Mitra Tabrizian, City, London,2008, C-type photographic print, 122x250 cm, Ed. 4/5
MITRA TABRIZIAN
11-02-2011 |25-03-2011
Opening 10- 02- 2011 | 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
PROJECTB Via Borgonuovo 3 | 20121 Milan
ProjectB presenta la prima mostra personale in Italia di Mitra Tabrizian.
Nata a Teheran, Iran, vive e lavora a Londra; il lavoro di Mitra Tabrizian è interessato a quello che potremmo chiamare la 'crisi della cultura contemporanea'; dal recente crollo finanziario in Occidente, alle realtà instabili della vita nell’Iran post-rivoluzionario in Oriente.
La mostradiMilanocomprendefotografiecherappresentanola ricercaartistica di MitraTabriziandal2000finoad oggi. Combinandotecniche documentaristichea quelle cinematografiche, espessoconcentrandosisulla gente comune, realizza, meticolosamente, tableauxfotograficidensi di narrazione.
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Scattata presso lasede diJP Morganeraffigurantebanchieri, City, London2008alludealla attualecrisi economica- immagine sceltaper lacopertina delcatalogodellagrande mostra, '21stCentury: Artnelprimo decennio' presso laQueenslandArtGallery/Galleria d'Arte Moderna, in Queensland, Australia. Mentre inSilentMajority2001 - 2002, ferma con uno scatto da candid camera passanti alla stazione diCanaryWharfnella CitydiLondra, ignari dell’obiettivo, tuttitroppocoinvoltidalla frenesia dellavita moderna.
Tra le sue mostre recenti: 2010 Twenty-First Century', National Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia; 2009 Iran, inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, NY; The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, Andy Warhol Museum N.Y; Theatre of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (June-Sept.); 2008, Solo show Tate Britain, London; 2006 Solo show, Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini di Castello, Italy.
Lista opere
Teheran 2006 C –type light jet print 101x302 cm
Border Project 2005 – 2006 1. The long wait, C-type stampa fotografica, 122x153 cm; 2. Road to nowhere, C-type stampa fotografica, 122x153 cm; 3. Deadly affair, C-type stampa fotografica, 122x153 cm
Silent Majority C –type light jet print, 122x214 cm
From the series ‘Beyond the Limits’, C-type stampa fotografica 122x162cm
City London 2008 122x250cm, C-type stampa fotografica
ProjectB presents the first solo exhibition in Italy of Mitra Tabrizian.
Born in Tehran, Iran, currently live and works in London, Mitra Tabrizian’s work is concerned with what we might call the ‘crisis of contemporary culture’; from the recent financial collapse in the West, to the shifting realities of life in post-revolutionary Iran in the East.
The exhibition in Milan comprises photographs that represent Mitra Tabrizian’s artistic quest from 2000 up to the present time. Combining documentary techniques with those of film, and often focusing on ordinary people, she makes elaborate, meticulously staged photographic tableaux containing condensed narratives
The series Border 2005 -2006 aim to reproduce the statelessness feeling of living ‘in between’ of Iranians in exile: at first sight the photographs appear to have been taken in Iran whereas they are actually shot in Uk.
Tehran 2006, focuses on the reality of everyday life and the ordinary in extraordinary times. All the characters ‘play’ themselves: the crowd is a mixture of people who are struggling and living on the edge; a taxi driver, factory worker, builder, cleaner, dress-maker, servant etc..
The series Beyond the Limits, 2000- 2001 (also the title of the first monograph on Mitra Tabrizian published in 2004) is a mise en scène of an imminent disaster in which an apparently perfect society is unmasked to reveal the anxiety behind the illusion, and the violence of survival within corporate culture
Shot at the headquarters of JP Morgan and depicting actual bankers, City, London 2008 alludes to the current economic crisis – an image chosen for the cover of the catalogue of the major exhibition; “21st Century: Art in the first decade” at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Australia. In Silent Majority 2001 - 2002, candid-camera shots at Canary Wharf station in the City of London, taken without anyone noticing, everyone too caught up in the pace of modern life!
Her exhibitions include: 2010 Twenty-First Century', National Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia; 2009 Iran, inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, NY; The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, Andy Warhol Museum N.Y; Theatre of the Real, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (June-Sept.); 2008, Solo show Tate Britain, London; 2006 Solo show, Moderna Mussset (Museum of Modern art) Stockholm, Sweden10th Venice Biennale of architecture, Italian Pavilion Giardini di Castello, Italy.
Works exhibited
Teheran 2006 C –type light jet print 101x302 cm
Border Project 2005 – 2006 1. The long wait, C-type photographic print, 122x153 cm; 2. Road to nowhere, C-type photographic print, 122x153 cm; 3. Deadly affair, C-type photographic print, 122x153 cm
Silent Majority C –type light jet print, 122x214 cm
From the series ‘Beyond the Limits’, C-type photographic print 122x162cm
City London 2008 122x250cm, C-type photographic print