Andisheh Avini Exhibition
I-20 Gallery
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Avini’s artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, and installation. His subversive employment of materials culls anything from antique parlor house paintings and earth from the holy site of Mecca to classical craft-based techniques, each somehow specific to an idea of Iranian sensibility, history, identity, and memory.
In his new series of silkscreen paintings, Avini sourced iconic newspaper photographs from spring 1979 marking the homecoming of the Ayatollah Khomeini that followed the ousting of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. While these images have been widely disseminated in the media, Avini reevaluates the associations that they invoke thirty years after this transformative event and tempered by current developments. As much a personal recollection as a collective one, this cycle of paintings provokes intensely personal reactions to instantly recognizable images that have become engrained in the historical archive.
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Schedule
from May 09, 2009 to June 20, 2009