Archive for category: Selected Artists

 1931- 2016

B.A. in Painting from the School of Fine Arts, Tehran University

Lectures and Seminars:
1988 -Lecture on contemporary Iranian painting at the University of California, Berkley, USA
1978- Participation in the seminar entitled Education Through Art at the University of Adelaide, Australia
1960 -Participation in a seminar on the preparation and production of textbooks and a period of training at the Denrow Studio on book illustration, New York, USA

Other Activities:

1970- Participating in a course on the teaching of art to children at the Junior Art Center, California, USA
Since 1980, publication of a number of articles on art and artists in Iran, in various Tehran periodicals
1968-1978 Director of art education at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and young Adults, Tehran, Iran
Since 1960, teaching painting at the School of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran

Solo Exhibitions:

1992-Pariz Art Gallery, Rafsenjan, Kerman
1991- Classic Art Gallery, Isfahan
1991-Houriyan Gallery, SanFrancisco,California
1990-Ketab Sara Galllery,Tehran
1987-Ketab Sara Art Gallery, Tehran
1975-Seyhun Gallery, Tehran
1973- Kerman Art Museum, Kerman
1972-Seyhun Gallery, Tehran
1970- School of Fine Arts, Tehran University
1961- School of Fine Arts, Tehran University

Group Exhibitions:

2001- Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Art, London
2000- Exhibition at Aztec Gallery, Madrid
1999- Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Art, in Cooperation With the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, London, Bern, Geneva
1999- The First Biennial Exhibition of Drawing, Tehran
1998- Exhibition at the UN Building, New York
1997- The Fourth Biennial Art Exhibition, Tehran
1997- MK2 Exhibition, Paris, France
1996- Exhibition, California, USA
1995- The Third Biennial of Art Exhibition, Tehran
1993- The Second Biennial of Art Exhibition, Tehran
1993-LalitCala Exhibition, New Delhi
1991-Taijan Expo, South Korea
1988- Wagner Gallery, Ditzenbach, Germany
1983- Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, California
1977- Iranian Section, Wash Art Exhibition, Washington D.C.
1976- Iranian Section, International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1976- Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Art, Iran-America Society, Tehran
1974- Exhibition Marking Qandriz Gallery’s 100th Show, Tehran
1974- Exhibition Commemorating Tehran Asian Games, Tehran
1970- Exhibition Entitled ” 25 Years of Contemporary Iranian Art”, Tehran
1967- Exhibition of Modern Iranian Art, Columbia University, New York

Born in 1980, Tehran-Iran

Education:

1999-2003 B.A. in Painting

2003 M.A. in Painting

2003 Graduate from Iranian young film maker society

Solo Exhibitions:

2009 Marcopolo, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2008 Underground, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2007 The Dispersion, Maah art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Dreamer, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Other Faces, Laleh art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2005 Book readers, Day art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2004 Dreams & memories, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2003 Remains the day, Laleh art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2003 Amazement, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2002 ‘Untitled’, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2001 ‘Untitled’, Elahe art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2000 ‘Untitled’, Elahe art gallery, Tehran, Iran

1999 ‘Untitled’, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran

1998 ‘Untitled’, Elahe art gallery, Tehran, Iran

1997 ‘Untitled’, Afrand art gallery, Tehran, Iran

Screenings:

2009 Inside Teheran out, Forum Schlossplatz, Switzerland

2009 International Festival for alternative film & video, Denmark & Finland

2008 Guangzhou triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, China

2007 Retracing territories, Friart gallery, Fribourg, Switzerland

2007 Analyze while waiting (Triebsand), Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2007 Caravan, Shiraz art gallery, Venice, Italy

2007 Limited access, Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

Selected other Exhibitions:

2008 The 1st Intl. Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Aria gallery, Tehran, Iran

2008 Saba cultural center, Tehran, Iran

2007 Kaakh sa’d aabaad (Iranian painter society), Iran

2007 Radical Drawing, Tehran gallery, Iran

2007 Isfahan museum of contemporary art, Isfahan, Iran

2007 Silk Road art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2007 Wishes & Dreams, Meridian Intl. center, Washington D.C., USA

2007 Maah art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2007 Auto portrait, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran

2007 All of my Mothers, Bahman cultural center, Tehran, Iran

2006 Kurdish painter, Saba cultural center, Tehran, Iran

2006 Laleh art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Azad art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006 Isfahan museum of contemporary art, Isfahan, Iran

