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Paradise : The International Environmental Art Center
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Persian
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Our home is our Paradise
Since 1996 every year I received international artists who came to visit
our home, garden and artworks and we exchanged culture and art. I had
built up this communication via the internet. To me the internet is a
window through which I can see the world and I can be seen. I also use
internet as a ladder or bridge to meet people face to face.
For us Paradise means
an environment we created for working in nature with people and our
satisfaction. We enjoy the interaction with people rejoicing in
spiritual state in nature.
So far we received
many international artists from countries as interesting as Germany,
The Netherlands, UK, Lebanon, USA, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland,
Japan, Greece, Belgium.
The International
artists who came in summer time stayed in our little villa, and realized
their environmental art in the nature of Iran or collected material to
create art pieces in their homelands. They experienced living with
Iranian families, society, and traditional food.
In autumn and winter
we live in small apartment near the Tehran Museum of Contemporary arts,
and each year many international and local artists contact us to learn
about Paradise, and Iranian contemporary art. We organize festivals,
workshops, and art projects not only in the nature of different parts of
Iran but also in city environments. We create an arena and allow these
activities to have an international impact on the art scene. Our
paradise is place where global and Iranian artists meet and exchange
experiences.
In
the past 12 months we
received many international artists in our Paradise. In
spring of 2007 the Dutch
artists, Rolina Nell
and Paul Giesen traveled to Iran and
stayed for one month in my mother ‘s
home. The initial plan was
for both artists to do a residency at The Paradise Art
Center in Polour, but the winter was so long this year, they
ended up staying in
Tehran so
that Rolina might realize her art works in the city. I was invited l to
USA and couldn’t stay in Tehran leaving Rolina to work alone.
In
September 12th the Iraqi
artist, Mohamed Abdull
traveled to Iran and stayed in my home. In the past sixteen years he
lived in Netherlands and he couldn’t meet some of his family such as his
sister. The initial plan was to
visit his family who lived in Iraq and now they came to Iran. However
Mohamed stayed a month in Iran and he presented his installation and
performance in one of the Art faculties in
Tehran.
In
October 2007 Belgian
artist,
Jean Francois Pirson
traveled to Iran. During his stay he
expressed his relationship
to space through different practices (drawing, photography,
installations, writing and walking in urban and mountainous
environments. In the last few years, Jean-François Pirson combines his
travels and his walks with his exploratory practices of space and uses
photography as a medium to put in perspective parts of the world. When
I worked in the mountains around Tehran
Jean Francois Pirson accompanied me and
documented my works through photography and drawing.
In
December 2007 Bernhard Bub and Parisa Karimi from Germany contacted me
and they interested to see our paradise and learn more bout
environmental art in Iran. I invited them to participate our festivals
in Persian Gulf. They
are founder and member of Antagon group. They arrange workshops and work
with young artists. One night we reviewed their works and discussed
about theater and performance.
In
march 2008 we met German artist Gloria Zein and a free lance journalist.
They accompanied me and a young group of environmental artists and we
went to mountains region of north Tehran and we realized some projects
in nature. I used red earth and two students of philosophy assisted me
to realize a combination of performance and painting by red earth on
rock with their hands. The subject matter related to the story of eve.
The other student made a site specific installation. The German artist,
Gloria Zein relaze made some little installations too. The journalist,
named Cordula
Echterhoff , interviewed me
about the situation of environmental art in Iran and how we can have an
cultural exchange with west.
Since 1996, many International artists and visitors from Germany, UK,
Netherlands, Lebanon and France have come here to view River Installation
and carved stones in Paradise garden.
In addition, everyday thousands of people visit WW.RiverArt.Net.
Gottfried Junker (Germany)
Nadin
Reschke Kindlimann
from Germany
Daniel
Kindlimann
from Switzerland and Behzad Nadalian in Poloor
Lynette Wallworth From
Australia
Fergus
Meiklejohn from Uk
Mr. Coen de Jong
from Netherlands
Mrs.
Jong
from Netherlands
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