Barbad Golshiri
Barbad Golshiri (born 1982 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian contemporary artist. He has worked both as a media artist and a critic.{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2013-09-19 |title=Barbad Golshiri: ‘Curriculum Mortis’ |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/arts/design/barbad-golshiri-curriculum-mortis.html |access-date=2022-12-17 |issn=0362-4331}} He works with video, digital media, installation, photography, the internet, graphic novels and Lettrism.{{Cite web |title=Barbad Golshiri |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG221749 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=The British Museum}}
Biography
His father was famed Iranian writer, Houshang Golshiri,{{Cite web |title=Barbad Golshiri |url=https://framerframed.nl/mensen/barbad-golshiri/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Framer Framed |language=en-EN}} and his mother is Farzaneh Taheri,{{Cite web |title=A Portrait of Houshang Golshiri in Texts, Contexts, Manuscripts and Fragments {{!}} Iranian Studies |url=https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/stanford-festival-iranian-arts-events/portrait-houshang-golshiri-texts-contexts-manuscripts |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=iranian-studies.stanford.edu |language=en}} a renowned literary translator. He studied painting at The School of Art and Architecture, Azad University, Tehran.
Career
He won the third prize of the 6th Tehran Contemporary Painting Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. In the criticism symposium of the biennial, Golshiri's paper was praised as one of the three best articles.{{Cite web |last=Arend |first=Ingo |date=2011 |title=It’s All About Change |url=https://universes.art/en/nafas/articles/2011/tehran-art-scene |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=universes.art |language=en-US}}
Amiel Grumberg, the curator of "Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene - 2004" exhibition writes:
Barbad Golshiri's series of videos, installations, and photography expresses a remarkable balance between foreign art influences and Iranian resonances".Grumberg, A: "Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene - 2004" catalogue. An Apex Art publication, 2005
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After showing the work for the second time in New York, critics emphasized the exotic value of his work, finding arabesque motives in his locks of hair.Golshiri, B: "Beams of Blue" exhibition, An Apeejay Media Gallery catalogue, New Delhi.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://barbadgolshiri.com Official website]
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