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Etemad Gallery Seyed Hamid Nourkeyhani July 2014 Like Nobody 01
Tehran

Praise the Creator

Like Nobody!...

In late November of 2012 at Etemad’s painting and plastic arts gallery, the curtain will be up for only one day, so you and I will witness a particular style of modern painting that will take us into the realm of colors and imaginative patterns.

With the prevalence of photography, more than all other arts, painters and architects harbored new thoughts and styles, therefore breaking away from the classics, namely realism and naturalism, though much earlier, in 16th century, a Flemish painter who lived for 65 years was not understood in his own time. Today, Hieronymus Bosch has received attention from art connoisseurs for his ambitious and groundbreaking styles.

More than four centuries have passed and we came a long way; from Whistler, Matisse, Degas, Van Gough, Claude Monet, Vasarely, George Braque and his counterpart Pablo Picasso to Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock and many others, until the contemporary architects of Iran, namely Kamran Diba, Abdolaziz Farman Farma, Nader Ardalan, Hussein Amanat and Hooshang Seyhoon.

In modern and plastic arts, the age of modernism had already started in America and Europe. But with a bit of delay, it was academically pursued in Iran, in the Fine Arts School of Tehran University. The pioneering professors of Iranian contemporary arts never imitated anyone, and that was the manner by which they trained their students.

Many of the renowned individuals in that period, the late Morteza Momayez, Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Farshid Mesghali, Parviz Tanavoli, Aydin Aghdashloo, Abbas Kiarostami and many others who soared from this very same origin, will be remembered in the history of Iranian arts forever.

In the debut of Hamid Nourkeyhani’s painting exhibition, which by the way is a graduate of school of architecture and a distinguished student of Kamran Diba, I’m exalted. It is fall of 2012 and I, a 67-year-old professor, who distinctly remembers the pop art paintings of the Beatles and Hendricks era, exuberantly looking forward to 29th of November. Why? Because:

Kamran Diba and Aydin Aghdashloo (who never had words for the sake of utterance) commended the paintings of Nourkeyhani. Let’s enjoy and share the pleasure of watching and perceiving patterns that are abstract and not, formalistic and not. Let’s divulge ourselves with his paintings of bright colors and at times, diluted and faded hues, the lines and shapes through which token of objects and live beings glance at us. Come, so he will be understood in his life time.

Akbar Alemi,

1391/8/27 

Seyed  Hamid  Nourkeyhani

Born on 24 th 1947 in Tehran.

He graduated in architecture from Faculty of Fine Arts University of Tehran in July 1973

Solo Exhibitions:

2014    Abstract  Painting  , Shalman Gallery , Tehran , Iran

2012    A  Sketch of  A Sketch , Etemad Gallery , Tehran , Iran

نمایشگاه آثار " سید حمید نور کیهانی " با عنوان " مثل هیچکس " تیر 1393 گالری اعتماد 01

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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.


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