2006 Day art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2005 The opening of Day art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2004 The 6th Tehran Painting Biennial, MOCA, Tehran, Iran

2003 Laleh art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2002 Bahman cultural center, Tehran, Iran

2002 Niavaran art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2000 Elahe art gallery, Tehran, Iran

2000 The 5th Tehran Painting Biennial, MOCA, Tehran, Iran

2000 The 2nd Tehran Drawing Biennial, MOCA, Tehran, Iran

1997 Afrand art gallery, Tehran, Iran

Education:

Painting, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, 1976

BFA, Painting &Design, Chelsea School, London, 1974

Painting, Sir John Cass Art School, London, 1969

Painting, St.Martin’s school of Art, London, 1968

Academic Career:

Lecturer, Al Zahra University, Tehran

Lecturer, Iran Art University, Tehran

Lecturer, Azad Islamic University, Tehran

Lecturer, Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran

Research:

The influence of Sassanid patterns on Kimono through the Silk Road, Japan, 1996

Saffavid tiles in Isfahan , Chelsea school of Fine Arts , England, 1974

Exhibitions:

A number of solo & goup exhibition in:

England, Germany, Japan, Kazakhistan , Kirghizestan , Kuwait ,Saudi Arabia , USA, Uzbekista and

Iran.

1928 Tehran- 2011 Paris

A stranger in his own birthplace, Nasser Assar is a well-known painter in the Western world. He was initiated to painting by Ali Mohammad Heydarian, a follower of Kamal-ol-Molk when still quite young. This is when his father had already instilled a deep love of Persian literature and poetry into him. On entering the department of Fine Arts of Tehran University (1950-53), like nearly all other intellectuals of his generation and particularly under the influence of his friendship with Manouchehr Yektai and Mehri Rakhsha, the overwhelming wave of modernism mesmerized him put behind Heydarian’s teaching altogether. After graduation in 1953, he first went to Hamburg and a few months later to Paris where he lived to the end of his life, paying only short visits to Iran to see his father in 70s.

He held his first solo exhibition at Pirmes Gallery in Paris (1955) introduced by Julian Alvard. In 1958 an exhibition of Chinese painters shocks him in a determining way, bringing about a turning point in his artistic creation. In 1961 Assar participated in a group exhibition called Antagonism focusing on the liberation of culture, organized by the committee of arts led by Alvard at the Museum of Decorative Art and introduced by Herbert Read. Later in the same year, he held his first solo exhibition at Lincoln Gallery when he met and befriended Francis Bacon. The text of the catalogue is by Herbert Read again.

Calligraphy as a characteristic feature of his style appeared first in his second solo exhibition held at Smith Gallery in Brussels (1964), introduced by art editor, critic Gerald Gassiot Talabot who invented the term Figurative narrative aptly applicable to Assar’s works.

In 1966 he held his second solo exhibition at London, married Isabel Gasstines whose series of portraits which Assar drew from 1967 to 1979 was called “icons” by Roger Munier, philosopher, essayist and translator, while Yves Bonnefoy, the poet described them as approaching Byzantine painting, Roman frescos and Giacometti’s paintings.

In 1972 during a trip to Iran he met Henry Corbin, Iranologist in Tehran with their friendship lasting to the end of Corbin’s life. In 1982 he becomes a French citizen.

From 1991 to 2004 he produced a series of lithographs for a number of books by famous French literary figures. In 2001 the literary review Nue dedicated a special issue to Assar and his lifelong friend Yves Bonnefoy.

Nasser Assar’s Trees was showcased in 2007 at Lambert Rouland Gallery at Paris and in 2009 Christophe Gillard Gallery held a review of his works since 1950. The catalogue was written by art critic Remi Labrusse and Alain Madeleine-Perdirillat the poet.

Assar’s prose-paintings intimately associates his intimate friend Sohrab Sepehri, with only this major difference that Assar discovered and internalized Far East from the West, while Sepehri reached it from the East.

Alienated from Iran and Iranians, the contemporary painter Nasser Assar died on July 28 in France. Despite his significant presence among French and western artists, intellectuals and poets and his friendship with remarkable people of those lands, it is strange that his demise went by in silence with very little reverberation in media and press.

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