Friday, December 23, 2005

Call for Art 2006

Introduction : Kolahstudio.com is a non-for profit ,independent and rebellious underground Media ,Aims to move the human spirit. We seek something else ,because life is something else.and so … we are using all our capabilities and power to Tell the truth ,to be a mirror and not to be a nice image off the wall. After 2 Issues of Kolahstudio resume 2004 and 2005 in Flash Format , Kolahstudio would like you to introduce the Shocking Media – Brainstorm – On PDf or Flash Format , uncensored and free to download on the Website or Email.The First Public issue of The Magazine would bring you 40 portrait images of expressing and Rebellious Art + Articles about World of Art and more exclusive shots from Iranian graffiti and urban Art.If you are ready to Help Us selecting Art works or Contributing for this issue ,let us Know by Email : editor @ Kolahstudio . com






Submitted works Should be New and Available by 1 month after publishing.

Entries :You can send 2 or 3 Images of your collected works in any Visual Media and in any art forms are accepted ,if express a feeling: paintings , Cartoons ,illustrations , Sculptures Graphic Designs , Photographs and Urban Art .Min : 2 , Max :3
We are responsible to publish maximum 40 Artworks ,to achieve The usable web access for the media. And there would be no view point to choose art works. Being expressive is the Theme and The Portrait would be the title.
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File size and format: All images most be In JPG of Giff Format more than 50kbs and less than 500kbs in size. .minimum size for the long side would be : 500Pixels and the max size would be 1024 pixels .
Theme : portrait and expression
Dead line: 15 January 2006
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Nature in Iranian Contemporary Painting 2005

A painting Exhibition Titled: Nature in Iranian Contemporary Painting” is now open for the public show,in Tehran .The exhibition contaied of Iranian contemporary paintings ,with masterpieces from Sohrab Sepehri , Iran darroodi and some other junior and senior Artists.But the sad side of truth is the level of This Exhbition,in which you can not find more then 4 works ,worth paying attention.after melenium exhibition in which most of works are like decorative realism and Barbizon paintings and the most progressive works where some ugly copies of paul klee’s.
I really Don’t like to visit an Art Exhibition about to show popular and cheap Art in 2006. and I just know That Nature is not such a cheap existence as of those curatorz!!!!

Friday, December 9, 2005

An extreme instance of Artbook Censorship


Censoring is not a new phenamenon in Iran & many other countries around the globe.It mostly comprises those medias which are regarded against society’s governmental , social ,religious prospects.
In some countries ,cultural censorship is one of the most important devices used by the government . as a major and powerful weapon to hinder any mental improvement or any particular movement in the society.
In Islamic republic of Iran ,beside internet censorship ,media censorship and self-censorship(an Epidemic disease in Iran’s present anti-secular Rules),cultural sencorship ,the common kind of censoring is worth mentioning once more.





Undoubtedly finding Up to date books is something hard to achieve in Tehran . In a couple of bookstores of capital ,Tehran, you can find some categorized Foreign art and cultural books from Some popular western publishers ( exp. Thames & Hudson , taschen ,phaidon and …),but in all this books you can not find any surviving from censorship. If they are not censored by cruel black markers or razors ,they cant’t escape the white labels.


It seems as if Art is nothing ,but entertainment & artist is nobody but the producer of the costumer of the ill media.Perhaps ,They consume art students as ones who look for jusus tits or little holy kids pennies in Leonardo DaVinchi’s or he just seeks a man and a woman lying together in Mark Chagal’s Painting.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Father is gone For Ever

Morteza Momayez –The Father of Iranian modern Graphic- Has closed His Book of Life in 26 November 2005, while he was suffering from a long-live pain. Momayez-Born in 1936 – had started design since 1965 and working with many Domestic and foreign Medias and Cultural Institutes. In 1968 he had startet his studies on fine and decorative arts in National France
Fine arts University .

