Oct 2015

Oct 2015

Parviz Tanavoli

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Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari

‫بنى‌آدم‌اعضای‌یک‌پیکرند‬ ‫که‌در‌آفرینش‌ز‌یک‌گوهرند‬ ‫چو‌عضوى‌به‌درد‌آورد‌روزگار‬ َ ‫دگر‌عضوها‌را‌نما َند‌قرار‬ ‫تو‌کز‌محنت‌دیگران‌بی‌غمی‬ ‫نشاید‌که‌نامت‌نهند‌آدمی‬ This translation is by H. Vahid Dastjerdi: Adam's sons are body limbs, to say; For they're created of the same clay.

Should one organ be troubled by pain, Others would suffer severe strain.

Thou, careless of people's suffering, Deserve not the name, "human being"

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Parviz Tanavoli (born 23 March 1937 in Tehran) is an Iranian sculptor, painter, scholar and art collector. He has lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1989.

Tanavoli's work has been auctioned around the world leading to overall sales of over $6.7 million, making him the most expensive living Iranian artist.

Contemporary Art. Prior to that he had held solo exhibitions in Austria, Academic career Italy, Germany, United States and Upon graduating from the Brera Britain. Tanavoli has been in group Academy of Milan in 1959, exhibitions internationally. His work Tanavoli taught sculpture for three has been displayed at the British years at the Minneapolis Museum, the Grey Art Gallery, New College of Art and Design. He then York University, the Isfahan City returned to Iran and assumed the Center, Nelson Rockefeller directorship of the sculpture Collection, New York, Olympic Park, department at the University of Seoul, South Korea, the Royal Tehran, a position he held for 18 Museum of Jordan, the Museum of years until 1979, when he retired Modern Art, Vienna, Museum of from his teaching duties.

Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Hamline Exhibitions University, St. Paul and Shiraz Tanavoli-1974.jpg University, Iran.

Since 1989 Tanavoli has lived and worked in Vancouver. His latest solo exhibition was a retrospective held in 2003 at the Tehran Museum of 1

Influences He belongs to Saqqakhana group of artists who, according to the scholar Karim Emami, share a common popular aesthetic.[1] He has been influenced heavily by his country's history and culture and traditions, (he was once cultural advisor to the Queen of Iran) and has always been fascinated with locksmithing.

(2002), Horse and Camel Trappings from Tribal Iran, Tehran (1998) Sofreh of Kamo, Tehran (1996), Kings, Heroes and Lovers, London (1994), Shahsavan: Iranian Rugs and Textiles, New York, Switzerland (1985), Locks from Iran, Washington DC (1977).

A video clip about Locks from Iran

Politics and art In 2005, he created a small piece of sculpture called Heech in a Cage to protest the conditions of the American-held prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp and in 2006 began work on his piece to honour the victims of the Israeli-Lebanon war.

Bibliography Tanavoli has written dozens of publications, dating back over three decades. Among these are:

The Afshars, London (in press), Gabbeh: Art Underfoot, Tehran (2004), Tribal and Rustic Weaves from Varamin, Tehran (2003), Persian Flat-Weaves, London.

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Banksy of the winning bidder. Banksy's first is an English-based graffiti artist, film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, political activist and film director billed as "the world's first street art whose real identity is unknown. His disaster movie", made its debut at satirical street art and subversive the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. epigrams combine dark humour The film was released in the UK on with graffiti executed in a 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he distinctive stenciling technique. His was nominated for the Academy works of political and social Award for Best Documentary for commentary have been featured onthe film. In 2014, he was awarded streets, walls, and bridges of cities Person of the Year at the 2014 throughout the world. Banksy's Webby Awards. work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy says that he was inspired by "3D", a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack, an English musical group.

Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces.

Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands

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Early career (1992–2001) office on Stokes Croft in Bristol.

