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Tarlan Rafiee

Tarlan Rafiee (born 1980; Persian: طرلان رفیعی) is an Iranian visual artist, and curator.[3][1] She is known for her international contributions to Iranian modern and contemporary art.

Tarlan Rafiee
طرلان رفیعی
Born1980 (age 43–44)[1]
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupation(s)Visual artist, curator
Known forPainting, installation art, writer, curation of Iranian contemporary art
SpouseYashar Samimi Mofakham[2]

Career

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Artwork

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Rafiee embarked on her career as an artist in 2001, when she participated in a group exhibition in Tehran. Since then, she has exhibited her work in several group exhibitions exhibitions across Iran,[4] as well as in Dubai,[5][6] Austria,[7] France, Italy, the United States of America, Denmark, and Armenia.

Her notable exhibition including "Cars: Accelerating the Modern World" (2013) at the Victoria & Albert Museum;[8] "Iranian Voices" (2017), curated by Venetia Porter at the British Museum;[9] and "Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden" (2020–2021) at the Tyrolean State Museum, which she also co-curated.[10]

Rafiee's artworks are housed in international collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[11] British Museum,[1] the Victoria & Albert Museum,[12][13] Ducal Palace, Mantua,[14] and the Tyrolean State Museum.

Curator

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Rafiee initiated her curatorial career with the "Calling Project" in 2013, facilitating an exchange exhibition between British and Iranian artists. Since then, she has curated numerous exhibitions in Iran, Dubai, Austria, and Italy.

Notable among her projects is, "Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran" held at the Ducal Palace, Mantua,[15][16] where she served as both curator, and wrote of the accompanying exhibition book. It exhibited works from noted Iranian female artists, including Parvaneh Etemadi, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, and Rozita Sharafjahan.[16] The same exhibition was invited to take place at the Castello del Monferrato in Casale Monferrato.[17][18]

Another exhibition in her career is "Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden" (2020–2021), a collaborative curation effort with her spouse Yashar Samimi Mofakham, and the state museum director Peter Assmann, for the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck, Austria.[7][19] In this exhibitions they presented the historical collection of Albert Joseph Gasteiger of Qajar art, as well as Iranian masters including Parviz Tanavoli, Jazeh Tabatabai, Reza Bangiz, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, Mazdak Ayari, and Khosrow Sinai.[7][19] Rafiee co-curated the exhibition, and co-authored the 2020 exhibition book under the same title.

In 2008, she co-founded Bread & Salt Projects, a curatorial project as well as an extended archive and collection of Iranian Modern and Contemporary art in order to preserve the documents of the Iranian modern and contemporary art.

Rafiee has been invited to give lectures or participate in panel discussions about the Iranian modern and contemporary art by the British Museum, Iran Heritage Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She often has worked alongside her spouse Yashar Samimi Mofakham.[20][2]

Curated exhibitions

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  • Selfdom / a personal project, 2011, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Tehran, Iran[citation needed]
  • Tehran Calling: London, 2013, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, LPS, London, UK[21]
  • Parviz Tanavoli’s Exercise Writing: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran[22]
  • Parviz Tanavoli’s Universal Icons: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, With Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran[22]
  • RTL:LTR, an exchange exhibition between Iran and Austria (right to left, left to right), with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Peter Assmann, and CO:K; traveling exhibit to Galerie Forum in Wels, Austria, 2016; Artmark Galerie in Wien, Austria, 2016; the Lajevardi Foundation, in Tehran, Iran, 2016; and Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, in Iran, 2016–2017[23]
  • Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Castello Di Moferrato, Casale Monferrato, Italy[24]
  • Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Mantova, Italy[16]
  • IRAN Print -01, 2019, Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE[25]
  • Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden, 2020–2021, Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck, Austria[7]

Bibliography

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By Rafiee

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  • Rafiee, Tarlan (2018). Good morning... Good night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice, Italy, Tre Lune Edizioni, ISBN 9788889832813.
  • Mofakham, Yashar Samimi; Rafiee, Tarlan; Assmann, Peter; Pereña, Helena (2020). Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden. Innsbruck, Austria: Haymon Verlag, Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. ISBN 978-3-7099-8119-1.

