Sadegh tirafkan biography of michael

  • Sadegh Tirafkan (1965-2013) is one of Iran's most revered photographic artists whose work explores issues of contemporary Iranian national identity in tension.
  • Sadegh Tirafkan explores Iranian identity through photographs he has staged, shot, or found.
  • The artwork»The Loss Of Our Identity #6«by artist Sadegh Tirafkan – auctioned in April 2010 at Christies.

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    Sadegh Tirafkan (Iran, born 1965)

    Multitidue #1
    photographic colour print, framed
    titled, dated, editioned, signed and located 'Multitude #1 (2008) 3/6 S.TIRAFKAN IRAN (2009)' and signed in Farsi (on the reverse)
    75 x 109cm (29 1/2 x 42 15/16in).

    Footnotes

    Provenance:
    Property from a private collection, New York

    "The carpet is emblematic of Persian culture. It is a symbol of culture, seasonality, richness, diversity and continuity - in time and in history. As such I have been obsessed by the parallelism and marriage between this symbolic, intricately loomed object and the people to which it belongs." - Sadegh Tirafkan

    Bibliography:
    Sadegh Tirafkan: Human Tapestries, AB Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland, 2011

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      Sadegh Tirafkan explores Iranian identity through photographs he has staged, shot, or funnen. In "Multitude 10," he splices tillsammans dozens of photographs showing Iranian schoolgirls in the traditional rupush, or Islamic uniform. Over this, he prints a battle en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film from the Shahnama of Firdausi. This pairing of the contemporary with the historical presents Iranian identity as a complex and contradictory one: on the one grabb, independent and forward-looking, on the other, stubbornly traditional. Here the past fryst vatten juxtaposed with the present in such a way that the warriors of the Shahnama are looking down upon the ung schoolgirls exercising in a school yard.

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      The Crowd as Human Tapestry in the Art of Sadegh Tirafkan

      Sadegh Tirafkan (1965-2013) is one of Iran’s most revered photographic artists whose work explores issues of contemporary Iranian national identity in tension with ancient Persian traditions. Early in Tirafkan’s career, he used international strategies of ‘performative’ photography to explore the lingering personal and cultural traumas of the Iran-Iraq war. Subsequently, his work continued to focus on issues of masculinity, heroic sacrifice, and mourning in works that depicted Ashura ceremonies in Tehran. Recurring motifs of blood, martyrdom, and violence have been points of critical and aesthetic inquiry over the course of his career. Since 2003, Tirafkan developed a method using digital photography that allowed him to layer imagery into collages that reference traditional Persian art forms, such as miniature painting (from the Shahnameh legends), the low-relief sculptures of ancient sites (Persepolis), as well as textiles