Tarlan Rafiee Explained

Tarlan Rafiee
Native Name:طرلان رفیعی
Native Name Lang:fa
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
Nationality:Iranian
Occupation:Visual artist, curator
Known For:Painting, installation art, writer, curation of Iranian contemporary art
Spouse:Yashar Samimi Mofakham

Tarlan Rafiee (born 1980; Persian: طرلان رفیعی) is an Iranian visual artist, and curator.[1] [2] She is known for her international contributions to Iranian modern and contemporary art.

Career

Artwork

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,[3] as well as in Dubai,[4] [5] Austria,[6] 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;[7] "Iranian Voices" (2017), curated by Venetia Porter at the British Museum;[8] and "Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden" (2020–2021) at the Tyrolean State Museum, which she also co-curated.[9]

Rafiee's artworks are housed in international collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[10] British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum,[11] [12] Ducal Palace, Mantua,[13] and the Tyrolean State Museum.

Curator

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,[14] [15] 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. The same exhibition was invited to take place at the Castello del Monferrato in Casale Monferrato.[16] [17]

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.[18] 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. 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.[19] [20]

Curated exhibitions

Bibliography

By Rafiee

About Rafiee

References

  1. Book: Halasa, Malu . Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran . 2023-09-12 . Saqi Books . 978-0-86356-977-7 . 246 . en.
  2. Web site: Tarlan Rafiee . British Museum.
  3. Web site: 2018-05-11 . 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 . 2024-03-25 . . fa.
  4. Web site: 19 April 2014 . گل و بلبل به دبی رفت . Gul and Bulbul went to Dubai . 2024-03-25 . ایسنا (Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA) . fa.
  5. Web site: ایران . عصر . نمایش آثار تجسمی هنرمندان ایرانی در دبی . Exhibition of visual works of Iranian artists in Dubai . 2024-03-25 . Asriran.com . fa.
  6. Web site: October 15, 2020 . Undurchschaubarer Iran: Solace of Lovers im Ferdinandeum . Inscrutable Iran: “Solace of Lovers” in the Ferdinandeum . . de.
  7. Web site: Tarlan Rafiee's work at the V&A Museum . vam.ac.uk . 2013.
  8. Web site: Iranian Voices at the British Museum . Toos Foundation.
  9. Web site: Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden . Tiroler Landesmuseen . Tyrolean State Museum.
  10. Web site: Tarlan Rafiee . LACMA Collection.
  11. Web site: 2013 . Untitled From the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013 . Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection.
  12. Web site: 2013 . Untitled From the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013 . Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection.
  13. Book: Zurla . Michela . Catalogo delle nuove acquisizioni . L'Occaso . Stefano . 2012–2022 . Editoriale Sometti . 978-88-7495-863-4.
  14. Web site: 2018 . Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190201013512/https://www.mantovaducale.beniculturali.it/it/news/186-good-morning-good-night/ . 1 February 2019 . . Palazzo Ducale Complesso Mantova.
  15. Web site: Good morning... good night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran . https://web.archive.org/web/20240325073610/https://trasparenza.cultura.gov.it/archiviostorico/storico.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1998351363.html . 25 March 2024 . Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; MiBACT) . it.
  16. Web site: Artiste iraniane in Monferrato... da Mantova . Iranian Artists in Monferrato... from Mantua . Castelli Aperti . it.
  17. Web site: Il Monferrato > Dall'Iran al Castello . 2024-06-10 . www.ilmonferrato.it . it.
  18. Book: Museum Gestaltet Geschichte: 200 Jahre Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum . 2022-12-02 . Universitätsverlag Wagner in der Studienverlag Ges. m.b.H., Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriesgeschellschaft . 978-3-7030-6595-8 . 2065 . de . Google Books.
  19. Web site: Discussing Contemporary Iranian Art . 2024-03-25 . Asian Art in London . en-GB.
  20. Web site: Seaman . Anna . 2014-10-25 . Bowls, plates and tulips: artists remember Iran’s stolen youth . 2024-03-25 . . en . 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..
  21. Web site: Whalley . Stella . 2013-06-12 . London Calling Tehran . 2024-03-27 . bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk . en-GB.
  22. Web site: Barati . Parviz . گفت‌وگو با پرویز تناولی به مناسبت نمایشگاه «تناولی و ٥٠ سال هنر پاپ در ایران» . 2024-03-27 . The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia . fa.
  23. Web site: 2017-01-11 . Iran, Austria Cultural Exchange in Art Exhibit . https://web.archive.org/web/20170113165444/https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/57267/iran-austria-cultural-exchange-in-art-exhibit . 13 January 2017 . 2024-03-25 . Financial Tribune.
  24. Web site: Il Monferrato > Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall’Iran. The sequel . 2024-03-27 . www.ilmonferrato.it . it.
  25. Web site: 15 September 2019 . Iran Print Presents Four Iranian Modern Masters . 2024-03-25 . Islamic Arts Magazine . en.

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