48 WALKER ST 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in (JCG11744), Installation view: Sunset, Sunrise, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, October 12 - December 28, 2019, Image courtesy of the artist, The Third Line, Dubai, and James Cohan, New York, Reverse painted glass, mirror, plaster and wood, Photo: Filipe Braga, © Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with IMMA, presents Sunset, Sunrise, a retrospective exhibition of works by the late artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Your own appearance, your own face, your own clothing—if you move, it is a part of the art. The Islamic Revolution in 1979 marked the beginning of Monir’s 26-year exile in New York. During this time she was introduced to Āina-kāri, the 16th-century Safavid practice of cutting mirrors into small pieces and arranging them into decorative shapes over plaster. 291 GRAND ST Over the course of a life marked by migration and revolution, she blended tradition with permutations in the avant-garde to create a cohesive and widely varied body of work that is uniquely her own. Image Reproductions & Copyright 74 x 151 cm It was this event that provided a crucial turning point in Farmanfarmaian’s artistic journey. Mirror on plaster and wood Monir strove to mix Iranian influences into her works, particularly the tradition of Ayeneh Kari, the art of cutting mirrors into small pieces and placing them Her work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; the Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Monir Museum, Negarestan Museum Park Gardens, Tehran, Iran; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, Tehran, Iran; Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran; Queensland Gallery of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran; Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom. NEW YORK NY 10013 Mirror Works and Drawings 1974–2014" at Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015) Mirror work on plaster ball 22,5 x 23 x 23 cm. Collection of the artist. View Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s artworks on artnet. Reverse painted glass, mirrored glass, and plaster It combines the rich patterns and geometry found in the folk art heritage of her native Iran with the modern abstract art of the New York City avant garde. 83 × 117 × 117 cm Fifth Family Triangle 1, 2013 This new series continues to explore the variable arrangement of geometric figures, this time with an emphasis on the physical movement of the shapes. (JCG11724), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Reverse painted glass, mirrored glass, and plaster The first museum retrospective of her work, curated by Suzanne Cotter, was on view at the Serralves Museum … Mirror Works and Drawings, 1974-2014, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2014), which travelled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2015); and Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2017); Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Convertibles and Polygons, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2013); Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Mirror Mosaics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (2007). Reflection Five, 2010 (JCG11848), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 19 3/4 x 25 5/8 in As curator Suzanne Cotter describes, each of Monir’s new sculptures “carries a history of the sculptures and drawings that have preceded it. Through her studies abroad, she combined traditional Iranian techniques with Western geometric abstraction to create … Farmanfarmaian's creative practice is imbued with the aesthetics of her Iranian culture. (JCG11731), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 29 1/8 x 59 1/2 in (JCG11746), Mirror, reverse-glass painting, plaster on wood. 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in The gallery will present a two-part solo exhibition of Monir’s work in January 2021. Reverse painted glass, mirrored glass, and plaster One of Iran’s most iconic artists, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian died in Tehran on April 20, at the age of 97. The work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. Qazvin, Iran, 1924 - d. 2019) has been exhibited internationally beginning in the 1960’s. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Mirror Ball, 1973. Monir explained: “With the reflections, you’re also a part of the art piece. During this period characterized by distance, the artist's ongoing drawing practice played an increasingly critical role in reinforcing a vital sense of continuity and connection to her homeland. 51 x 35.5 cm 's board "Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian", followed by 138 people on Pinterest. (JCG11726), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN How does this artwork make you feel?Take a photo and let us know #goma10farmanfarmaian @qagoma. Monir Farmanfarmaian, Birds of Paradise, 2008 The most poignant piece in the show is by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who is 88 years old and lives in Iran. Muqarnas One, 2012 Mirror and reverse glass painting on plaster and wood Inspired by a formative visit to the mirror mosaics of Shah Cheragh mosque in Shiraz, Iran, her visually seductive wall-based and freestanding sculptures draw from the mathematical, corporeal, and mystical principles of Sufi architecture as much as they are informed by the conceptual underpinnings of 20th century abstraction. Her methodologies often invoke concepts central to Minimalism—such as seriality, modularity, and diagrammatic organization—manifesting in bodies of sculpture grouped into series she called “families,” suggesting an affinity of structure, for example, or which are “convertible,” consisting of elements that can be arranged into a number of different formations. