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The 12th Annual of Persbook’s Contemporary Art Body-Weaving

The 12th Annual of Persbook’s Contemporary Art Body-Weaving A Curatorial Project by Neda Darzi & Reza Monjezi       The Annual of Persbook’s Contemporary Art issues their public statement about their 12th event for the purpose of contemporary artists’ synergy, among the awareness of Iran society’s existing conditions, and also for the long-term aims commencing from the previous events concerning Iran’s ecology and society. Artists: Aida Alibakhsh, Ebrahim Advay, Najmeh Amini, Mojdeh Atrak,  Mansooreh Bagharaee, Katayoun Bahrami, Farzin Hedayatzadeh,  Mahmoud Maktabi, Sara Sasani, Aniseh Salehnia, Nasrin Shahbeigy, Hamideh Sobhani, ... ...
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The 11th Event of Persbook’s Annual Contemporary Art: Zero Waste

Bavan Gallery 1st-22nd of October 2021 One of modern world problems is environmental pollution. It seems that one of crucial pollution examples and of course one of the most worrying cases is plastic waste that is unrecyclable for centuries. Nevertheless, plastic production has been continuing. Of all unrecyclable wastes annually being produced, only %9 are recycled. In other words, %91 of wastes are piled up on Earth. Imagine what happens if you annually keep over %90 of your waste at your house. In Iran, more than 177000 tons of plastic ... ...
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The 11th Event of Persbook’s Annual Contemporary Art

The 11th Event of Persbook’s Annual Contemporary Art: Title: Zero Waste Bavan Gallery 1st-22nd of October 2021 One of modern world problems is environmental pollution. It seems that one of crucial pollution examples and of course one of the most worrying cases is plastic waste that is unrecyclable for centuries. Nevertheless, plastic production has been continuing. Of all unrecyclable wastes annually being produced, only %9 are recycled. In other words, %91 of wastes are piled up on Earth. Imagine what happens if you annually keep over %90 of your waste ... ...

Tenth Annual Event of Persbook’s Contemporary Art

Title: Work-hand October 18 and 20, 2020 Kashan, Iran October 18 and 20, 2020 Kashan, Iran   About Persbook: Persbook is an annual event for presenting works of Iranian artists and residents in Iran. This event was organized by the artist-curator Neda Darzi in 2009. The main aims and purposes of Persbook are as follows: An unbiased free climate for presentation and introduction of Iranian youth works and an independent dynamic climate for interaction and synergy. Choice of advisors, artists, and jury were not limited to Iran borders and Invitation ... ...

The 9th Annual of Contemporary Art | Persbook 2019

The Ninth Annual Contemporary Art of Persbook(Mazandaran, Iran) Hyrcanian Forests  Darzikola Ecology:  October 29-November 7,2019  Concentrating on Hyrcanian forest and ecology, Persbook –like prior events- pursues long-term objectives concerning protection of environment and international-Iranian ancient heritage and calls for modernist and innovative artists for participation in a space-oriented project. The present event occurs in Darzikola Ecology with cooperation of Visual Arts Association of Mazandaran and curatorship of Neda Darzi at Hyrcanian Forest in Darzikola.  Perspective:  Ancient manuscripts and modern literature of Iran significantly refer to ecology variety of Iran. Although they ... ...

8th Annual of Contemporary Art | Persbook 2018

Persbook’s eighth annual of Iranian contemporary art is held by Yazd Visual Arts Association and curatorship of Neda Darzi and Negar Farajiani. Approach of Persbook’s Eighth Annual of Iranian Contemporary Art: This year concentrates on interaction and participation of different classes of society as a suitable substitution of competitive trends, along with curatorship. Therefore, Yazd was selected for the second space-oriented project of world (Sharbafi workshop) with respect to protection of ancient buildings, ecological art, the textile art, and contemporary trends. Title of The Eighth Annual : Retexture Retexture is ... ...

The 7th Annual of Contemporary Art | Persbook | 2017

Persbook is pleased to announce an open call to artists for the Seventh Annual of Contemporary Art Organized and directed by Neda Darzi and Pamela Karimi Review Committee: Pouya Aryanpour, Mohammad Reza Ghaneei, Pamela Karimi, Shadmerhr Rastin, Behrang Samadzadegan Art Consultant: Omid Ghajarian Co-curator: Mojdeh Atrak Publicity: Maryam Amoosa Designer: Nastaran Safaei Graphic Designer: Saleh Tasbihi Seventh Annual Theme: Eco-Art Persbook open call for artist’s Deadline: September 11, 2017 The theme of the seventh annual of Persbook art has revolved around the idea of art making in the vicinity of ... ...

The 6th Annual of Contemporary Art | 2015-16

Sixth annual of contemporary art’ exhibition was held in Niyavaran Cultural Center 15th to 23rd of April-2016 Founder and Chief Designer:  Neda Darzi  Executive Director:  Pamela Karimi Review Committee: Neda Darzi, Behnam Kamrani, Pamela Karimi, Touraj Khamenehzadeh Jurors: Alysse Stepanian, Pamela  Karimi, Behrang Samdzadegan  Graphic: Rasool Kamali Sixth Annual Theme: Art and Anthropocene  In her widely-read book The Silent Spring (1962), the American biologist Rachel Carson, brought attention to the devastating consequences of human intervention in nature. Although unprecedented at her own time, Carson’s book initiated a revolutionary path, which ... ...

The 5th Annual of Contemporary Art | Persbook | Summer.2014

The Fifth Annual of Contemporary Art – Persbook exhibition was held in Elahe Gallery from July 11th to September 29th, 2014. The exhibit includes the artworks from all four terms of Persbook competitions with their own themes as well as the fifth term’s selected works. In addition an online exhibition will be held at the same time as the actual exhibition on the Persbook’s website. During the exhibition, discussion panels will be held and panels of prominent artists and art critics would discuss the works presented in the exhibition. The ... ...

The 4th Annual of Contemporary Art | Persbook | Nov.2013

Curators: Ali Ettehad, Nima Zaghian Unfortunately our exhibition was canceled after the opening night because of the censorship the managers of The Iranian Artist’s Forum have done on some works. But it was a great opening night and only in that night we had about 2000 visitors. The exhibition was held in all seven galleries of The Iranian Artist’s Forum in Tehran. Iranian Artist’s forum Nov. 11, 2013 Sponsors: Sold Out  and Studio Kargah Special thanks to: Hanieh Hedayatpour, Aria Kasaei, Nikoo Tarkhani, Jamshid Haghighatshenas, Farid Aminoleslam, Farhad Hosseini, Sally ... ...