In the late 30 years of His life ,momayez has been working all day with Students and teaching in Iranian Art Universities and helped too many young artists to find the way to the Graphic World, Infact The Nikname-Father of Iranian Graphic –is because of This teaching attitude he had since 30 years ago and the creativity he discovered and Tolerate in Iranian Graphic
Design scene.

 kolahstudio.com Image Archieve
Gilgamesh illustration serie
Designed by M.Momatez
Mono Print



“For the graphic arts in Iran, whose history reaches back to the second half of the Nineteenth Century, the wall ad or poster is a new feature. Before, our graphic arts were comprised chiefly of calligraphy, book illustration, signage, caricature and illustration. These elements formed the pillars of our graphic arts in the past.
About fifty years ago, the first movie posters the size of cinema billboards were designed and produced by the Sorouri brothers, Mushekh and Napoleon, who had recently immigrated to Iran from Armenia. Later, Frederick Talberg, an émigré from Sweden, took the lead in poster design, particularly in adver­tising. Despite such activities, the poster did not play a significant role for the culture as a whole, largely because of the lack of printing machines for producing large posters…”

Morteza Momayez
Introduction to a book “ Art of Poster in Iran”




 kolahstudio.com Image Archieve
Antonioni cinema
Designed by M.Momatez
1975
Offset-83x57 cm


“Before Momayez there was plenty of unbalances and complexity in Iranian Graphic art and there was absolutely nothing called “Logo “ in Iran ,before him”said Aidin Aghdashlou,Iranian Master Painter” It was Morteza Momayez , Ghobad Shiva and Farshid Methghali who made life to Iranian Poster Art” He continues.The Fact is That Momatyez approaches are worthy because of his success in making a true path for the Iranian young Talent.
Beside Graphic design and the long way he has passed true his Art life ,Momayez Has a Film making Experiments : 3 short films – Flying Black , “those who act and Those who dream” & “One green Point”which has won the 1973 Moscow Film Festival Award.

 kolahstudio.com Image Archieve
Cometition
Designed by M.Momatez
1975 Offset 97.5x50

Thursday, November 17, 2005

PhotoTalk - Kolahstudio Big Show











Kolahstudio Big Art Show ends...

Saturday, November 12, 2005

The First Kolahstudio Group Exhibition

The First Group Exhibition of Kolahstudio Artists is Now open for Public from 12 November 2005 and will be continued Until 17 November in Behzad Art Gallery ,Teheran,IRAN.


Karan Reshad –Kolahstudio Former and Manager- aims to break the silence taking Iranian Desperate young Artists and Invite them to Exhibit their works for Iranian People.
The main Atmosphere in which the exhibition is stable is the Expression. Expression of The inner and The fact of Being true nomatter what the situation. Kolahstudio Has selected 4 artists from among ten Artists to include their works for November 2005 Exhibition.Kaveh Tavakoli, Ismaeel Bahrani and Arash Khodaee are showing their works beside Karan Reshad in a Great Exhibition space on Keshavars Blvd. Tehran.
5 figurative ,wood sculptures , 2 children illustration books and more that 100 Works of Expressionism Art are ready for people to visit in The First kolahstdio Exhibition.

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Tehran 7th Cartoon Biennale

The 7th Tehran International Cartoon Biennale is now open for public to visit Cartoons from participating Cartoonists around the world.
it is not as well as previous biennales but it's acceptable with names like " Kyoumars Kyasat" , "Ares" and "Kambiz Derambakhsh"

Friday, November 4, 2005

Afshin Pirhashemi Showing His 2005 Works

The Painting exhibition of Afshin Pirhashemi , The Iranian Young Painter who has justly won the second prize for his painting -Women- in China Biennale 2005 is Now open at Seyhoun Art gallery in Tehran. the Exhibition would continue till 11 November 2005 .


Big canvases of Mostly black and white Images made of an Abstract Atmospheres taking Realistic figures and portraits inside. Maybe it’s not false to say that One good aspect of Mr.pirhashemi’s Paintings is the right usage of Abstract Expressionism achievements in making his backgrounds and limiting his works to a condition of semi Drawing/semi Painting. The symbolism of Candles and some gothic themes beside a deep influence of Christianity and- Shocking in this Exhibition- an Islamic Hand symbol is Mostly appearing in Afshin pirhashemi’s Paintings and that’s a point we can’t see it’s reason ,yet.

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Group Exhibition at Laleh Gallery Nov.2005

The Group painting Exhibition of 6 Iranian Painters is about To end At Laleh art Gallery Tehran.