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / QAGOMA Photography / © The artist. See more ideas about mirror art, art, artist. 112 x 112 cm Monir Farmanfarmaian, née Monir Shahroudy, (born January 13, 1923, Qazvin, Iran—died April 20, 2019, Tehrān), Iranian artist who was known for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings that bore witness to her cosmopolitan perspective, informed by a life journey that encompassed Persian culture and the Western art world. Layering these contemporary ideas with an Islamic integration of mathematics with bodily presence and spirituality, her work reconnected abstraction with its theological roots to invite sublime perceptual experience grounded in the body of the viewer. 110 x 121 cm Third Family Hexagon, 2011 According to Monir, the six-sided hexagon, for example, “reflects the six virtues: generosity, self-discipline, patience, determination, insight, and compassion.” The distinctive features of shapes used in each work precondition specific repetitive geometries that span outward to the edges of the object, serving to create a transcendent, ephemeral effect within the larger structure. 20 1/8 x 14 in 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who achieved renown late in life for her dazzling mirrored mosaic works and glass paintings, has died at age 97. Queensland 4101, Australia 32 7/10 × 46 1/10 × 46 1/10 in Installation view of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. 135 x 135 cm JAMES COHAN Free Wi-Fi available, Compliments & Complaints Fourth Family Octagon, 2013 In 2017, the Monir Museum was inaugurated under the auspices of Tehran University. Drawing was an integral throughline in Monir’s wide-ranging practice, providing a means for exercising spatial thinking through experimentation with geometric structure. Farmanfarmaian was born in Qazvin, Iran in 1924. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian at the Orangerie, Vienna, in 2009, photo by Bernhard Benke. 107 x 121 cm The art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian reflects a life lived between two cultures. (JCG11730), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 120 x 120 cm (JCG11728), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Third Family Nonagon, 2011 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in Untitled Maze, 2015 Mirror and reverse glass painting on plaster and wood Following the death of her husband in 1991, while still in exile, she also created sculptural memory boxes referred to as Heartaches, filled with family photographs and other personal ephemera. Edition 2 of 2 (JCG11752), Image courtesy of the artist, Haines Gallery, and James Cohan, New York, MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN NEW YORK NY 10002 Reverse painted glass, mirrored glass, and plaster 119 x 137 cm Variation on a Hexagon 10, 1976 Mirror and reverse-glass painting on plaster and wood Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, better known simply as Monir, has long believed in the transcendental possibilities of mirrors. TEL 212.714.9500   18 7/8 x 31 7/8 in Over six decades, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922 - 2019) investigated the intricate geometries of her Iranian heritage, reconfiguring traditional craft techniques to explore the philosophical, poetic, and perceptual possibilities of interlocking primary forms. Gallery Maps Dissecting and reassembling the traditional surface construction of the mirror-mosaic, each of her works is anchored by central polygons, whose numeric properties have symbolic meanings in Islamic design and Sufism. 45 5/8 x 46 7/8 in In her work, rigorous structure and repetition are the foundations of invention and limitless variation. TUE - SAT, 10-6INFO@JAMESCOHAN.COM, Lower East Side Fourth Family Hexagon, 2013 Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922-2019) was a contemporary, Iranian artist who became a living legend while she was still alive. Written by By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Prominent contemporary Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian died at age 97 in her home in Tehran due to natural causes on … Monir Shahroudy, as she was born, was raised in the northern Iranian city of Qazvin among peach, almond and walnut trees. (JCG11732), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 45 1/4 x 47 5/8 in Mirror on plaster and wood (JCG11727), MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 81 x 114 cm MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN In Lightning for Neda over 4000 mirror shards in each panel activate myriad patterns. T: +61 (0)7 3840 7303 Reverse painted glass, mirrored glass, and plaster Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices. 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