Banksy started as a freehand It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one Molotov cocktail at three riot of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), police. with Kato and Tes. He was inspired Stencil on the waterline of The by local artists and his work was Thekla, an entertainment boat in part of the larger Bristol central Bristol – (wider view). The underground scene with Nick section of the hull with this picture Walker, Inkie and 3D. During this has now been removed and is on time he met Bristol photographer display at the M Shed museum. The Steve Lazarides, who began selling image of Death is based on a Banksy's work, later becoming his nineteenth-century etching agent.From the start Banksy used illustrating the pestilence of The stencils as elements of his Great Stink. freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he Banksy's stencils feature striking had turned to the art of stencilling and humorous images occasionally after realising how much less time combined with slogans. The it took to complete a work. He message is usually anti-war, anticlaims he changed to stencilling capitalist or anti-establishment. while he was hiding from the Subjects often include rats, apes, police under a rubbish lorry, policemen, soldiers, children, and when he noticed the stencilled the elderly. serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became In July 2011 one of Banksy's early more widely noticed for his art works, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, which around Bristol and London.He had been a prominent landmark on played football with the Easton the exterior wall of a former social Cowboys and Cowgirls in the 1990s club in Eastville for over ten years, and toured with the club to Mexico was unwittingly painted over after in 2001. Banksy's first known large the premises became a Muslim wall mural was "The Mild Mild cultural centre West" painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors' 7

£10 notes to Barely Legal (2004– hitchhiking to anywhere, Archway, 2006) London In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof British £10 notes In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to substituting the picture of the the Palestinian territories, created Queen's head with Diana, Princess nine images on the Israeli West of Wales's head and changing the Bank wall. text "Bank of England" to "Banksy Banksy held an exhibition called of England." Someone threw a Barely Legal, billed as a "three-day large wad of these into a crowd at vandalised warehouse Notting Hill Carnival that year, extravaganza" in Los Angeles, on which some recipients then tried the weekend of 16 September to spend in local shops. These 2006. The exhibition featured a live notes were also given with "elephant in a room," painted in a invitations to a Santa's Ghetto pink and gold floral wallpaper exhibition by Pictures on Walls. The pattern, which, according to leaflets individual notes have since been handed out at the exhibition, was selling on eBay for about £200 intended to draw attention to the each. A wad of the notes were also issue of world poverty. Although thrown over a fence and into the the Animal Services Department crowd near the NME signing tent at had issued a permit for the The Reading Festival. A limited run elephant, after complaints from of 50 signed posters containing ten animal rights activists, the elephant uncut notes were also produced appeared unpainted on the final and sold by Pictures on Walls for day. Its owners rejected claims of £100 each to commemorate the mistreatment and said that the death of Princess Diana. One of elephant had done "many, many these movies. She's used to sold in October 2007 at Bonhams makeup."Banksy also made artwork auction house in London for displaying Queen Victoria as a £24,000. lesbian and satirical pieces that A stencil of Charles Manson in a incorporated art made by Andy prison suit, Warhol and Leonardo da Vinci 8

Dismaland Dismaland (2015), a "bemusement park" in Weston-Super-Mare Banksy opened Dismaland, a large scale group show lampooning Disneyland on 21 August 2015. The "theme park" is located in Westonsuper-Mare, United Kingdom.According to the Dismaland website Damien Hirst will be one of the artists represented in this show. The artist Jenny Holzer is also part of the project.

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Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn din Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi or thirty years abroad through simply Saadi, Anatolia (where he visited the Port was one of the major Persian poets of Adana and near Konya met ghazi and literary men of the medieval landlords), Syria (where he period. He is not only famous in mentions the famine in Damascus), Persian-speaking countries, but has Egypt (where he describes its been quoted in western sources as music, bazaars, clerics and elites), well. He is recognized for the and Iraq (where he visits the port of quality of his writings and for the Basra and the Tigris river). In his depth of his social and moral writings he mentions the qadis, thoughts. Saadi is widely muftis of Al-Azhar, the grand recognized as one of the greatest bazaar, music and art. At Halab, poets of the classical literary Saadi joins a group of Sufis who tradition. had fought arduous battles against Biography the Crusaders. Saadi was captured Born in Shiraz, Iran, c. 1210, his

by Crusaders at Acre where he father died when he was a child. spent seven years as a slave digging He narrates memories of going trenches outside its fortress. He out with his father as a child was later released after the during festivities.

