Collaboration

Iced book is a project done by Basia Irland and she had this as a collaboration with Iranian artists during the 30th environmental Art Festival, Shoushtar

Tara goodarzy and Nooshin Naficy made these book

This is another piece by Mary Ellen Long which was done by Tara in Shoshtar, Iran

All photos by Shahrnaz Zarkesh

Carpet

The 30th Environmental Art Festival

This time "Carpet" is made out of palm leaves in Shoushtar. Iran

Oneday workshop in UC Davis, California

Arts festival offers GATEways preview

"Quilt" is an art work by Persian New Art Group, that this time was done by the help of Robin Hill's students

One of a member of the group (Minoosh)collaborated with students to create another version of this piece.
All materials were collected at Arboretum,where this event was running.



Students of Hearne Pardee, another associate professor of art, are practicing plain air painting — with the art installation as their subject.



Photos By Minoosh Zomorodinia

Ann Savague documented Minoosh while designing the patch works


After two weeks
photo by Carmia Feldman

After a month, photo by Ann Savageau

Pile of Pollution

Another Festival in Iran this time in Kotena village

Photos by Shahrnaz Zarkesh

We were impressed by too many rubbish stocked in the river.By the time we got there it made us to create another version of "Pile of Pollution"
We decided to ask people to collect their garbage to make a sculpture out of rubbish
We wanted to point out the pollution in this area. Garages were saving for two days.
Hoping that this installation could give people to pay attention to their polluted area

Seventy Thousand Curtains

Seventy Thousand Curtains Collaborative Work by new Art Group

In ascension to heaven, in infinite space, prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) finds seventy thousand curtains made up of light, rubies, ringlets, pearls and gold. Each one of curtains are guarded by seven sets of angle like creatures

Prophet goes through these seventy thousand curtains accompanied by guidance angles and finds up heaven ornamented by scarlet ringlets (Book of Ascension by Mary Rose Segay

When he arrived in seventh sky, he saw veils of light, in the brightness world of which reached the climax of intuition and closeness to God (reverence for God). (Tafsir Nemoneh by Naser Makarem Shirazi, Volume twenty two

Beautiful landscapes and colorful hills of Hormoz Island depicts and image of paradise. New Art Group performed a scene from Book of Ascention related to Herat era by cooperation of Hormoz Ministry of Education and Guidance with seventy girls students of Hajar Secondary School

Girls wore nice costumes and kept their colored veils(Chadoor) in front of their face as a sign of curtain in each performance. Each of them was angles behind curtains

Seventy Thousand Curtains

Regarding the short time we had for this performance, coordination with heads of school was required, that we were not deprived of. We are grateful to them. Atefeh, Shahrnaz ,Tara, Mahmood, Saman Lotfian and Atefeh Motehayer Arani made efforts together to work out

play with Fire

We arranged a musical performance with twenty Atash Gardan ( a device for rotating fiery coal) prepared by the assistance of presents artists and Mr. Darya Peima (familiar with music and performance). At the end, we gifted Atash Gardan to our friends. We, Mahmood, Sharhrnaz, Tara, Minoosh Zahra, performed it for the first time in Tehran with four Atash Gardan on the last Wednesday befor Nowrooz (Charshanbe Soori) and later in different places in different forms.

Mahmoud Maktabi

Atefe Khas

Tara Goodarzi

Stone "by Tara Goodarzi"

As a sleep by tara Goodarzi

A flower for cliffs by Tara and Atefe

Wig by Atefeh

Wig by Atefeh

Gift by Tara & Atefe

All photos by Shahrnaz zarkesh

Other photos could be seen in this link

http://iraniannewart.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html

Salt Lake

Salt Lake

24th Environmental Art Festival was held in Tabriz and Oromieh cities in September 2010 so that artists could display their newest works along Salt Lake. Two first days of the festival were for work in the shore of Oromieh Lake and the last day for the meeting of participant artists and local artists of Oromieh and Tabriz in the city of Tabriz. An extensive area of the lake has been dried, that’s why you need to walk some kilometers on a dry bed cracked like desert to reach water.

Mahmoud Maktabi

Shahrnaz Zarkesh

Shahrnaz Zarkesh

Shahrnaz Zarkesh & Mahmoud Maktabi

Iranian Garden
Mahmoud Maktabi

Tara & Atefeh

Felamingo by

Mahmoud Maktabi & Atefeh Khas

Tara Goudarzi

Hair By Atefeh

Pari By TARA

Reflection By Atefeh

Gate of Hell By New art Group

كار گروهي - ميان حلقه آتش

Group Art Work

Mahmoud Maktabi

Work 3549

Work 3549 is one of our symbolic group presentation done in Oromieh Lake. Destruction of environment and inattention to this issue like any other disorder dominant every part of the country had caused Oromieh big lake, perhaps the most important natural attraction of Oromieh, to dry. It could be understood from dullness of homes and other places of “Chi Chest”. 3549 was a symbol of this drought. We took 3549 steps from residence to water; a social movement not only related to the drought of a piece of land also to its cultural and social consequences of it. These steps show our distance from nature, a distance from drought to the still-alive lake
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Photo by Mehdi Motevali

Gift By Tara & Atefeh