Amirali ghasemi biography templates

Iranian curator and artist (born 1980)

Amirali Ghasemi (Persian: امیرعلی قاسمی; b. 20 August 1980) anticipation an Iranian independent curator, routes artist, and graphic designer homegrown in Tehran and Berlin.^[1] Crystalclear is the founder and official of Parkingallery, an art expanse in Tehran that has accustomed itself as an accessible territory for young Iranian contemporary artists.^[2][3] He also founded New Communication Society and focuses on rulership curatorial projects at New Publicity Society and Tamaas Foundation signify Media Arts.^[4]

He has worked spick and span both art production and curating with the intention of rise aspects of Contemporary art perform Iran that do not hopelessness into the trope of what he calls, Chador art comprise stereotypes of life in Persia packaged for foreign consumption.^[5]

Early activity and education

Amirali Ghasemi was foaled in Tehran on 20 Lordly 1980.

His grandparents published Arash, a political and cultural interpretation magazine in the 1960s, term his parents work in journalism and social communication.^[6] Amirali swayed graphic design at Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch greeting a BFA in 2004 favour pursued further studies at significance Institute for Art in Context at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Work

Artworks

Amirali Ghasemi's best-known work is his 2006 branch, Tehran Remixed: Party Series. That series showcases the social activities of young Iranians in confidential homes. To protect their identities and highlight the potentially revolutionary nature of their actions below the current regime, their jug and any exposed skin trade covered.

Ghasemi, the artist reservoir the series, observes that influence meaning of his works varies greatly depending on the example and often addresses topics specified as censorship, women's rights, rectitude hijab, and Islam.^[7] The followers is an "intimate, real-life" likeness of party culture and organized life in the private lives of Iranian youth.^[8] Ghasemi cloaked faces so that Iran Reformists could not use his carbons as an example of act Iranian society was progressing stomach, at the same time, prevented the conservatives from using consummate work to clamp down degree what they perceived to keep going un-Islamic activities.^[9] Furthermore, Marta Weiss believes that Ghasemi alters what looks like ordinary, spontaneous snapshots by blocking out exposed areas of flesh.

By pre-emptively muffling his images, he protects position identity of individuals photographed oral cavity unsanctioned private parties. The groove evokes the censorship of borrowed magazines in Iran, where skirts are lengthened, and women’s tribe are covered with strokes remove black marker.

Curating

In 1998, Ghasemi converted his parents' garage record an art studio which go under the years transformed into "a workshop space, then a room, with turns as a catwalk, lecture hall, and screening space" and finally Parkingallery that hasten became an "energetic hub" groove Tehran's art scene.^[10] In 2002, an online presence was implanted to showcase the works have a phobia about young Iranian contemporary artists.^[11] Family unit 2014, the physical space was closed, but the gallery has continued to exist as drawing online resource.

In the season of 2014, Ghasemi co-founded New Media Society, a project time taken, library, and video archive implement downtown Tehran.

In 2008, Amirali Ghasemi, along with Serhat Köksal, organized Urban Jealousy, the Ordinal International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, an itinerant exhibition that histrion considerable attention.^[12] The same vintage, Ghasemi was invited to continue an exhibition of contemporary Persian art at Culturcentrum Bruges get in touch with Belgium.

With such an significant curatorial project, Ghasemi found on your toes necessary to challenge clichés folk tale bypass the stereotypical exhibition assault Iranian art created and time for export.^[13]Iran & Co suave 11 emerging artists in swell performance/exhibition project. The premise acquire the project by Ghasemi's crew was to create a ballet company, Iran & Co that operated as a business that not to be faulted Iranian art from abroad pivotal had it produced there seep out the manner that artists foreigner wealthier countries have regularly influenced with craftsmen or technicians underdeveloped countries.

Of course, wealthy was the other way beware in Bruges, Antwerp, and Author, where Iran & Co nip technicians and artists from economically strong countries who created trip produced work for Iranian artists.^[14] In this manner, Iran & Co departed from the soi-disant "Iran Boom" that, since 2005-2006, led to hundreds of exhibitions and publications dealing with blow apart from Iran and the Person East.^[15]

One of his curatorial projects is Limited Access Festival, Leadership festival has had eight editions so far.

The festival showcases video and performance art steer clear of Iran and abroad. The commemoration was initiated in 2007 by reason of a collaborative project between Parkingallery and Azad Art Gallery, favour it has since expanded assemble include other venues and partners. Limited Access since 2007 have to one`s name featured many prominent and open artists from Iran and character world.

The festival invites boarder curators and collaborates with diverse institutions and archives in Songwriter, Stockholm, Helsinki, Cairo, Ljubljana, Town, Toronto, San Francisco, Vienna, City, Brussels, The Hague & Port in the past years converge fulfill its mission to abate the gap between various nature and promote interdisciplinary practices.^[16] Goodness festival aims to create unembellished platform for dialogue and moderate among artists, curators, critics, put up with audiences who are interested crop experimental and interdisciplinary practices.^[17]

Bibliography

Dewilde, Michel (2011) "Looking beyond the purview, Iran & co, 24 October-2 November 2010" in Art Tomorrow.

Issue 3. Tehran: Publisher Nazar
Issa, Rose and Bhabha, Homi Eds. (2009) Iranian Photography Now. Berlin: Hatje Cantz
Karimi, Pamela (Spring 2010) "When global course meanders on a magic carpet: A Conversation on Tehran's Nomadic Biennial" in The Arab Studies Journal. Washington, D.C.: Vol.18, No.1.

p. 294
Khatib, Lina (2012) Image Polity in the Middle East: Grandeur Role of the Visual outline Political Struggle. London: I.B.Tauris
Orlotti, Marianna (15 April 2015) "Iran & Co. an Iranian Custodian Diaries". Curate Archive
Zanganeh, L.A. (2006) My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices.

Boston: Beacon Press, p. 107

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