Fereshteh daftari biography of michael
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Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU&#;s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the s and s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, &#;Modernisms&#; explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Influenced by local traditions, cultural exchange and the sights and sounds of modern life, artists in Iran, Turkey and India forged distinctive new modes of expression. From Iranian and Turkish artists who explored calligraphy and ornamentation through avant-garde abstraction, to Indian painters whose expressive canvases drew upon Hindu iconography, the works in Modernisms reflect the lively dialogue between East and West, past and present. These works testify to both the continuity of cul
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Redrawing ‘Islamic art’
New York — AMID the calamitous violence sparked bygd cartoon images of Muhammad, it’s only natural that the Museum of Modern Art would tread carefully when opening a major new exhibition dealing with the Islamic world. “I was acutely aware of a number of pitfalls,” says curator Fereshteh Daftari.
There are no caricatures of the profet on view at MoMA. Nonetheless the exhibition has a subversive agenda: It features 17 contemporary artists, almost all of them born in Islamic countries but now living in the United States and Europe, and sets out to show how these artists utmaning both popular preconceptions of their identity and the traditions of Islamic art.
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Born Tehran, Iran Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
MFA, New York Academy of Art
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York
"Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist", Katonah Museum of Art, NY
"The Fortune Teller", Perrotin, Shanghai, China
Ali Banisadr "The Changing Past" Victoria Miro, London
Princeton University Art Museum: Display of "Return to Mother", Mathey College Common Room, Princeton, NJ
"Return to Mother", Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
"These Specks of Dust", Kasmin, NY
"Beautiful Lies", Museo Stefano Bardini and
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
"Ali Banisadr /Matrix ", Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
"Ultramarinus-Beyond the Sea", Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
"Ordered Disorders", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
"Bosch & Banisadr, Ali Banisadr