TEHRAN (Honaronline) – Art fair of ASIA NOW will be held in October 2021 in Paris with the presence of an Iranian platform.
The seventh season of ASIA NOW will be held from October 21 to 24, 2021 in Paris. The event is the first Paris art exhibition to showcase the diversity of the Asian contemporary art scene. ASIA NOW, as an ideal platform for dialogue and interaction dedicated to contemporary artistic creativity, can show more depth of the selected art scene by presenting special projects.
In the seventh period of this event, there is a special platform called Tehran NOW, which is dedicated to introducing the artworks of Iranian artists.
Eight Iranian galleries will display the works done by their artists in this event. The +2 Gallery presents the group play “Fragmented Orientalism” under the direction of Fereydoon Aav and displays the works of more than thirty Iranian artists. Aran Gallery with the works of Kamran Diba, Aab-Anbar Gallery with the works of Arash Hanaei and Sonia Balassanian. Azad Designers Gallery with the works of Reza Derakhshani and Kourosh Shishegaran. Bavan Gallery with the works of Elham Etemadi. Etemad Gallery with the works of Habib Farajabadi, Maryam ‘’MIMI’’Amini, Morteza Ahmadvand, and Peyman Shafieezadeh . Gallery Mohsen with the works of Sara Abassian, Sasan Abri, Majid Biglari, Elika Hedayat, Amir-Nasr Kamgooyan, Ali Phi, and Arya Tabandehpour. Saradipour Gallery with the works of Moslem Khezri, Ali Zakeri, and Abbas Nasle Shamloo are presenting in this event.
In addition to the Iranian galleries participating in the event, a number of international galleries also present works by Iranian artists. Natalie Obadia Gallery displays the works of Hoda Kashiha and Shahpour Pouyan, HdM the works of Mohammad Benisi, Félix Frachon Gallery the works of Tamineh Monsavi, A41Gallery the works of Amir Hossein Akhavan, La La Lande Gallery the works of Alireza Shojaeean, and Sepand Danesh, LJ Gallery Nastaran Shahbazi, Praz Delavallade Gallery the works of Golnaz Payani and Perrotin Gallery the works of Farhad Moshiri.
A project has been prepared by Odile Burluraux, curator of the Paris Museum of Modern Art, which features a video of eleven Iranian women artists who have studied Forough Farrokhzad. Atosa Bandeh Ghiasabadi, Samira Eskandarfar, Parisa Ghaderi, Elika Hedayat, Anahita Hekmat, Shiva Khosravi, Sanaz Sohrabi, Melika Shafahi, Rojin Shafiei,and Tahmineh Manzavi are the artists participating in this section. Another part of this event is the display of works by Farideh Lashaei and five decades of her professional activity will be introduced. The Behnoud Foundation also displays a collection of works by Zartosht Rahim, Farshid Shafiey, Mahmoud Obaidi, and Farshido Larimian.