The Other; Group Show at Mohsen Art Gallery

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The other

Group Exhibition

The image through the mirror (digital image) - Nikoo Tarkhani

Samira Eskandarfar, Nima Esmailpour, Nikoo Tarkhani, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Farid Jafari Samarghandi, Melodi Hoseynzadeh, Ahmad Zolfagharian, Behrouz Rae,Behrang Samadzadegan, Hamed Sahihi, Samira Alikhandzadeh, Amirali Ghasemi, Babak Kazemi, Sohrab M. Kashani, Behnam Kamrani, Katayoun Karami, Barbad Golshiri

Music by Kaveh Kateb

A new Art Gallery opens in Tehran
Mohsen Art Gallery is hosting its 1st exhibition with “The Other”, the show is curated by Ali Ettehad Born in Sari, 1983 is one of the artists/writers who is joining the growing numbers of curators contributing to Tehran’s contemporary Art scene.Also Aydin Aghdashloo and Hamid Severi will talk as guest speakers for occasion of the exhibition at the opening.
Mohsen Art Gallery named after Mohsen rasoulov, the late Iranian curator, filmmaker and photographer lost his life in a tragical plane crash at the age of 25.

Ali Ettehad in the exhibition press release writes:

‘I found comprehension in you only so as to become the subject of my own comprehension.’

Ibn-e-Arabi, Fosoos-ul-Hekam

What creates ‘I’ is something exterior to the ‘I’, something beyond it, an ‘Other’, abstract or concrete. With the creation of the Other, the borders of ‘I’ begin to show. Now it is this ‘I’ who is able to give the Other a sacred, kind, inimical or friendly role.
As the creator of itself, ‘I’ makes Other a means of processing itself. It glorifies, adores, considers it the reason behind its decadence or sympathizes with it. In times, as encountered in mystic concepts of ‘profane I’ or ‘impeccable I’ of the mystic, the subject projects his dear self unto the other to penetrate through his dark self and join him. Such relation between ‘I’ and ‘Other’ is so complicated that one cannot look for its beginning.
Now if we place the Iranian contemporary artist in place of the subject, where will Other be located? What is the foundation upon which the domain of the artist’s ‘I’ is based? Which factors including cultural patterns, collective memory, social lived experience and many other make a part of what she calls ‘I’ today? Is it possible to search for these parts in his artwork? The initial answer to such question is that no matter whether a contemporary artist runs away from himself or whether starts a quest for penetrating into his invisible layers she has to confront the Other. The artist is carving a statue of the Other; even if she builds the opposite of it, the initial example is still effective.

Opening : Friday 8 January 2010 from 5 to 9 pm.
The exhibition will be on view till 20th of Jan, 2010.

Mohsen Art Gallery
Address: No. 42, East Mina Blvd, Farzan Street, Naji Street, Zafar, Tehran
Telephone: 22255354