Monir Shahroudy Farmanfaraian

Cosmic geometry

Karen Marta, Hans Ulrich Obrist

222 pages, parution le 04/10/2011

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Résumé

"A role model for the artist of the twenty-first century?
-Hans Ulrich Obrist

Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings, and nightingales. Coming of age during World War II, she left occupied Iran and audaciously set out for New York, where she was quickly absorbed into the city's thriving avant-garde. In the decades to follow, during successive exiles in Tehran and New York, Farmanfarmaian developed an intuitive yet painstakingly crafted artistic practice in mirror mosaic and reverse-painted glass that weds the cosmic patterning of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction.

This book is the first substantial survey of Farmanfarmaian's acclaimed geometric works, and features an in-depth interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; critical essays by Nader Ardalan, Media Farzin, and Eleanor Sims; warm tributes by Farmanfarmaian's admirers Etel Adnan, Siah Armajani, caraballo-farman, Golnaz Fathi, Hadi Hazavei, Susan Hefuna, Aziz Isham, Rose Issa, Faryar Javaherian, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, Donna Stein, and Frank Stella; an excerpt from The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture by Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (1973); and an annotated timeline of Farmanfarmaian's life by Negar Azimi.

L'auteur - Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist est co-directeur des programmes et directeur des projets internationaux à la Serpentine Gallery de Londres. Son projet Conversations a été distingué par le Van Alen Institute qui lui a décerné le New York Prize Senior Fellowship.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Grafiche Damiani
Auteur(s)	Karen Marta, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Parution	04/10/2011
Nb. de pages	222
Format	24 x 30
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1403g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9788862081757
ISBN13	978-88-6208-175-7