Expression Abstraction
(selected works by world's leading artists)
Mar. 6 - Aug. 11, 1999

Presenting expressionism and abstraction in modern painting and exhibiting figurative as well as abstract works by Edvard Munch, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollok, Joan Miro, Francis Bacon, Antonio Tapies and other popular modern painters.

Half a century of painting to from an Iranian school of painting, presenting works by Jalil Ziapour, Ahmad Esfandiari, Abolghasem Saeedi, Mansour Ghandriz, Hossein Zendehroodi, Faramarz Pilaram, Mohammad Ehsaee, Nosratollah Moslemian, Jafar Roohbakhsh, Habibollah Sadeghi, Parviz Kalantari, Mostafa Goodarzi, and other Iranian contemporary artists.

A collection of graphic works including poster, environmental graphic, packaging, layout, brochure, catalog, book cover, press advertisement and letter design. Each section will receive special awards. On the sideline of the exhibition, there will be lectures and round tables to present critiques and also look into Iranian contemporary graphic design.

Exhibition revolutionary values and historic moments of the Islamic revolution mirrored in the contemporary Iranian painting. Celebrating the twenty - first anniversary of revolution on the artists' canvas. On the margin, there will be gathering to examine the artistic characteristics and thematic contents of the revolutionary Iranian painting.

A selection of realistic and semi-abstract painting of landscape and still life, introduction Ali Mohammed Heydarian, Javad Hamidi, Ahmad Esfandiari, Habib Mohammadi, Sohrab Sepehri, Davood Emdadian, Hossein Sadri, Sirak Melkonian and other leading Iranian artists.

An important event in line with achieving an international standing for Iranian cartoon designers. Amateur and professional artists will present their selected works in two categories for an international jury to judge: thematic and free.

An opportunity to present Iranian traditional painting: a new chance to discover young talented artists, introducing fresh ideas and experiences. The exhibition presents selected works in three categories: miniature, illumination and carpet design.

The mysteries and fantasies of the children's world, reflected in the works of illustrators displaying a unique and incomparable world of imagination and innovation. Together with the exhibition of "Green land of dream", a seminar on both illustration and literature appeared in the children books, will be held.

A movement in contrast with Abstractionism of 1950's in the United states. Pop artists, generally, reflected a consumer society in the industrial world. Great works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist and other important pop artists will be showcased in this exhibition.

Drawing is the basic for all visual arts, while being a pure art itself. This exhibition can provide the ground for a through competition among artists from all artistic domains.

Presenting new approaches towards monument and sculpture design. To achieve this goal, this triennial exhibition tries to promote competition among sculptors and to provide the ground needed for quality critique and assessment. The exhibition will have three sections including statues, frescos and monuments.

A rare display of optical kinetics by Victor Vasarely is provided by Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Mr. Tibor Csepei, a private Vasarely collector from the artist's home country - Hungary. The original Vasarelys of the museum will be exhibited for the first time.

Symbolic expression has continuously appeared in some of the works of modernist Iranian artists .
The artworks selected for this exhibition reveal such expression with a modern approach.
Master artists will discuss symbolism in seminars held in the course of the exhibition's duration.

Herman Glockner, contemporary German artist, spent the last years of his life under pressure from the then East German government and never conformed to the ruling school of art. He earned international acclaim following political developments and the reunification of the two German states in 1989, two years after his demise.

Art of 20
A century of Iranain Contemporary Painting
May 29 - Jul 12, 2000

This exhibition presents the contemporary Iranian painting of the 20th century. The selected works demonstrate the variety in the art of the past ten decades in Iran. Art 20 is the venue to perceive how contemporary Iranian painting has evolved and to become familiar with the prominent figures who have left their mark on this evolution.

Cubism, in pursuance of Cezanne's theory about geometric forms in nature, instituted the intellectual aspect of modern art.
The cubist painters' achievements in the construction of from and space became the basis of various tendencies in geometric abstract art, which eventually evolved into minimalism.
This trend is different from the expressionism and abstract expressionism movements, which stressed such values as self- expression, spontaneity and emotionalism.
Some works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Frantisek Kupka, Ben Nicholson, Victor Vasarely, Frank Stella, Sol Lewitt and several other estabilshed artists reveal this intellecual trend in the art of twentieth century.

