After an amazing day of lecture and a great guest speaker Ana with the Art Newspaper..totally inspired to rethink the way that we have been taught about art & art history. Education is KEY when it comes to understanding another culture/ another cultures artwork especially when Americans approach the Middle Eastern art & culture. Ignorance is only breading fear and hate. I found a great article on a artist that is really making a name for himself in Iran. Farhad Ahrarnia is featured by Middle East specialist art magazine Canvas as ‘one to watch.' Below you can look at some of his work...
He works in a range of media from video to embroidery and photography, Ahrarnia’s choice of technique (craft versus technology) and his subject matter (domestic versus international) are in his own words: “A reflection and testimony to the complexities of contemporary experience rooted in the hybrid, fragmented and diverse Middle Eastern ‘reality’ where tradition and modernity fuse."
http://artradarasia.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/iranian-artist-farhad-ahrarnia-picked-as-one-to-watch-canvas/
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