{"id":8478,"date":"2012-03-28T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:35:01","slug":"here-and-there-the-iranian-art-scene-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8478","title":{"rendered":"Here and There  |  The Iranian Art Scene of Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>PARYA<\/strong><br \/>\n344 John St.<br \/>\nMarkham, ON<br \/>\nT: 416.979.3941<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery44.org\/genderandexposure\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gallery44.org\/genderandexposure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here and There\u00a0 |\u00a0 The Iranian Art Scene of Today<br \/>\n<strong>Artist Sadegh Tirafkan in conversation with curator Andrea Fitzpatrick<\/strong>,<br \/>\n<strong>preceded by a video screening curated by Amirali Ghasemi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gallery 44 is thrilled to welcome contemporary Tehran-based artist Sadegh Tirafkan to Toronto for a panel discussion with curator Andrea Fitzpatrick. <em>This event is presented in partnership with Parya Trillium Foundation, an Iranian-Canadian community centre.<\/em> It is a precursor to the upcoming\u00a0Contact Photography Festival\u00a0Feature Exhibition \u201cGender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery44.org\/genderandexposure\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gallery44.org\/genderandexposure<\/a>)\u201d at Gallery 44 in May.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ghasemi-Amirali_-Coffee-Shop-Ladies-No_-7-2004-5_opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8674\" title=\"Ghasemi, Amirali_ Coffee Shop Ladies, No_ 7, 2004-5_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ghasemi-Amirali_-Coffee-Shop-Ladies-No_-7-2004-5_opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>Amirali Ghasemi, Coffee Shop Ladies, No_ 7, 2004-5<\/p>\n<p>Thoughtfully assembled by curator Andrea Fitzpatrick and featuring works by Amirali Ghasemi, Abbas Kowsari, Zeinab Salarvand, Arman Stepanian, Samira Eskandarfar and Sadegh Tirafkan, this exhibition addresses the censorship and the exposure of gendered bodies in Iranian lens-based art. The artwork presented is by some of Iran\u2019s most celebrated lens-based artists, emerging to established, most of whom have never shown their work in Canada before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tirafkan-Sadegh_-from-the-Zoorkhaneh-series-2003-4-70-x-100-cm_opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8673\" title=\"Tirafkan, Sadegh_ from the Zoorkhaneh series, 2003-4, 70 x 100 cm_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tirafkan-Sadegh_-from-the-Zoorkhaneh-series-2003-4-70-x-100-cm_opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Sadegh Tirafkan, From the Zoorkhaneh series, 2003-4<\/p>\n<p>We are also launching a giving campaign to raise funds to pay for the travel of the artists and their artwork to Toronto.\u00a0Your donation of $50 or more towards the upcoming exhibition &#8220;Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography&#8221; will help Gallery 44 expose Toronto to thought-provoking art being created in Iran today. <strong>Donate<\/strong> online via Canada Helps: visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/g44exposures\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/g44exposures<\/a>\u00a0or send a cheque to Gallery 44. \u00a0A charitable receipt will be issued for your donation.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you can join us for both the event at Parya on March 29, and at Gallery 44<br \/>\non May 4 for the opening reception of &#8220;Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian<br \/>\nPhotography.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PARYA in Markham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist Sadegh Tirafkan<\/strong> in conversation with <strong>curator Andrea Fitzpatrick<\/strong>, preceded by a video screening<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8478\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8676,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}