• TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) - Italy’s Venice Biennale is the venue for a new, selected artwork by 52-year-old Iranian contemporary artist Samira Alikhanzadeh. Alikhanzadeh deals with memory with an eye on the future. Born and raised in Tehran, she holds a painting diploma from the University of Art but departed from painting after her first exhibition and turned to new media art, which she felt was representative of her own time. Using family photographs as raw material; her praxis is one of image manipulation to explore ideas of identity and memory. Alikhanzadeh cuts out faces and portraits from their original photographic backgrounds and places them on a mesh, guiding viewers from observation of a photograph to construction of a visual narrative. Alikhanzadeh is taking part in the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), dubbed Of Being and Singing, in Venice, Italy. The program runs ‪from May 11th to November 24th.‬ The pre-opening session will be ‪from May 8‬ to 10.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) - Italy’s Venice Biennale has opened its doors to a new, selected artwork by 57-year-old Iranian contemporary artist Reza Lavassani. Tehran-born and based, Lavassani, practices on various media. He began working on the installation Life in 2012 and worked on the piece for more than three years. Through a deliberate choice of papier-mâché, the artist underlines the literal and symbolic significance of recycling. The piece is a lyric narrative of life’s splendor and glory and an emblematic visualization of the passage of time. The awe-inspiring presentation, executed in Lavansani’s signature aesthetic language, portrays the artist’s belief in recreation and the eternal cycle of life. Life is a focus on theatricality of sculpture and installation. Lavassani is taking part in the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), dubbed Of Being and Singing, in Venice, Italy. The program runs ‪from May 11th to November 24th.‬ The pre-opening session will be ‪from May 8‬ to 10.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) - A new, selected artwork by Iranian contemporary artist Ali Meer Azimi is in view at this year’s Venice Biennale in Italy. Ali Meer Azimi (1984) lives and works in Esfahan. Azimi draws inspiration from cinema, philosophy and visual arts and creates deeply narrative pieces, shifting and experimenting with different disciplines in the process. Working on the idea of shot, reverse shot and reversal of depth and connecting these concepts with language disorders and dreams, his interactive installation is based on a comparative analysis of phonemic language acquisition between children and pre-puberty finches. Meer Azimi is taking part in the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), dubbed Of Being and Singing, in Venice, Italy. The program runs ‪from May 11th to November 24th.‬ The pre-opening session will be ‪from May 8‬ to 10.

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