About 50 Works by Artists - Negar Aurang , Maryam Beyk moradi , Nahid Tavakoli , Ali Khoshkam , Mohammad Sharafi Tehrani and Farzaneh Tak- in merely different techniques and Atmospheres ,but maybe alike in sadness of the viewpoints. Most of the works in The Exhibition can be categorized as Expressionism and Some works are about to touch the Suereal scene. Portraits of Distorted faces painted with rough brushing ,some abstract works on 100x100cms canvases and some photographic spots of Details from Every day life are shown beside 5 Mixed media Works done with Black color , concentrated on lines and Radiology Films effects on background

Friday, October 28, 2005

Group Painting Studies 5

Photos are showing some shots from the Fifth Kolahstudio Group Painting ,in which Artists seek to discover a new atmosphere. Through this Studies in which 2 or more Artists Co operate to paint a Canvas ,We want to realize how we treat to Images and visual expressions and Show our art partners what is really comes from our inner.




The painting has been started by Arash Khodaee (Painter) and Kaveh Tavakoli (Painter) and continued by them till the concept and main forms and colors have finished. The rest of the painting is done by Kaveh Tavakoli and some little things are done by Karan Reshad (Painter).

See The previous Group painting : Here

Saturday, October 22, 2005

PhotoTalk-Sculture1

Photos Show Some shots from Iranian Contemporary Sculptures ,shown in 2005
Art Events in Tehran.





Thursday, October 20, 2005

They Hate Our Freedom!

PROPAGANDA 2.0
the 'THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM' art show
on FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 8 pm - 2 am Blue Cube- San francisco
& November 12 at the PROJECT gallery- LA.

According to the Startsome Propaganda Show Calling ,The NEW ART in this show will confound all those who might HATE OUR FREEDOM.
PROPAGANDA 2.0 exhibitions will consist exclusively of posters, t-shirts, and stickers.
NOTHING will be sold, and there will be NO outside sponsors for the shows.























hundreds of artists thousands of pieces of propaganda :
Confirmed Artists?
Shepard Fairey David Choe Eric Orr Winston Smith Aidan Hughes Bask DURKL Tes One Klutch Visual Narcotics:20mg Pure Evil ZOLTRON TV BOY Plasticgod UNVOZModel Slut in Paradise Buff Monster Culprit Research Project Rex Williams Douglas MinklerThe Evolution Control Committee TradeMark G. CRFTP I-MANIFEST Viagrafik Gestaltungsbüro FATCOP XXL Braveland Design Vinnie Ray MAD ONE Chris CogganEan Golden David Hart Mike Callaghan Armando H. Torres option-g Giulio IurissevichVinnie Ray Kyle Goen Marcus Gardner Gettys Industries Tim Hall Jasmine Worth Otis Chamberlain Peat Wollaeger Scot Lefavor Nicole Schulman Tricia Choi Know Our EnemyLMAC Bernard Rauch Billy Bishop Carl Burton RIV Mike Callaghan Mark MolitorAnthony Grant Christopher Nash Douglas Minkler Deathattack Poor Al Casey O'ConnellVULCAN Erik Siador Protein Make It Blue Marcus Gardner David Hart Robert DohrmannJorel Tingesdahl l Justin Tolentino poplab graphics esm artificial Billionaires for Bush Jo Ann Sollecito Chris Mostyn The First Amendment Project CAI Bernard Rauch Marcus GardnerStephen Pearcy Kyle Goen Graphonic Radioactive Future Josh MacPhee Alexander Heirarea3 Bradford Hornsby Adam Faja Igor Knezevic Fernando Amaro James LundriganIan Guy Elias Garcia Haik Hoisington 47 Nazli G. Mark Bode Robots will Kill Clinton FeinExpress Your View Charles A. Beers Josh MacPhee 86 Mike Callaghan Mr. Shrew A1one (Karan Reshad) From Iran Vintage Propaganda from the Last Gasp Collection Liberation Iannillo Cum* James Coxon Cameron Ross Scot Lefavor Lose Lose Nino RodriguezBrad Hornsby Senator TOM WESTERLIN Chad Mallum [sic] Michael Mut

+
VINTAGE PROPAGANDA FROM THE LAST GASP COLLECTION
POLITICAL STREET ART FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
+
THE EVOLUTION CONTROL
COMMITTEE
THE COLLABORATIVE ARTS INSURGENCY
THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT
EAN GOLDEN (aka Fidelski) from CRFTP
NAMELESS political punk band
(everyone is under 12!)

FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 8 pm - 2 am
Blue Cube map to 34 Mason


performances projections mash-ups spoken wordnew media special guests DJs live music more

NO outside sponsorsNO art will be soldFREE ADMISSION!

propaganda 2.0 opens in LA on November 12 at the PROJECT gallery.

additional PROPAGANDA 2.0 information

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Karan Reshad Exhibition On Seyhoun Art Gallery

Iranian Junior Male Artist ,Karan Reshad ,is holding a Solo Painting exhibition at Seyhoun Art Gallery –Tehran ,Iran from15 to 21 October 2005 .About 34 Paintings
By the Artist are concluded to be exhibited in this show. Pieces are mainly titled “Alones”As the Works and theme of Karan Reshad’s Paintings through last two years ,was always loneliness and the philosophic means of Existence.


Karan Reshad has been painting about 7 years ,and it’s about 2 years that he is painting professionally and established his Personal studio In Tehran. His second Exhibition is dated 12 to 17 November 2005 at: Behzad Art Gallery –Tehran.
“ I consider my portraits as some(individual) memorials for Loneliness” said the Artist” loneliness of ones who live in this century ,in Cities of this century and The loneliness which is hidden in our Breaths and Sighs. “ All of the works (K.Reshad Paintings) are categorized to Expressionism ,as the artist claims .

Saturday, October 15, 2005

China Biennale

Women - Painting By Iranian Artist ,Afshin Pirhashemi
The Winner of The Second prize of The China biennale 2005


China Biennale - The 30-day event and Probably one of the most Important Art Biennales in Asia, attracted more than 400 artists from 67 countries and regions, who bring more than 700 peaces of works, mainly paintings and sculptures.

Three works by Germany, British and Mexico artists won the best prizes at the Second Beijing International Art Biennale 2005.
"The Wise Virgins" by Anselm Kiefer from German, "Bent of Mind" by Tony Cragg from the Great Britain and "Arriving to New York" by Arturo Rivera from Mexico got the jury's favors among more more than 500 overseas artworks.

"Kerze II" by Gerhard Richter from Germany,"Woman" by Afshin Pirhashemi from Iran, "Float and the Might I" by Chusin Setiadikara from Indonesia, , "Closer" by Dario Urzay from Spain and "Unknown" by Anne-Karin Furunes from Norway got the second prizes of The china Biennale.

As an Iranian Art Media WE don't actualy know if Afshin Pirhashmi has recieved
his Prize from The Iranian Agent Who was supposed to deliver His prize from The
National Art Museum of China.

Sources:
http://www.pirhashemi.com
http://www.chinaculture.org

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Photo Talk*

Photos are Showing Some sculptures owned by Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ,Located in the Outdoor Enviroment of the Musuem(TMCA.)










* Photo Talk: Through this Week we Decide to Have Some photographic Description of What We really see in Iranian Art Scene ,Tehran.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

American Anti American ART Activities

An art exhibit that trashed the U.S. flag - and portrayed images of terror on the streets of New York - NearGround Zero to mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11 has been shout down by secter Serviece.
The show ridiculed the war on terror, depicted the death of civil liberties - and featured the image of a cocked pistol pointed at the head of President Bush in a work entitled, "Patriot Act."

Chicago artist Al Brandtner's "Patriot Act" featured 42 mock postage stamps with Bush's image - and a 9-mm. handgun leveled at his head. When exhibited in Chicago in April, Secret Service agents photographed it and launched a probe of the artist.
"It was a show of intimidation," Brandtner told the Daily News yesterday. "The work was done tongue and cheek. The idea was for people who didn't like George Bush to look at it and laugh."
Hanging at the Seaport will be his "Flag: Study in White No. 1," an upside-down and whitewashed U.S. flag. "The colors have been washed out," he said. "It shows the eroding of civil liberties in America."
• North Carolina artist Lisa Charde echoes that theme in "The (un)Patriotic(ic) Act," in which a straitjacket patterned after the flag portrays the supposed shackles on America's freedoms.
• New Jersey artist Grace Graupe-Pillard's "Interventions" takes images from the war in Iraq - car bombings, erupting flames, puddles of blood - and puts them on the streets of Manhattan to portray the "politics of fear" in "our own backyard."

After displaying a painting of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners, a San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at Abu Ghraib -- a black eye and bloodied brow delivered by an unknown assailant who apparently objected to the art work.

The assault outside the Capobianco gallery in the city's North Beach district Thursday night was the worst, but only the latest in a string of verbal and physical attacks that have been directed at owner Lori Haigh since the painting, titled "Abuse," was installed there on May 16.



Last Wednesday, concerned for the safety of her two children, ages 14 and 4, who often accompanied her to work, Haigh decided to close the gallery indefinitely.



