Aun Gallery

Aun Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Iran's capital city Tehran.[1] It is owned and created by Afarin Neyssari.[2] The gallery comprises two exhibitions halls for dual exhibitions based in the: Sheikh Bahaei area in northern Tehran. Aun calls itself the Iran's first commercial art space designed and built to showcase contemporary art. The building offers 120 square meters of open exhibition space, a five-meter high ceiling and a paneled roof to provide maximum natural light. The gallery's unique architectural features allow for exhibitions of various arts including painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance.

History

Aun Gallery was established in September 2009 to promote young Iranian artists and support their contribution to Iran's cultural scene. The gallery holds ten to eleven solo exhibits per year, lasting approximately one month at a time. The gallery also hosted mixed media sculpture specialist Bita Fayyazi in 2009.

The Vanakarea has been popular with Iranian artists since the early 2000s, at which time it was a quiet residential area with light industry. More recently it has undergone extensive redevelopment with cafes, restaurants and media businesses. Sheikh Bahaei Square is a prime site with a central area of dining areas and shopping precincts.

Media

Aun Gallery has appeared in magazines and publications such as Bidoun,[3] as well as other local and international publications.

The gallery also featured in international travel magazine websites and online magazine The Culture Trip.[4]

Aun Gallery was also instrumental in the creation of the Tehran Gallery Guide, a dual English and Persian publication highlighting the upcoming month's art events in the Iranian capital. The publication ceased production in 2012.

International work

Aun's artists have exhibited globally with the gallery itself taking a summer excursion to the show fives artists' work in the Sydney Biennale in 2012.

Artists

Artists shown at the gallery include:

  • Abbas Akbari
  • Alireza Chalipa
  • Alireza Jodey
  • Amin Aghaei
  • Amirali Navaee
  • Azadeh Baloochi
  • Azin Osati
  • Behnam Kamrani
  • Bita Fayyazi
  • Bobak Etminani
  • Darvish Fakhr
  • Einoddin Sadeghzadeh
  • Elmira Roozbeh
  • Estabragh Mousavi Fard
  • Farideh Shahsavarani
  • Golnar Adili
  • Hossein Zeynalpour
  • Koorosh Angali
  • Kourosh Golnari
  • Mansour Vakili
  • Maryam Khosrovani
  • Mehdi Nabavi
  • Mohammad Bahabadi
  • Mohammad Hossein Emad
  • Mohammad Keyvan
  • Mohsen Jamalinik
  • Morteza Talebi
  • Nafiseh Emran
  • Nazgol Ansarinia[3]
  • Nouriman Manouchehrifar
  • Omid Bazmandegan
  • Omid Hallaj
  • Parham Taghioff[5]
  • Pooya Aryanpour
  • Rima Eslammaslak
  • Sahar Khalkhalian
  • Samaneh Rahbarnia
  • Setare Sanjari
  • Shahrzad Monem
  • Shaqayeq Arabi
  • Shaya Shahrestani
  • Tabassom Taham
  • Yasser Mirzaee
  • Zanbagh Lotfi

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sayyah, Syma (11 October 2009). "Aun Gallery: The latest talk of the town in Tehran". Payvand Iran News. Payvand. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Rasmussen, Sune Engel (22 January 2013). "Iranian artists hit by sanctions". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Nazgol Ansarinia at Aun Gallery, Tehran". Bidoun. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Street Art in Iran: Social Commentary on the Streets of Tehran". The Culture Trip. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Taghioff, Parham. "Biography". Retrieved 4 June 2014.

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