islamicists, republicans, all working within this field and giving their own voice. so we wanted to represent that dynamic period of modernism, when iranian artists were really exploring different ways of expressing their own modernity. we have oil paintings, and sculpture, and photography. we have film, installation work, and animation. and over half our artists are women, so really creating a very dynamic voice. within the era of modernism, it s interesting to look at some of those key artists, all of whom are iconic today. so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian
so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian his work, veiled woman , won the first prize of the very first tehran biennal in 1958. he has explored local idioms and nuances, and his portrayal on these flat washes of colour of a woman emerging from a bathhouse in downtown tehran, looking at you sideways, really exemplifies the kind of exploration that artists were interested in doing then. the incredible thing is that there is this misnomer in western art history that modernism was something that was invented in the west, and then exported like a good around the world. whereas, in fact, in the kind of transnational modernisms that are being explored now, we re understand
it s interesting to look at some of those key artists, all of whom are iconic today. so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian his work, veiled woman , won the first prize of the very first tehran biennal in 1958. he has explored local idioms and nuances, and his portrayal on these flat washes of colour of a woman emerging from a bathhouse in downtown tehran, looking at you sideways, really exemplifies the kind of exploration that artists were interested in doing then.
within the era of modernism, it s interesting to look at some of those key artists, all of whom are iconic today. so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian his work, veiled woman , won the first prize of the very first tehran biennal in 1958. he has explored local idioms and nuances, and his portrayal on these flat washes of colour of a woman emerging from a bathhouse in downtown tehran, looking at you sideways, really exemplifies the kind of exploration that artists were interested in doing then. the incredible thing is that there is this misnomer in western art history that
all working within this field and giving their own voice. so we wanted to represent that dynamic period of modernism, where iranian artists were really exploring different ways of expressing their modernity. we have oil paintings, sculpture, and photography. we have film, installation work, and animation. and over half our artists are women, so really creating a very dynamic voice. within the era of modernism, it s interesting to look at some of those key artists, all of whom are iconic today. so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian his work, veiled woman , won the first prize