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نمایشگاه آثار " نیلوفر رهنما " اردیبهشت 1401 گالری اثر
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نیلوفر رهنما
۹ تا ۳۰ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۱
گالری اثر نقاشی های اخیر نیلوفر رهنما را با عنوان سایه ها نمایش می دهد. در این مجموعه که برآیند توجه و علاقه ی نقاش به سادگی، پرداختن به اشیائی که در اطرافمان عادی می نمایند، و محدودیت های ناشی از همه گیری و استقراردرفضای داخلی است، با نقاشی هایی مواجهیم که با لطافت در عین صلابت، فضای خصوصی فیزیکی و فکری نیلوفر رهنما را در برابر دید قرار می دهند.
آغاز کار روی این مجموعه به حدود سه سال پیش باز می گردد؛ زمانی که به دلیل همه گیری کرونا و تغییر روش زندگی، رهنما با گذراندن همه ی وقت خود در فضای داخلی، ارتباطی جدید با اشیاء اطرافش پیدا کرد. ارتباطی که حاصل اندیشیدن آرامَش بود و از نهاد پرسشگر و پردقتش می آمد. این دقیق شدن در هر شیء ساده و عادی که در تکرار روزمرگی جذابیت خود را از دست داده بود، به مرور، و در نتیجه ی نگاه خاص او که قادر به آشنایی زدایی بود، هویتی دوباره پیدا کرد و به طراحی هایش راه یافت. با قوی تر شدن شخصیت هر آن چه بطور فیزیکی رهنما را احاطه کرده بود، وبه واسطه ی ارتباط جدیدش با آن ها، او رفته رفته به نقاشی کردنشان پرداخت، در بوم هایش گنجاندشان، و بدین ترتیب جانی تازه به آن ها بخشید. به بیانی، رهنما با بازخوانی روزمرگی حبس شده در محدودیتی ناگزیر، روایت شخصی خود را که ما حصل تأمل در تغییری عظیم و فراگیر بود به زبان نقاشانه بازآفرید.
نیلوفر رهنما در مجموعه ی اخیر خود، با انتخاب رنگ های خاکستری و در عین حال تمرکز بر اشیائی خاص با رنگ هایی خالص تر چون گیاهان وقراردادنشان بر آن بستر، علاوه بر بازی عیانش با نور و سایه و ایجاد کنج هایی خلوت درعین حال چشم نواز، تضادی در شکل و محتوا ایجاد کرده است که همچون موقعیت کنونی مان بی دوام می نماید.
نیلوفر رهنما متولد ۱۳۵۴ در تهران است و آثارش نزدیک به دو دهه است که در ایران، اروپا، چین و کویت به نمایش در آمده است.
Assar Art Gallery presents Shadows, an exhibition of recent paintings by Niloofar Rahnama. Marked by her strong focus on simplicity, attention to everyday objects, and the limitations created by the global pandemic forcing everyone to stay indoors, the paintings are delicate but strong, and show intimate indoor spaces as well as intellectual paths of Niloofar Rahnama.
Work on these paintings started nearly three years ago, when the novel coronavirus pandemic caused a drastic change in the daily lives of all of us. Spending all of her time indoors, Rahnama developed a new relationship with objects around her —a relationship built over contemplating tranquility, rooted in her curious and observant character.
Her unique view in studying every simple and mundane object that had lost its significance through repetitious everyday interactions, and her defamiliarizing rendition, gradually gave them a new identity, enabling the artist to reinvent them in her drawings. As the intensity and characteristics of everything that had physically surrounded Rahnama grew stronger and she became more used to her new relationships with them, she started painting them, composing them in her canvases, and breathing new life into each and every one of them. In other words, exploring the essence of the routine during the inevitable lockdown, Rahnama created her own narrative, the consequence of studying the radical global change, through the language of painting.
In this new series, using gray hues in addition to focusing on objects with unique colors such as plants and composing them over the grays, while playing with light and shadow and creating pleasant corners of tranquility, Niloofar Rahnama implies a contrast between form and content, resembling the same ephemerality that our present condition implies.
Niloofar Rahnama was born in Tehran in 1975. Her work has been widely exhibited in Iran, Europe, China, and Kuwait during the past two decades.
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Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.
