibition.
Norouzitalab denoted: We
expect that a collection of selected art works of this exhibition
with descriptions and details of each work will be published as an
exquisite book. There are also expertise lectures and conferences on
the art of painting going to be performed.
Prolongation of
Realism & Hyper Realism Painting Exhibition
In Niavaran Artistic
Creations Foundation
In the past 24 days,
more than 9,000 visitors visited this exhibition.
The exhibition was
prolonged until January 20. This project is being held in two
galleries of Niavaran Cultural Center with 186 tableaus of 96
artists which reviews 4 generations of Persian Realism painting.
The oldest work of this
exhibition is titled by “Tired Butler” which has been created by
“Alireza Arzhangi” on 1922. Among the visitors, other than the
renowned painters of different styles of painting in our country,
foreign tourists, cross-country student groups, and artists such as
A. Kiarostami, Dr. Elahi Ghomshehee and…have visited the exhibition.
This exposition will be
on every day from 10:00 AM through 8:00 PM (holidays from 2:00 PM
until 8:00 PM) until Jan. 20, 2006.
The Third Seminar on Art and
Globalization: Iran and Asia Minar
The Second Artistic Festival
of Koran
October 8th
until November 3rd, 2005-10-29
Painting, Space, New
Arts, Music, Theater
Opening: Friday October
7th, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.
Public Visit: October 8th
until November 3rd, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
The Treasures of Galleries:
Niavaran Cultural
Center
Visual Arts
Development Institute
Atashzad
Elahe
Dorsa
Saad Abad
Shahed
Shafagh
Laleh
Momayyez
Haft Samar
Ghan Baygi
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works of this exhibition please click here
Arcade
of Artists
Public Invitation for
the fans of Painting & Sculpture
Interested of works of
art (painting and sculpture) can visit the artists and purchase
their works for ten Fridays, from August 19th until
October 14th, 2005.
Niavaran Artistic
Creations Foundation
40
German visitations of the Treasures of Tehran Galleries & Arcade of
Artists
Art & Nature
A Photo Exposition of
Art & Nature
Opening of the
exhibition: November 7th
Ending & the Granting of
presents: November 12th
Ending of Pasdaran Road,
Opposite of Niavaran Park
Niavaran Cultural
Center’s Gallery
Exhibition of Coffehouse
Painters
14 May 2005 Niavaran
Artistic
Workshop With Presence Of
Masters Of Coffehouse Painting
Afrique et création
Centre Culturel Niavaran – Téhéran
27 avril – 4 mai 2005
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Dutch Contemporary Painting An
Exhhibition by Hyper Realist Artists
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Exhibition
of Conceptual Art
Abi-e
Bikaran-e Honar (Blue Expanse of Art)
Niavaran
Cultural Center
Saturday,
12 February
An
exhibition of conceptual works by the Iranian art group Abi-e Bikaran-e
Honar will open at the Niavaran Cultural Center on Saturday, 12 February
2005. According to a report by the Public Relations of NACF, 35 artists will
display their works with the aim to present the group at the Niavaran Cultural
Center.
Sculptures,
ceramic, painting, and conceptual works of art as well as mime performance
will be on view as of 13 February. The group leader, Jafar Najibi, says that
the show includes 30 works of ceramic, 15 sculptures and relief works, and 150
paintings. Dramatic and conceptual art will be on display in the other section
of the show. The paintings range between 40 x 50 cm and 150 x 200 cm in size.
“The theme of the exhibition is free and each artist has created a work of art
based on his/her social and political background”, commented Najibi, “however,
a part of the show has been dedicated to blue color.”
With an aim
to acknowledge Iranian pioneering artists and educate a younger generation
of art students, Abi-e Bikaran-e Honar was established two years ago with
only 12 members. Today, the group includes 50 artists. The exhibition, which
is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts
and the Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, will continue until 22
February.
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Zoljenah at the Niavaran
Cultural Center
Artistic images of Zoljenah - the
faithful, white horse of the crimson desert of Karbala - in the artworks of
the group Abi-e Bikaran-e Honar have bestowed a spiritual ambience upon
the Niavaran Cultural Center.
The exhibition opened five days
ago at the Niavaran Cultural Center to showcase the group’s most recent
achievements. These works include pottery, sculpture, relief work, and
painting. One hundred and fifty paintings on the walls of the three-storied
exhibition space at the Niavaran Cultural Center are inviting spectators to
view them. The paintings relate stories of autumn, spring, father, etc.
However, once you set foot in the lower level of the gallery, you will see
works that mesmerize you.
Under a shower of vicious arrows
in Karbala desert, a lonely Zoljenah is searching for its dear rider. In
another painting, Zoljenah is enjoying its companionship with heavenly hand of
Abolfazl (PBUH). Painting on metal, Iran Jahanshahi has made the silent soul
of copper let out a cry that is resounding throughout Iran these days. Farideh
Tathiri Moqadam’s pottery, with patterns of fish that seem to be swimming in
their small plates, and Manijeh Armin’s pottery that seems to have crammed
houses of Masouleh into a jug, comprise the other section of the show. The
material is the same, but the theme is different.“We are a group that holds
thematic exhibitions”, says Manijeh Armin, “Previous themes include mother,
cultural heritage, religious art, and nature. However, given the large number
of participating artists in this exhibition and sufficient space of the
gallery, we decided not to establish a theme, though, our proposed theme was
myth.” She believes that there is no need to focus on one theme in
various exhibitions, but it must not lead to haphazard arrangement of the
shows.
In another part of the
exhibition, works can be seen that have been displayed in previous shows.
Armin admits this and says, “A number of works are by young artists who used
them as their academic projects and that is why they have not expressed their
own ideas and perspectives.”
A jury panel selects the group
members and their works are included in exhibitions upon screening and
approval by the panel. Three metal chairs have sheltered birds of the same
stuff in another section of the exhibition. The fish move in the unmoving and
solid sculptural water, mother horse shelters her young offspring, and
mythical stories are related in two wooden frames that look like the split
doors of a children’s wardrobe. A kitchen ventilator, on which an image of
Akvan the ghoul (a mythical figure in Shahnameh) is seen, has been juxtaposed
with other works.
The group Abi-e Bikaran-e
Honar endeavors to interact with artists of other countries. To achieve
this objective, the group will hold an exhibition in Turkey in April 2005.
The current show at the Niavaran
Cultural Center will continue until 22 February.
Buds of Bam
An Exhibition of
Photographs
on the Occasion of the 1st
Anniversary of the
Earthquake in Bam
25 Dec. 2004 – 9 Jan. 2005
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Art & Worship World
Prize
Ministry
of Culture and Islamic Guidance after evaluating and consulting with
experts and competence Iranian artists and cultural figures has
initiated with Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation, in photography
field in domain of Art and Worship World Prize, in June 2003.
For this purpose
www.artwp.org was established to inform thousands of
photographers and over three hundreds photo-agencies in Iran and abroad.
At the posted deadline over one thousand two
hundreds photographers from: Germany, France, Croavassi, Syria, United States of
America, Australia, Sudan, England, India, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Holland, New
Zealand, Bangladesh, Ireland, Ukraine, Switzerland, Greece, Montenegro, Brazil,
Mexico, Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Taiwan, Laos, Argentina, Armenia, Romania,
Turkey, Italy, Spain, Norway, Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Japan has
participated and over 5000 pictures were received.
Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation will
display along with Art and Worship World Prize, pictures of master
photographer from France, Iran, Mexico, Italy, Germany, England and North
America for appreciation of visitors.