Mamluks paid ransom for Muslim In his youth, Saadi experienced prisoners being held in Crusader poverty and hardship and left his dungeons. native town for Baghdad to pursue Saadi visited Jerusalem and then a better education. As a young man set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca he enrolled at the Nizamiyya and Medina. It is believed that he University, where he studied in may have also visited Oman and Islamic sciences, law, governance, other lands in the south of the history, Arabic literature, and Arabian Peninsula.

Islamic theology.

The unsettled conditions following the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm and Iran led him to wander for 11

Because of the Mongol invasions Saadi mentions honey-gatherers in he was forced to live in desolate Azarbaijan, fearful of Mongol areas and met caravans fearing for plunder. He finally returns to Persia their lives on once-lively silk trade where he meets his childhood routes. Saadi lived in isolated companions in Isfahan and other refugee camps where he met cities. At Khorasan Saadi befriends bandits, Imams, men who formerly a Turkic Emir named Tughral. Saadi owned great wealth or joins him and his men on their commanded armies, intellectuals, journey to Sindh where he meets and ordinary people.

Pir Puttur, a follower of the Persian While Mongol and European Sufi grand master Shaikh Usman sources (such as Marco Polo) Marvandvi (1117–1274).He also gravitated to the potentates and refers in his writings about his courtly life of Ilkhanate rule, Saadi travels with a Turkic Amir named mingled with the ordinary survivors Tughral in Sindh (Pakistan across of the war-torn region. He sat in the Indus and Thar), India remote tea houses late into the (especially Somnath, where he night and exchanged views with encounters Brahmans), and Central merchants, farmers, preachers, Asia (where he meets the survivors wayfarers, thieves, and Sufi of the Mongol invasion in mendicants. For twenty years or Khwarezm). Tughral hires Hindu more, he continued the same sentinels. Tughral later enters schedule of preaching, advising, service of the wealthy Delhi and learning, honing his sermons to Sultanate, and Saadi is invited to reflect the wisdom and foibles of Delhi and later visits the Vizier of his people. Saadi's works reflect Gujarat. During his stay in Gujarat, upon the lives of ordinary Iranians Saadi learns more about the Hindus suffering displacement, agony and and visits the large temple of conflict during the turbulent times Somnath, from which he flees due of the Mongol invasion. to an unpleasant encounter with Saadi Shirazi is welcomed by a the Brahmans. youth from Kashgar during a forum 12 in Bukhara.

Saadi came back to Shiraz before 1257 CE / 655 AH (the year he finished composition of his Bustan).

Saadi has mourned in his poetry the fall of Abbasid Caliphate and Works Baghdad's destruction by Mongol Main articles: Bustan and Gulistan invaders led by Hulagu in February The first page of Bustan, from a 1258.

Mughal manuscript.

When he reappeared in his native His best known works are Bustan Shiraz, he might have been in his (The Orchard) completed in 1257 late forties. Shiraz, under Atabak and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) in Abubakr Sa'd ibn Zangy (1231–60), 1258.[6] Bostan is entirely in verse the Salghurid ruler of Fars, was (epic metre). It consists of stories enjoying an era of relative aptly illustrating the standard tranquility. Saadi was not only virtues recommended to Muslims welcomed to the city but was (justice, liberality, modesty, shown great respect by the ruler contentment) and reflections on and held to be among the greats the behavior of dervishes and their of the province. In response, ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly Saadi took his nom de plume from in prose and contains stories and the name of the local prince, Sa'd personal anecdotes. The text is ibn Zangi. Some of Saadi's most interspersed with a variety of short famous panegyrics were poems which contain aphorisms, composed as a gesture of advice, and humorous reflections, gratitude in praise of the ruling demonstrating Saadi's profound house and placed at the beginning awareness of the absurdity of of his Bustan. The remainder of human existence. The fate of those Saadi's life seems to have been who depend on the changeable spent in Shiraz. moods of kings is contrasted with the freedom of the dervishes.

