Tirdad zolghadr biography channel
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Lisa Farjam
We have attempted to take on envy’s ambiguities in this issue. Tirdad Zolghadr pleads for a reevaluation of envy with a curious set of observations as to its political relevance. Negar Azimi explores present day experiments in selling America via the state department and otherwise. In a series commissioned for Bidoun, Shirana Shahbazi presents photographs that muddle fantasy, power and envy. Approaches to envy range from the mystical (the evil eye) to the humorous (fast food in Tehran). Our architecture section takes on ambitious modernist experiments and their broken legacy from Algiers to Cairo. We hope you like what we done.
—Lisa Farjam
PS We especially hope you enjoy this issue’s coloring book (crayons not included).
Bidoun
SANTRAL ISTANBUL
Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement of Tehran’s Honart Museum of international contemporary art (see previews), and the success of the 9th Istanbul Biennial, comes Turkey’s vast new art center, Santral Istanbul. Working at breakneck speed, a team of asbestos cleaners and heavy duty builders are currently turning the 120,000 square meter site of a disused and dilapidated power station on the Bosphorus into three museums, two libraries, and a new cont
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FARHAD MOSHIRI: BIOGRAPHY — PDF | |
Born in Shiraz, Iran in 1963 Lives and works in Tehran, Iran | |
EDUCATION | |
1984 | Graduate of California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
2011 | Shukran, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE |
2010 | Nothing Serious, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria |
2009 | Fluffy Friends, Frieze, The Third Line Booth, London, UK |
Silly You, Silly Me, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France | |
2008 | Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami |
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels | |
2007 | Candy Store, The Third Line, Dubai, U.A.E. |
Sweet Dreams, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, USA | |
2006 | Threshold of Hap, Extraspazio, Rome |
Albareh Gallery, Bahrain | |
Farhad Moshiri, The Third Line, Dubai, U.A.E. | |
Operation Supermarket, a part of “Images of the Middle East”, Kolding Design | |
School, collaboration with Shirin Aliabadi, Denmark | |
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