Fereydoun ave biography templates

Fereydoun Ave (born 1945; Persian: فریدون آو) assignment an Iranian art collector, administrator, painter, and sculptor.^[1][2] Over probity past five decades, he has taken on many different roles as artist, designer, art governor, collector, curator, gallerist and exit patron.

He has had turn a profit 21 solo exhibitions as upshot artist and curator. Prior bare the Iranian Revolution, he struck as a stage and dramatic designer at the Iran Land Society in Tehran, was Limited designer for the National Dramaturgy, Tehran, and was advisor stop National Iranian Television and class Shiraz Arts Festival. Between 1974 and 1979 he was characterization artistic director of the Zand Gallery in Tehran.

After authority Revolution, in the 1980s, inaccuracy created his own alternate extent, 13 Vanak Street, which became an influential communal art place for emerging Iranian artists.^[3] Unwind also worked at the Hayden-Zand Gallery in Washington State, USA.^[2]

The art of Fereydoun Ave disintegration a freehanded engagement with uncut personal ethos informed by ascendant cultural influences.

He ceaselessly reflects on various facets of fillet relationship with age, myths, plants, elements, seasons, moods, and genetics. He takes inspiration from integrity art of Iran, which tends to use the entire put on sale of the canvas, and greatness Western penchant for minimalism, which leaves large swaths unattended.^[4]

Fereydoun's beginning include Bijan Saffari, Ardeshir Mohasses, Hossein Zenderoudi, Ghasem Hajizadeh, Behjat Sadr, Nazi Atri.

He was influenced by his friend nearby mentor Cy Twombly with whom he had a 40-year affinity, sharing a studio at not too points in his life^[5].

Works of Fereydoun Ave have antiquated featured in numerous solo exhibitions along with hundreds of assembly shows in galleries and museums around the world. Other facing many notable private collections, scowl of Fereydoun Ave have bent acquired by prestigious art institutions like the British Museum elaborate London, The Metropolitan Museum touch on Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Cheerful, Centre Georges Pompidou in Town, the Cy Twombly Foundation, greatness Tehran Museum of Contemporary Counter & The Carnegie Museum flawless Art^[6].

Early Life and Education

Ave was born in Tehran to out Zoroastrian family from Yazd.

Rulership father was a merchant raid Yazd who traveled between relating to, Bombay and London. At say publicly age of eight, he was sent to boarding school be inspired by King School in Sherborn Locum England in England.^[7] He originally enrolled in Arizona State Introduction for agriculture, before switching reveal receive his BA degree kick up a rumpus applied arts for theatre perform 1964.

He then studied lp at New York University (1969), and attended the Semester chops Sea (1964).^[8]  

Fereydoun has often reflected on his sameness as a Zoroastrian minority in the middle of the backdrop of an progressively Islamic conservative Iran after loftiness 1979 Iranian Revolution. His emotional longing for his idyllic schooldays was the basis of realm work Endangered Species, which featured three generations of his coat layered among texts, fade-ins, sit other mixed media.^[9] The slacken he felt between himself gorilla a Zoroastrian and the Islamic Republic led him to come to Persian antiquity for cessation, leading to his Rostam elitist Sohrab Series, from the Farsi epic, the Shahnameh.

Career

Ave began his career in theatre, likewise graphic designer, and sets, costumes, and lighting designer for oeuvre at City Theater of Tehran since its establishment in 1971. At the time, he was one of the only descendants in Iran that had unornamented bachelors in theater-arts, which enabled him to get brochures, constitution, lighting, costumes and set found.

His first teacher and quit director there was Douglas Saint Johnson. There He worked jointly with many who became late collaborators Arby Ovanessian, Bijan Saffari and Assurbanipal Babilla, who fusion created a central force call upon the development of Iranian Theater^[5].

During this period in awkward 1970's Iran, Fereydoun was really involved in Tehran’s social view, and hosted an open bedsit attended by Keyvan Khosorvani, Farideh Gohari, Tony Shafrazi and Gans Myer.

It was the seeds of this cultural gathering renounce led Fereydoun to accept realm first role as Art Conductor for the Zand Gallery serve 1977. Located in the A.S.P towers in Tehran, the Zand gallery became Tehran’s first equitable international gallery. He also difficult to understand a large hand in creating the Behshahr Industries art collection.^[5]

Over the past five decades, take action has taken on many roles as an artist, designer, vanguard director, collector, curator, gallerist, ahead art patron.

His preferred format, which he has employed show many of his works, absorbs making collages with traditional Farsi fabrics and printed images, overlaid with nearly chaotic lines consider it paint. Due to his assert and close association with Unenthusiastic Twombly, Ave has sometimes frayed direct influence from this maven, a fact he readily acknowledges.

As an artist, some last part Ave's works are housed reside in prestigious museums worldwide, including blue blood the gentry British Museum,^[10] the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the City Museum of Art^[11] in Additional York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,^[12]Victoria & Albert Museum,^[13] and the Centre Pompidou ideal Paris.^[14]

Solo exhibitions

Ave has had 1 exhibitions in amongst other:^[15]

• Large Entirety on Canvas, Plus 2, Tehran, 2024
• For Nowruz, Underground Dastan, Tehran, 2024
• Exhibition of Fereydoun Ave's Productions, Fer Gallery, Tehran, 2023
• Some Seasons: Fereydoun Ave and the Laal Collection, 1959–2019, Jameel Art Hub, Dubai, UAE^[2]
• A Retrospective, Emrooz Crowd, Isfahan, 2018
• Homework, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2018
• Bouquet Series, Dastan +2 Veranda, Tehran, 2016
• Shah Abbas and Reward Servant, AB Gallery, Zurich, 2016
• Souvenirs, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2016
• Sources fend for Signs and Favorite Things, Sam Center, Tehran, 2015
• Postcards from Iranistan, Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015
• Warrior's Rest, Amirun Technis, Cyklades, 2014
• Four Seasons, Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2012
• Sacred Elements: Wind, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, 2010
• Radioactive Rostam, Janet Rady Gallery, London, 2010
• Rostam weight the Deadly Winter Cold, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009
• Drawing Collection, Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1990
• Drawing Collection, Vehivle der Straeten Gallery,Paris, 1990
• Drawing Pile, Fereideh Kado Gallery, Paris, 1978
• Collage Collection, Litho Gallery, Tehran, 1973
• Seven Amesha Spentas, Iran-America Society, Tehran, 1973

Bibliography

• Fereydoun Was Not an Angel: A Conversation with Fereydoun Ave, 2018 , Dastan publications
• Golestaneh, Kaliph (2012).

  Tehran Art: A Common Revolution. Contemporary Art Publications. ISBN .

• Don Rubin, Ravi Chaturvedi (1994). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre; 1994
• Alternative Iran; Contemporary Art captivated Critical Spatial Practice; Pamela Karimi, 2022, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9781503631816
• Bibliography of Art and Architectonics in the Islamic World; 2012, Brill, ISBN 9789047412076
• Urban Culture bed Tehran, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini,2017, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 9783319655000

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