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Regarding the importance of with the Mongols: professions Saadi writes: In Isfahan I had a friend who was O darlings of your fathers, warlike, spirited, and learn the trade because property shrewd....after long I met him: "O and riches of the world are not to tiger-seizer!" I exclaimed, "what has be relied upon; also silver and gold made thee decrepit like an old are an occasion of danger because fox?" either a thief may steal them at He laughed and said: "Since the once or the owner spend them days of war against the Mongols, I gradually; but a profession is a have expelled the thoughts of living fountain and permanent fighting from my head. Then did I wealth; and although a see the earth arrayed with spears professional man may lose riches, like a forest of reeds. I raised like it does not matter because a smoke the dust of conflict; but profession is when Fortune does not favour, of itself wealth and wherever you go what avail is fury? I am one who, in you will enjoy respect and sit on combat, could take with a spear a high places, whereas those who ring from the palm of the hand; have no trade will glean crumbs but, as my star did not befriend me, and see hardships. they encircled me as with a ring. I Saadi is also remembered as a seized the opportunity of flight, for panegyrist and lyricist, the author only a fool strives with Fate. How of a number of odes portraying could my helmet and cuirass aid me human experience, and also of when my bright star favoured me particular odes such as the lament not? When the key of victory is not on the fall of Baghdad after the in the hand, no one can break open Mongol invasion in 1258. His lyrics the door of conquest with his arms. are found in Ghazaliyat (Lyrics) and The enemy were a pack of his odes in Qasa'id (Odes). He is leopards, and as strong as also known for a number of works elephants. The heads of the heroes in Arabic. were encased in iron, as were also In the Bustan, Saadi writes of the hoofs of the horses.

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We urged on our Arab steeds like a cloud, and when the two armies encountered each other thou wouldst have said they had struck the sky down to the earth. From the raining of arrows, that descended like hail, the storm of death arose in every corner. Not one of our troops came out of the battle but his cuirass was soaked with blood. Not that our swords were blunt—it was the vengeance of stars of ill fortune. Overpowered, we surrendered, like a fish which, though protected by scales, is between human beings: caught by the hook in the bait. ‫بنى‌آدم‌اعضای‌یک‌پیکرند‬ Since Fortune averted her face, ‫که‌در‌آفرینش‌ز‌یک‌گوهرند‬ useless was our shield against the ‫چو‌عضوى‌به‌درد‌آورد‌روزگار‬ َ arrows of Fate. ‫دگر‌عضوها‌را‌نما َند‌قرار‬ Bani Adam ‫تو‌کز‌محنت‌دیگران‌بی‌غمی‬ A copy of Saadi Shirazi's works by ‫نشاید‌که‌نامت‌نهند‌آدمی‬ the Bosniak scholar Safvet beg This translation is by H. Vahid Bašagić (1870–1934) Dastjerdi: Saadi is well known for his Adam's sons are body limbs, to say; aphorisms, the most famous of For they're created of the same which, Bani Adam, is part of the clay.

Gulistan. In a delicate way it calls Should one organ be troubled by for breaking down all barriers pain, Others would suffer severe strain.

Thou, careless of people's suffering, Deserve not the name, "human being" 15

Shiraz .Iran

Shiraz is the sixth most populous consist of inlaid mosaic work of city of Iran and the capital of Fars triangular design; silver-ware; pile Province carpet-weaving and weaving of In 2009, the population of the city kilim, called gilim and jajim in the was 1,455,073. Shiraz is located in villages and among the tribes. In the southwest of Iran on the Shiraz industries such as cement Roodkhaneye Khoshk (Dry River) production, sugar, fertilizers, textile seasonal river. It has a moderate products, wood products, climate and has been a regional metalwork and rugs dominate. trade center for over a thousand ShirÄ z also has a major oil refinery years. It is regarded as one of the and is also a major center for Iran's oldest cities of ancient Persia. electronic industries: 53% of Iran's The earliest reference to the city, as electronic investment has been TiraziĹĄ, is on Elamite clay tablets centered in Shiraz. Shiraz is home dated to 2000 BC.In the 13th to Iran's first solar power plant. century, Shiraz became a leading Recently the city's first wind center of the arts and letters, due turbine has been installed above to the encouragement of its ruler Babakoohi mountain near the city. and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. It was the capital of Persia during the Zand dynasty from 1750 until 1781, as well as briefly during the Saffarid period. Two famous poets of Iran, Hafez and Saadi, are from Shiraz.

Shiraz is known as the city of poets, literature, wine and flowers. It is also considered by many Iranians to be the city of gardens, due to the many gardens and fruit trees that can be seen in the city. Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities. The crafts of Shiraz 18

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