About Rafiee

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  • Golestaneh, Ali (2012). Tehran Art: A Popular Revolution. Contemporary Art Publications. ISBN 9789948164746.
  • Noyce, Richard (2014). Printmaking Off the Beaten Track. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. ISBN 978-1408156728.
  • Porter, Venetia (2016). Iranian Voices Catalogue. British Museum.
  • Porter, Venetia; Tripp, Charles; Morris, Natasha (2020). Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. British Museum. ISBN 978-0714111957.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Tarlan Rafiee". British Museum.
  2. ^ a b Seaman, Anna (2014-10-25). "Bowls, plates and tulips: artists remember Iran's stolen youth". The National. Retrieved 2024-03-25. The artwork, Untitled 2014, is part of a group show from husband and wife team Yashar Samimi Mofakham and Tarlan Rafiee, Tehran-based artists who have created separate pieces for the show, but whose practice is very much interlinked.
  3. ^ Halasa, Malu (2023-09-12). Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran. Saqi Books. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-86356-977-7.
  4. ^ "جزییات فروش ۵۰ اثر از بزرگان نقاشی و نقاشی‌خط در آرتیبیشن" [Details of the sale of 50 works by the masters of painting and calligraphy in arbitration]. خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  5. ^ "گل و بلبل به دبی رفت" [Gul and Bulbul went to Dubai]. ایسنا (Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA) (in Persian). 19 April 2014. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  6. ^ ایران, عصر. "نمایش آثار تجسمی هنرمندان ایرانی در دبی" [Exhibition of visual works of Iranian artists in Dubai]. Asriran.com (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  7. ^ a b c d "Undurchschaubarer Iran: Solace of Lovers im Ferdinandeum" [Inscrutable Iran: “Solace of Lovers” in the Ferdinandeum]. Tiroler Tageszeitung (in German). October 15, 2020.
  8. ^ "Tarlan Rafiee's work at the V&A Museum". vam.ac.uk. 2013.
  9. ^ "Iranian Voices at the British Museum". Toos Foundation.
  10. ^ "Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden". Tiroler Landesmuseen. Tyrolean State Museum.
  11. ^ "Tarlan Rafiee". LACMA Collection.
  12. ^ "Untitled From the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013". Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection. 2013.
  13. ^ "Untitled From the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013". Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection. 2013.
  14. ^ Zurla, Michela; L'Occaso, Stefano (2012–2022). Catalogo delle nuove acquisizioni. Editoriale Sometti. ISBN 978-88-7495-863-4.
  15. ^ "Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran". Museum Complex of the Doge's Palace. Palazzo Ducale Complesso Mantova. 2018. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019.
  16. ^ a b c "Good morning... good night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran". Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; MiBACT) (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Artiste iraniane in Monferrato... da Mantova" [Iranian Artists in Monferrato... from Mantua]. Castelli Aperti (in Italian).
  18. ^ "Il Monferrato > Dall'Iran al Castello". www.ilmonferrato.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  19. ^ a b Museum Gestaltet Geschichte: 200 Jahre Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (in German). Universitätsverlag Wagner in der Studienverlag Ges. m.b.H., Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriesgeschellschaft. 2022-12-02. p. 2065. ISBN 978-3-7030-6595-8 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ "Discussing Contemporary Iranian Art". Asian Art in London. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  21. ^ Whalley, Stella (2013-06-12). "London Calling Tehran". bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  22. ^ a b Barati, Parviz. "گفت‌وگو با پرویز تناولی به مناسبت نمایشگاه «تناولی و ٥٠ سال هنر پاپ در ایران»". The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  23. ^ "Iran, Austria Cultural Exchange in Art Exhibit". Financial Tribune. 2017-01-11. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  24. ^ "Il Monferrato > Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran. The sequel". www.ilmonferrato.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  25. ^ "Iran Print Presents Four Iranian Modern Masters". Islamic Arts Magazine. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
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