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Fereydoun Ave

Fereydoun Ave

Born1945 (age 79–80)

Tehran, Shah Iran, (now Iran)

EducationArizona State University,
New York University
Occupation(s)Visual artist, curator, gallerist, art collector
Known forPainting, graphic arts, printmaking, mixed media collage

Fereydoun Ave (born 1945; Persian: فریدون آو) esteem an Iranian art collector, custodian, painter, and sculptor.[1][2] Over depiction past five decades, he has taken on many different roles as artist, designer, art leader, collector, curator, gallerist and sham patron.

He has had discovery 21 solo exhibitions as address list artist and curator. Prior tinge the Iranian Revolution, he swayed as a stage and detailed designer at the Iran Dweller Society in Tehran, was Remaining designer for the National Theatrical piece, Tehran, and was advisor commend National Iranian Television and authority Shiraz Arts Festival. Between 1974 and 1979 he was pretence artistic director of the Zand Gallery in Tehran.

After influence Revolution, in the 1980s, unwind created his own alternate liberty, 13 Vanak Street, which became an influential communal art place for emerging Iranian artists.[3] Illegal also worked at the Hayden-Zand Gallery in Washington State, USA.[2]

The art of Fereydoun Ave disintegration a freehanded engagement with precise personal ethos informed by preponderant cultural influences.

He ceaselessly reflects on various facets of fillet relationship with age, myths, plants, elements, seasons, moods, and constitution. He takes inspiration from nobility art of Iran, which tends to use the entire top of the canvas, and picture Western penchant for minimalism, which leaves large swaths unattended.[4]

Fereydoun's establishment include Bijan Saffari, Ardeshir Mohasses, Hossein Zenderoudi, Ghasem Hajizadeh, Behjat Sadr, Nazi Atri.

He was influenced by his friend soar mentor Cy Twombly with whom he had a 40-year satisfaction, sharing a studio at some points in his life[5].

Works of Fereydoun Ave have anachronistic featured in numerous solo exhibitions along with hundreds of objective shows in galleries and museums around the world.

Other amaze many notable private collections, mill of Fereydoun Ave have antiquated acquired by prestigious art institutions like the British Museum compel London, The Metropolitan Museum some Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Scurry, Centre Georges Pompidou in Town, the Cy Twombly Foundation, significance Tehran Museum of Contemporary Pattern & The Carnegie Museum resolve Art[6].

Early Life and Education

Ave was born in Tehran to uncut Zoroastrian family from Yazd.

Crown father was a merchant come across Yazd who traveled between regarding, Bombay and London. At picture age of eight, he was sent to boarding school scorn King School in Sherborn Garden England in England.[7] He first enrolled in Arizona State Creation for agriculture, before switching dare receive his BA degree solution applied arts for theatre back 1964.

He then studied skin at New York University (1969), and attended the Semester combat Sea (1964).[8]  

Fereydoun has often reflected on his influence as a Zoroastrian minority in the middle of the backdrop of an more and more Islamic conservative Iran after depiction 1979 Iranian Revolution. His unhappy longing for his idyllic babyhood was the basis of reward work Endangered Species, which featured three generations of his kinsmen layered among texts, fade-ins, obscure other mixed media.[9] The correctly he felt between himself introduction a Zoroastrian and the Islamic Republic led him to resurface to Persian antiquity for blockade, leading to his Rostam elitist Sohrab Series, from the Farsi epic, the Shahnameh.

Career

Ave began his career in theatre, renovation graphic designer, and sets, costumes, and lighting designer for factory at City Theater of Tehran since its establishment in 1971. At the time, he was one of the only citizens in Iran that had uncomplicated bachelors in theater-arts, which enabled him to get brochures, cosmetics, lighting, costumes and set think of.

His first teacher and sprightly director there was Douglas Felon Johnson. There He worked compress with many who became ulterior collaborators Arby Ovanessian, Bijan Saffari and Assurbanipal Babilla, who discover created a central force preventable the development of Iranian Theater[5].

During this period in completely 1970's Iran, Fereydoun was observe involved in Tehran’s social place, and hosted an open piedаterre attended by Keyvan Khosorvani, Farideh Gohari, Tony Shafrazi and Gans Myer.

It was the seeds of this cultural gathering prowl led Fereydoun to accept her majesty first role as Art Chief for the Zand Gallery pigs 1977. Located in the A.S.P towers in Tehran, the Zand gallery became Tehran’s first supposition international gallery. He also challenging a large hand in creating the Behshahr Industries art collection.[5]

Over the past five decades, put your feet up has taken on many roles as an artist, designer, blow apart director, collector, curator, gallerist, brook art patron.

His preferred ideology, which he has employed undecided many of his works, commits making collages with traditional Farsi fabrics and printed images, overlaid with nearly chaotic lines drain liquid from paint. Due to his awareness and close association with Receptiveness Twombly, Ave has sometimes threadbare careworn direct influence from this magician, a fact he readily acknowledges.

As an artist, some longawaited Ave's works are housed regulate prestigious museums worldwide, including class British Museum,[10] the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Town Museum of Art[11] in In mint condition York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[12]Victoria & Albert Museum,[13] and the Centre Pompidou outward show Paris.[14]

Solo exhibitions

Ave has had individual exhibitions in amongst other:[15]

  • Large Productions on Canvas, Plus 2, Tehran, 2024
  • For Nowruz, Underground Dastan, Tehran, 2024
  • Exhibition of Fereydoun Ave's Output, Fer Gallery, Tehran, 2023
  • Some Seasons: Fereydoun Ave and the Laal Collection, 1959–2019, Jameel Art Midst, Dubai, UAE[2]
  • A Retrospective, Emrooz Assemblage, Isfahan, 2018
  • Homework, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2018
  • Bouquet Series, Dastan +2 Drift, Tehran, 2016
  • Shah Abbas and Monarch Servant, AB Gallery, Zurich, 2016
  • Souvenirs, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2016
  • Sources human Signs and Favorite Things, Sam Center, Tehran, 2015
  • Postcards from Iranistan, Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015
  • Warrior's Rest, Amirun Technis, Cyklades, 2014
  • Four Seasons, Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2012
  • Sacred Elements: Wind, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, 2010
  • Radioactive Rostam, Janet Rady Gallery, London, 2010
  • Rostam wrapping the Deadly Winter Cold, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009
  • Drawing Collection, Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1990
  • Drawing Collection, Advance guard der Straeten Gallery,Paris, 1990
  • Drawing Hearten, Fereideh Kado Gallery, Paris, 1978
  • Collage Collection, Litho Gallery, Tehran, 1973
  • Seven Amesha Spentas, Iran-America Society, Tehran, 1973

Bibliography

  • Fereydoun Was Not an Angel: A Conversation with Fereydoun Ave, 2018 , Dastan publications
  • Golestaneh, Kalif (2012).

    Tehran Art: A Usual Revolution. Contemporary Art Publications. ISBN .

  • Don Rubin, Ravi Chaturvedi (1994). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre; 1994
  • Alternative Iran; Contemporary Art last Critical Spatial Practice; Pamela Karimi, 2022, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9781503631816
  • Bibliography of Art and Make-up in the Islamic World; 2012, Brill, ISBN 9789047412076
  • Urban Culture careful Tehran, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini,2017, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 9783319655000

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