25 Jul - 25 Aug, 2024
Statement:
ADVOCARTSY’s Summer 2024 group exhibition, VINTAGE MODERN, explores the diverse ways in which contemporary artists of Iranian origin frame and examine the past through the lens of the present.///
Iran’s complex sociopolitical, mythological, and art-historical traditions are recalled, reinterpreted and reclaimed via a wide range of creative expressions.
Each of the represented artists conjures up the past in their own manner – be it through theme, technique, imagery, style, material, and/or subject matter and dispatches it to speak in their own voice.
Placed in a modern context, the past is not only invoked but interrogated and illuminated in new and unexpected ways.
Whether they are referencing elements of Qajar painting (as do Barrangi & Abbasy) or portraying historical personages (as do Afshar & Afsoon), each artist brings their distinct perspective to this process; Vintage Modern showcases these disparate voices while also highlighting how they remain organically in dialogue with each other.
Ultimately the exhibition speaks to the way memory works and how a shared cultural history can be processed and iterated in myriad ways.
Larger themes like the elasticity of time and the mechanics of remembering also emerge, indicating a congruity of experience that transcends nationality and approaches the universal.
Artists
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- Parastou Forouhar -
- Afsoon -
- Delbar Shahbaz -
- Samira Abbassy -
- Pouya Afshar -
- Nahid Haghighat -
- Kourosh Beigpour -
- Mobina Nouri -
- Hadi Salehi -
- Shadi Yousefian - view more artists
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