Painted by Berkeley artist Guy Colwell, "Abuse," the painting at the center of the controversy, depicts three U.S. soldiers leering at a group of naked men in hoods with wires connected to their bodies. The one in the foreground has a blood-spattered American flag patch on his uniform. In the background, a soldier in sunglasses guards a blindfolded woman.



Thanks To "John Doffing " www.startsoma.com
Resources:
San Francisco Gate :LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer | May 29, 2004
NY Daily: DOUGLAS FEIDEN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER | August 31, 2005

Friday, September 23, 2005

A Woman won the top prize

A clay sculpture of a woman who has been sculpting for only three years won the top prize in this year's Central Otago Art Society Blossom Festival Art Exhibition.

WINNING ENTRY: Sonia Keogh with her winning sculpture in the Central Otago Art Society Blossom Festival Art Exhibition
EMMA DAWE/SouthlandTimes













While she couldn't remember exactly how she thought of the concept for her sculpture, she didn't take any inspiration from other artists because her work was unique, she said.

Twilight (2003)40 x 30 x 20cm Polymer clay, glass




Each sculpture is hand-moulded from flesh-toned polymer clay. Oven-firing hardens the clay, which is then coloured to enhance the characters’ features. A range of different media is used to complement and display the pieces. She estimated it took her 150 to 170 hours to complete the sculpture.
The awards were judged by Dunedin artist Sheryl McCammon, who said the standard was extremely high with lots of variety.

Detail From Bird (2003) 40 x 40 x 150cm Polymer clay, glass, feathers, accessories


Cromwell artist June Boulton was awarded second prize for her oil painting Through the Trees, while Wanaka's Denis Kent and Richard Parsons, of Alexandra, were awarded merits.

Detail : Gene (2003)




Also visit:
Artist’s WebSite :http://www.skulptor.com/
The Southerland times: http://www.stuff.co.nz/

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

About Venice biennale 2005

The Venice Biennale is the most important contemporary art event for Welsh artists to show their wares.

la biennale di Venezia - 1964-Rauschenberg






..The Venice Biennale... Art Architecture Cinema Dance Music Theatre... since 1895...





The Venice Biennale has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international events in the contemporary arts in accordance with a multi-disciplinary model which characterises its unique nature. It is world-beating for the International Film Festival (61 editions), for the International Art Exhibition (50 editions) and for the International Architecture Exhibition (9 editions), and continues the great tradition of the Festival of Contemporary Music (48 editions) and Theatre (36 editions), now flanked by the Festival of Contemporary Dance (2 editions). The Biennale promotes numerous publishing initiatives in the same sectors. Its visibility is high in all the media. Through the ASAC (Historic Archives of Contemporary Arts), the Biennale conserves the documentation of its history.

The Foundation's venues, which receive an increasingly vast international public (320,000 visitors per annum), are not owned by it but are made available by law by the Venice City Council - the Giardini di Castello (visual arts and architecture), the Palazzo del Cinema and the Palazzo del Casinò on the Lido (cinema) - or are obtained through plurennial agreements with the Italian Navy and the Inland Revenue - the Arsenale (visual arts and architecture), the Teatro alle Tese and the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (dance, music, theatre).




Art
51st International Art Exhibition
Directors:
María de Corral - The Experience of Art
Rosa Martínez - Always a Little Further


Visit The Venice Bienalle official website : Fun

Monday, September 12, 2005

Mahdi Mohammadi Paintings in Laleh Gallery

Mahdi Mohammadi ,Painter and Graphic designer is showing His Paintings at Laleh Art Gallery –Tehran.


He is one of The Posetive/Negative members–Iran and has been working for 10 years.
Mahdi mohammadi’s Paintings ,As I saw, are not Artistic ones but Some cood and clean
Images worked and well done from City Nightlight photos.



Also visit more from Mahdi Mohammadi in Mahdid.com

Maryam Rahimi Exhibition

As the photo shows ,Painting Exhibition of “Maryam Rahimi Namin” is Open at Seyhoun Art Gallery –Tehran.


In this Exhibition which is held from 10 to 15 September 2005 ,One would see two kinds of Paintings ( or maybe two different views expressed through colors and canvas). Going to her Exhibition ,today ,you see some Nostalgic and Romantic Atmosphere , which reminds you of all good feelings of Humanity and regrets of losing The time, but on the other hand you can see some Nice Expressive portraits of Depressed and Sad persons ,done very well (but not enough) .Hope to see more and better works by This Artist.