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As the art world reflects a global trend towards exhibiting and collecting contemporary art from Iran, Asia House is delighted to welcome one of the leading authorities on Persian art, Dr. Hamid Keshmirshekan to speak on the rich and diverse—yet often overlooked—thriving modern art scene in Iran from the 1960s to the 1970s. Providing an astute insight into the background to the dynamic art scene in Iran at that time, his lecture will explore how, from the perspective of the socio-cultural requirements, it reflected in the works of Iranian artists during this period. He raises awareness of their attempt to revive anew “national” identity and cultural patterns which began to emerge at that time.
Through examination of a range of works by artists active during pre-revolutionary Iran, particularly, the neo-traditionalists affiliated with the Saqqa-khaneh art movement in the 1960s (including Zenderoudi, Tanavoli, Pilaram, Qandriz, etc), his talk will shed invaluable new light on the question of identity politics vis-à-vis modernism in Iranian art.
Dr Keshmirshekan will also explore the complex relationship between paradigms of nativism (characterized by the concept of Gharb-zadegi/ Westoxication) and nationalism which formed discourses and noble artistic practices that expand beyond the Saqqa-khaneh movement—whose work often combined ethnic or iconographic elements—to today’s Iranian creatives who Dr Keshmirshekan believes are more inclined to disengage themselves from the nationalist agenda, and to position their art firmly within a global art scene.
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