During the past century, a number of Iranian artists were drawn to exposing social issues and realism in their paintings.
A look at the works of realist painters, who have at times tended towards naturalism, is the impetus to this exhibition .
On the sidelines of this exhibition, discussion sessions will be held on realism and the study of naturalistic tendencies in contemporary Iranian painting.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art began holding contemporary painting biennials in 1990.
The fifth of this series of events seeks:

• identification of unknown young artists,

• acknowledgement of active and talented artists,

• regard for dynamism and novelty,

• appreciation of drawing traditions in view of the time factor,

• familiarising the society with drawing and its perpetual values.

The First International Visual Arts Exhibition of Muslim Artists. This Exhibition is a new measure initiated by the Museum with the collaboration of the Art Academy. The organizers seek to pave the ground for contact and exchange among the artists of the world of Islam.
The objectives can be enumerated as exposure of the contemporary art of the world of Islam, providing the opportunity for display of novel ideas and achievements and strengthening the identity of Islamic art by acknowledging the efforts of Muslim artists.
There will be a seminar, on the side lines of the exhibition, on visual arts.
For more information see http://www.pwislam.com/

The contemporary painting of Iran owes a considerable part of its developments to the efforts, experiences and artworks of artists who are not with us any longer. This exhibition is in their honour.
These artists and their works will be discussed in sessions held in the course of the exhibition.

Impressionism is the most significant artistic phenomena to rise from Europe in the 19th century and is also the first modern painting movement. Impressionists utilized color to give a realistic portrayal of immediate visual impression. Thus, they omitted all symbolic and literary aspects from the subject and avoided a sentimental attitude. Post- impressionism encompasses various methods. It has gone beyond impressionism by emphasizing purity of from, solidity of structure and expression of the visual elements and provided the opportunity for developments in the painting of the twentieth century. Visitors will view works by such renowned artists as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gaugin, Henry de Toulouse - Lautrec, Eduard Vulliard and many more.

The objective behind holding this exhibition is to present research on contemporary Iranian graphics. In addition to exposing the novel ideas of Iranian graphic designers, the artworks of the best of such artists in other countries will also be displayed to familiarize Iranian graphists with the universal developments in their field.

Drawing is the first step in creation of an artwork and the reflection of the individual artists subjective thoughts about the world surrounding him.
Today, the art of drawing has reached new dimensions and become an independent global visual language .
This exhibition will be the showcase of present-day drawing in Iran and provides the arena for an artistic competition.

Lithographs by contemporary Spanish artists are exhibited simultaneous with Contemporary Drawing in Iran, 2001. This events is a collaboration between Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and Spain's Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

An exhibition of works by Iranian contemporary artists in honor of Imam Ali(PBUH).

Concurrent display of works by celebrated Norwegian and Polish graphic designers and the debut of Farshid Mesghali
This exhibition displays the artistic experiences of Iranian and the works of several internationally prominent graphic designers. The goals behind the exhibition are to give exposure to the latest ideas of Iranian graphic designers and at the same time provide the opportunity for an exchange of ideas with their international counterparts.

An exposition of paintings by Armenian contemporary artists on the occasion of 2001-Year of Dialogue among Civilizations and the 1700th year of Christianity in that Republic with the collaboration of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenian in Tehran. Works by Iranian Armenian painters comprises part of this exhibition.

This event showcases works created with novel elements, media and tools of conceptual expression. The exhibition and the side line seminar aim to encourage artists toward new artistic novelties by utilization of the latest modes of innovation and expression in art.

The celebrated German artist, Heinz Mack, is multi-dimensional. His installation works are engaging as his drawings and illustrations. He has employed oriental culture extensively in his creations. The most famous of his illustrations is that emanating from Goethe's East-West book of poems.
Arabesque elements and bright oriental colors coupled with his broad knowledge of Western visual arts, has made Heinz Mack an artist with an independent style of his own.

Tendency toward national ideals and identity along with practice of traditional Iranian motifs are prominent features in works of Iranian artists during the 1940's and 50's.
The creations of these three are an indication of a praiseworthy effort in establishing a "national painting" emanating from Iranian identity by way of modern mode of artistic expression.
Sessions of critical discussion of the art of the period are hold on the side lines of the exposition.

Contemporary Iranian photography will be represented by 225 photos by 40 photographers residing within and outside of Iran. The exhibits are divided into three sections with different themes: innovative photography, social documentary and photo-journalism. The show's first venue was in Paris and was a collaborative work among AFFA, Paris Municipality, the French Ministry of Education, Cultural Section of the French Embassy in Tehran, Dupont Photography Laboratory and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

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