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Shulamit Nazarian Gallery: Fereydoun Ave - Postcards from Iranestan
Fereydoun Ave: Postcards from Iranestan
Fereydoun Ave, considered the godfather of contemporary Iranian art, will present new work from his ongoing "Rostam" series, in which he explores masculinity and the cultural psyche. Ave, one of the most important figures to emerge from the first generation of contemporary Iranian artists in the 1970s, continues to develop his longstanding mixed-media collage "Rostam" series, in which the artist uses a found magazine clipping of a wrestler from a sports magazine to represent the epic mythological Iranian hero in an attempt to locate and balance the opposing concepts of male chivalry and chauvinism. In this new work, Rostam is given a distinct dynamism as the figure is repeated and overlaid, as if to animate and add dimension to his flattened image. Rostam's arms, the source of his brawn and the tools of his strength, radiate around him like butterfly's wings. A mushroom cloud, the contentious symbol of the atomic bomb and the visual marker of its very real devastation, propels Rostam forward. Ave's acute pairing of images creates a profound visual puzzle, decipherable through the deep reckoning of associations and histories.
Shulamit Nazarian Gallery: Fereydoun ...
Date and Time
Thursday Sep 10, 2015 Thursday Oct 29, 2015
Opening Reception:
Thursday
September 10, 2015
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition:
September 10 through October 29, 2015
Location
Shulamit Nazarian Gallery
17 North Venice Blvd.
Venice 90291
310.281.0961
Fees/Admission
Free
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310.281.0961