Persian Visions

Contemporary Photography from Iran
October 14, 2005 - January 8, 2006
Esmail Abbasi, Generous Butcher

Organized by Gary Hallman, University of Minnesota, and Hamid Severi, Head of

Research and Photography Departments, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Persian Visions is the first survey of contemporary Iranian photography to be presented in the United States. The exhibition provides a rare, revealing view of Iranian life and experiences with more than 60 works by renown Iranian photographers. The twenty photographers in the exhibition are among Iran’s most celebrated photographers, all of whom use the medium for cultural expression and self exploration. Many of the artists are well known throughout Europe, and several have lived abroad and experienced Western culture before returning to Iran to re-experience and document their own culture. This perspective of life in Iran contradicts the way many foreign photographers use the medium which is to represent Iran and its people as merely exotic.

Ours is a time in which nothing could perhaps be more important than seeking to understand more fully the Persian world, its long and sophisticated history, its troubled present and our shared future Western and Middle Eastern. Persian Visions, along with the many guests, programs and seminars we will schedule throughout the run of the exhibition, offers us a rare opportunity to observe, to listen and to learn.

2005-2006 Gallery Exhibitions

 

Bev Beck Glueckhert: Balance and Survival

Steve Glueckert: Forty Miles of Bad Road
October 14 2005 - January 8 2006
Bev Beck Glueckert,
Untitled,
monoprint on paper
Steve Glueckert

Bev and Steve Glueckert are two of western Montana’s best-known and most productive and generous artists.  Steve Glueckert is the Missoula Art Museum’s curator, a position he has held for over 20 years.  Though he shows his own work very little, over his career he has generously championed young artists’ careers, written dozens of essays on our region’s art, and enlivened our region’s culture.  He will be exhibiting his mixed media sculptures and a series of whimsical, delightful “drawing machines” that he has created over several decades.

Bev Glueckert exhibited at the NIC over a decade ago.  Her work—delicate, lyrical, aesthetically complex mixed-media works incorporating printmaking and collage—are celebrations of the natural world and our close, but often troubled and confused relationship to the living things around us.  As an important component of this exhibition, the artists are collaborating on a unique, site-specific installation, Shelter, that will be featured in the Center Gallery.

 
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