Parastou Forouhar

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Parastou Forouhar

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A cura di Lorenzo Benedetti

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La Fondazione Pastificio Cerere presenta per la prima volta il lavoro diun'artista tedesca-iraniana Parastou Forouhar, che attualmente vive elavora a Francoforte sul Meno e che stata nel 2006 borsista

all'Accademia Tedesca Villa Massimo di Roma.Il nuovo lavoro dell'artista basato su una animazione in cui figurestilizzate creano degli elementi geometrici e decorativi. L'opera di Forohuarcerca di indagare sull'ambivalenza del valore estetico celando dietro diesso elementi di comunicazione che mostranoatroci torture.Con il solito colore rosa su sfondo nero le immagini grafiche di Parastou

richiamano le decorazioni dei vasi greci e contemporaneamente unaforma assoluta di figura stilizzata. Questa forte sintesigrafica permette di inviare un messaggio quasi subliminale che fondel'aspetto estetico della forma con l'atroce comunicazione delsignificato. Una duplice struttura che riflette anche il lato dell'estetica della

catastrofe, parte integrante della cultura contemporanea espressa daimedia.

Contemporanea all'installazione l'artista presenta il progetto Analizing WhileWaiting (for time to pass) una rassegna video di 31 artisti iraniani con opinio-ni critiche. Questo progetto, realizzato insieme a Susann Wintsch, mostral'attenzione che l'artista ha per la comunit artistica di Terhan.

Tra le mostre principali ricordiamo nel 2001, 2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin;Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; nel 2003 M_ARS -Art and War,

The New Gallery Land Museum Joanneum,Graz, Austria Nel 2004 Far NearDistance, Centre of the World Cultures, Berlin; Gabriele Mnter Price, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; 4. Busan Biennal, Busan, korea; 3. Triennal of theContemprory Art Oberschwaben, Weingarten


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The Pastificio Cerere Foundation introduces for the first time a German-Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar; she currently lives and works in Germany

and has been in 2006 a scholarship at the Villa Massimo GermanAcademy in Rome.Her new work is a video with stylized figures that create some geometricand decorative ornaments. Forouhuar's work tries to investigate theambivalence of the aesthetical valuehiding in it communication elements which show atrocious tortures.Using a soft pink colour on a black material the pattern remind the

Greek vases ornaments and at the same time an absolute stylized shapeof figure. This strong synthesis enables to communicate an almost sublimi-nal message which combines the esthetic aspect of form with the atro-cious communication of meaning. There is also the aesthetic side ofcatastrophe, often expressed by contemporary culture media.

At the same time Parastou introduces the plan Analizing While Waiting

(for Time to pass), some video of 31 Iranians artists with critical statement.This plan, realized with Susann Wintsch, shows the artist's attention on the

artistic community of Terhan.

Parastou main exhibitions: in 2001, 2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin; FrankfurterKreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; in 2003 M_ARS -Art and War, The NewGallery Land Museum Joanneum,Graz, Austria. In 2004 Far NearDistance, Centre of the World Cultures, Berlin; Gabriele Mnter Price,Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; 4. Busan Biennal, Busan, korea; 3. Triennal ofthe Contemprory Art Oberschwaben, Weingarten.


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DVD MAGAZINE ON CONTEMPORARY ARTAnalysing While Waiting (For Time To Pass): Contemporary Art InTehran

Concept: Parastou Forouhar, Susann Wintsch

1 A Few Centimeters Above Sea-Level (Neda Razavipour /Shahab Fotouhi), Documentation of Installation, 2002, 2:292 A Generation Which Cannot Speak (Soghra Zare Anaghezi),

Statement, 2005,3 233Aboureyhan Selfportrait: Day And Night (JinoosTaghizadeh), Video (Excerpt), 2004, 7:524 Bodiless I (Mehraneh Atashi), Photographies, 2004, 1:405 Clothes For Gabriel (Behnam Kamrani), Video, 2006, 5:186 Coffee Shop Ladies (Amirali Ghasemi), Documentation ofInteractive Piece, 2004-05, 7:35

7 Cultural Shift: To Be Continued (Alireza Sami Azar), Statement,2006, 9:148 Depression (Rozita Sharaf Jahan), Video, 2004, 7:269 Have A Good Night (Shahrzad Darafsheh), Video, 2006, 3:5110 Ideologically Homeless (Haleh Anvari), Statement, 2006, 7:4711 In Quest Of Identity (Ruyin Pakbaz), Statement, 2006, 8:41

12 Living Room (Nazgol Ansarinia), Video, 2005, 6:0013 Mahmoud's Driving School (Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar),Drawings, 2006, 2:46


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14 Monologue Under White Light (Samira Eskandarfar), Video,2005, 10:5215 Orientalist, Terrorist, Occidentalist (Khosrow

Hassanzadeh),Statement, 2005, 2:3916 Port (Khosro Khosravi / Farid Jafari), Video, 2003, 6:2517 Sacrifice (Sadegh Tirafkan), Video, 2003, 4:1118 Spring Collection (Nina Ghaffari), Fashion Show, 2006, 2:1719 TehranAvenue And Popular Culture (Sohrab Mahdavi),Statement, 2006, 6:4620 Terrorist (Arash Hanaei), Drawings, 2006, 2:30

21 The Room (Hamed Sahihi), Video, 2006, 2:5822 The Upper Edge Of The Well (Simin Keramati), Video, 2002/03,4:4123 This Is The Story Of Our Past And Present (Iman Afsarian),Statement, 2006, 5:2824 Undistributed Packages (Mehran Mohajer), Photographies,2005, 2:2525 Untitled (Iman Afsarian), Paintings, 2003-06, 1:2526 Untitled (Ghazaleh Hedayat), Video, 2005, 6:3727 Untitled (Elahe Heidari), Paintings, 2005, 2:3728 Untitled (Ahmad Morshedlou), Paintings, 2005-06, 2:1929 What Film? (Samira Eskandarfar), Paintings, 2006, 0:5130 What Has Befallen Us, Barbard? (Barbard Golshiri), Video

(Excerpt), 2002, 5:4531 Waiting For Godot (Farhad Fozouni), Documentation ofChatroom-Performance, 2005, 4:51


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