Curator: Mahmoud Maktabi
Transylvanian Art Center|Sfintu Gheorghe
2015.21.07
The idea of this exhibition that was including the artworks of Iranian environmental artist in this ten years was given to me by Alpar Peter in Korea. We start to prepare this exhibition in the summer of 2014 and held it after one year in the summer of 2015. Selecting artworks took long time (about 9 month) because I wanted to be accurate, so I published a call for all the artists to let the younger artist to take part in this exhibition as well as the experienced artists.
My other goal was to help the experienced artists who had no international collaboration and this exhibition could helped them and the total Iranian environmental art movement to be raise up. So we decided with Alpar Peter to hold a workshop with Iranian and Transylvanian artists after the exhibition. Nooshin Nafisi, Mojtaba Ramzi, Atefeh Khas, Karim Allahkhani and Reyhane Omidghaemi (as the documenter) were Iranian participating artists and Mészáros Gergely, Szabó Réka, Tomcsik Judit, Toró Attila, Bartha Tünde, Péter Alpár, Szél Attila, Daczó Enikő, Damokos Csaba And Vajna Anna were the Transylvanian artist. (See the Poster of Living Space Project)
After the arrival to Bucharest in Romania we went to Olasztelek and Daniel castle who was our basic hostage and after spending two days there and visit some beautiful places we went to Santa George (another city) to hold the exhibition and lecture.
The photos for showing in the exhibition was printed before our arrival we installed them on the walls, and Karim and Mojtaba had two days for making their installations.
I did my lecture one day before opening and after that we had free discussion about Iranian contemporary art.
Before the Opening, we visited some Gallery and museum in Santa George. The Székely national museum was one of partner of Living space project that invited us to Romania. Also we visited one beautiful church-Castle in siebenbürgen of Transylvania that this type of church is especially for this part of Europe with a building in the center and castle in around for defend.
There were one performance by Atefeh Khas and the other one related to Kourosh Golnari artwork on the opening day and the exhibition was so welcomed by Transylvanians. This one was really something for me because after many years we had a serious international exhibition about Iranian environmental art. After that exhibition our friends held a party in Daniel castle with the presence of mayor and his wife. The renaissance dinner and dance was a very good ending for this exhibition.
After opening of living space exhibition some newspaper of Romania report about it.
You can see more picture in gallery:
