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Ariana Art Gallery Nov 2013 Bijan Rafaty 07
Tehran
در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته
بیژن رأفتی در تهران دهه بیست پا به جهان گذاشت. سال 1323 در شمیران، سال‌هایی که ناگهان همه‌چیز در ایران تغییر کرد، پوست انداخت و سایه جنگ دوم جهانی ایران را هم اشغال کرد.
او که هنردوستی و هنرمندی در خانواده‌اش ریشه داشت، پیش از آنکه بداند، شروع به طراحی و نقاشی کرد. در میانه دهه چهل وارد دانشگاه ملی شد ولی از دانشکده‌های علوم انسانی سر درآورد . روزگار او را به آن‌سوی جهان کشاند و این سرآغازی بود برای توجه به‌ خویشتن. کار‌‌ و زندگی در آمریکا او را از نزدیک با اتمسفر هنر مدرن و روز جهان درگیر کرد؛ مجادله‌ای که تا امروز ادامه دارد. چند سال پس از وقوع انقلاب، بیژن به ایران بازگشت. او دیگر فقط هنرمند بود؛ تنها در سرزمین مادری، در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته.
سال‌های جنگ، نبرد هنرمند بود با خود و گذشته‌ای که ساخته بود؛ برای بیان وضعیت جدید ظرف نقاشی را برگزیده. دوباره‌آموزی را با خلق و خواندن پی گرفت و سال‌هاست آتلیه خانه است و خانه آتلیه و مرزی میان زندگی و پدیدآورندگی‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌اش وجود ندارد.
نمایشگاه حاضر مروری است بر بیش از 10 سال آثار بیژن رأفتی. پنج مجموعه‌ای که در این نمایش کنار هم آمده‌اند میان سال‌های 2000 تا 2012 پدید آمده‌اند و به‌واقع شمایل هنرمند است میان جمع. یاد‌نوشته‌ها قدیمی‌ترین مجموعه به نمایش گذاشته شده و رویای ایکاروس مجموعه متأخر است. در این نمایشگاه شاهد تنوعی هستیم از دوره‌های مختلف کاری، هر قدر آوردگاه در ساخت اثر به نقاشی نزدیک‌تر است، نقطه‌ صفر مرزی مجموعه‌ای است میان‌رشته‌ای که مبانی متمایزتری دارد.
In Search of Lost Time
Bijan Ra’faty was born in the 1940s in Tehran. In 1944 in Shemiran, the years of abrupt changes and metamorphoses, the time when the dark clouds of the WWII overcast the skies of Iran. 
He, who was born in an art appreciating and creative family, started drawing and painting even before he knew. In the mid 60s he attended the Melli University (National University of Iran), but ended up in the faculty of humanities. Then he was pulled to the other end of the world. This was the beginning of him focusing on himself. Living and working in the States closely involved him in the atmosphere of the modern art and the new art around the world, the involvement that is still going on. A few years after the outbreak of the revolution, he returned to Iran. He was by now a mere artist; alone in his homeland, in search of lost time.
During the War, the artist was at war, too, with himself and with the past he had made, for having chosen painting as the means of expressing the new conditions. Through creating and reading he went on relearning and as a result his studio became his home and his home became his studio and so, his life intertwined with his creativity.
The current exhibition is a retrospective on over a decade of Bijan Ra’faty’s works. The five collections that are gathered together in this exhibition were created between the years 2000 and 2012, the years of the artist’s icon presence. 
Epigraph is the oldest of his series and Icarus’s Dream the most recent one. In this exhibition we witness the different periods of Bijan’s creativity, among which Colosseum bears a closer resemblance to painting while Point Zero is of an inter-genre collection with completely different doctrine.
Collecting these works and displaying them in such a condition would not have been realized without Omid Tehrani’s efforts or the facilities, meticulousness and enthusiasm of Ariana Gallery: an unusual exhibition of a peculiar artist.
More About Tehran

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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