My old friend Parviz Tanavoli is one of the greatest experts on
Persian Rugs and Weaving. He is also
Iran’s greatest living sculptor. It is good to see him receive the success he
deserves. JBOC.jpg)
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, USA will present Parviz Tanavoli, the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the influential Iranian artist's work to be mounted by a US museum.
On view from February 10 to June 7, 2015, the exhibition will survey the breadth and richness of the artist's career from the 1960s to the present day, marking the 50th anniversary of Tanavoli's famed 'Heech' project, newswise.com reported.
Critically acclaimed and widely acknowledged as the "father of modern Iranian sculpture", Tanavoli's trajectory has spanned east and west as he has innovated ambitiously across media. Best known as a sculptor, his expansive oeuvre also includes painting, printmaking, ceramics, rugs, and jewelry. As well, he is a highly regarded collector, scholar and poet.
Based in Tehran and Vancouver, Tanavoli (b.1937) has been a leading influence among a generation defined by its commitment to artistic practices that are both modern and distinctly Iranian.
According to Fischman, "Tanavoli has refined a complex system of symbols and motifs into a distinctive visual language, fusing Persian traditions with pop sensibility. As well, his work entwines profound sensitivity to language, formal clarity, and conceptual engagement into a forcefully original artistic practice."
Tanavoli returns again and again to the Poet, the Prophet, and the Lovers, to walls and windows, locks, and birds—figures that stand on metaphorical borders, and exist aesthetically between traditions of realism and abstraction. Among his many long-standing projects, Heech—initiated in February 1965, and set to mark a fiftieth anniversary with the opening of the Davis exhibition—perhaps best exemplifies Tanavoli's work. The artist treats the calligraphic script for 'Heech', the Persian word for 'nothing' or 'nothingness' to multiple expressions in three dimensions and variable materials—from delicate jewelry to polished bronze and hi-gloss fiberglass sculpture. The concept of 'Heech', as Tanavoli explains, is abstract, philosophical, and celebratory; he says, "Heech is not nothing. It has a body, a shape, but also a meaning behind it."
Internationally recognized as one of Iran's foremost artists, Tanavoli's work has been presented around the world, and has recently been featured in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Asia Society and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.
Critically acclaimed and widely acknowledged as the "father of modern Iranian sculpture", Tanavoli's trajectory has spanned east and west as he has innovated ambitiously across media. Best known as a sculptor, his expansive oeuvre also includes painting, printmaking, ceramics, rugs, and jewelry. As well, he is a highly regarded collector, scholar and poet.
Based in Tehran and Vancouver, Tanavoli (b.1937) has been a leading influence among a generation defined by its commitment to artistic practices that are both modern and distinctly Iranian.
According to Fischman, "Tanavoli has refined a complex system of symbols and motifs into a distinctive visual language, fusing Persian traditions with pop sensibility. As well, his work entwines profound sensitivity to language, formal clarity, and conceptual engagement into a forcefully original artistic practice."
Tanavoli returns again and again to the Poet, the Prophet, and the Lovers, to walls and windows, locks, and birds—figures that stand on metaphorical borders, and exist aesthetically between traditions of realism and abstraction. Among his many long-standing projects, Heech—initiated in February 1965, and set to mark a fiftieth anniversary with the opening of the Davis exhibition—perhaps best exemplifies Tanavoli's work. The artist treats the calligraphic script for 'Heech', the Persian word for 'nothing' or 'nothingness' to multiple expressions in three dimensions and variable materials—from delicate jewelry to polished bronze and hi-gloss fiberglass sculpture. The concept of 'Heech', as Tanavoli explains, is abstract, philosophical, and celebratory; he says, "Heech is not nothing. It has a body, a shape, but also a meaning behind it."
Internationally recognized as one of Iran's foremost artists, Tanavoli's work has been presented around the world, and has recently been featured in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Asia Society and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.
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