{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-blogposting-english_article-79220","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com/english-articles/why-we-cant-have-contemporary-art-iman-afsarian/","name":"Why We Can’t Have “Contemporary” Art / Iman Afsarian","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://s.herfeh-honarmand.com/u/2022/07/\u0686\u0644\u06cc\u067e\u0627-200x200.jpg","name":"Kazem Chalipa – Resistance","width":200},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-webpage-english-articleswhy-we-cant-have-contemporary-art-iman-afsarian"},"description":"\u201cThe pulse of contemporary art is fortunately beating at the same rhythm in Iran today as it is in developed countries… We now have contemporary and avant-garde artists who are busy creating new media, such as digital art, just like what is being done from a technical perspective in other places such as London and […]","author":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-organization-brand","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"herfeh-honarmand.com-organization-brand","url":"https://herfeh-honarmand.com","name":"\u062d\u0631\u0641\u0647: \u0647\u0646\u0631\u0645\u0646\u062f"},"commentCount":"0","datePublished":"2022-07-03 14:48:24","dateModified":"2024-05-15 08:58:18","keywords":["Iranian Contemporary Art"],"dateCreated":"2022-07-03 14:48:24","wordCount":0,"articleBody":"\n\u201cThe pulse of contemporary art is fortunately beating at the same rhythm in Iran today as it is in developed countries... We now have contemporary and avant-garde artists who are busy creating new media, such as digital art, just like what is being done from a technical perspective in other places such as London and New York.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cWith the overture experienced in recent years, our artists have been able to be present in the international scene and, ten years on, Iranian art has become the most contemporary form of art in the entire region. In international arenas where the contemporary art of the Middle East is discussed, Iranians are often among the most contemporary.\u201d\n\n\n\nAlireza Sami Azar\n\n\n\nOur experience in the new era has been one of backwardness; there is a kind of awareness that tells us that time \u2018here\u2019 is behind time \u2018there\u2019. This sense of slumber transforms any search for a solution into a desperate struggle to make up for the lag we experience. Since the 1950s, when this distance became ever more palpable, it seems as if we have reached the conclusion that this lag cannot be compensated at the prior pace. In the 1960s, and in his first speech as the Dean of the University of Fine Arts, Mohammad Amin Fendereski clearly expresses the anxiety that stems from this confrontation between fast and slow: \u201cFrom this day forward, we shall dismount the camel and take flight with the Concorde.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArash Hanaei - Untitled from the Capital Series - 2008-15\n\n\n\nTherefore, a new era has begun in which our awareness of the times \u2018there\u2019 is constantly \u201cupdating\u201d visual arts \u2018here\u2019, albeit with a delay of at least thirty years which seems ever so irreversible, thus deluding us to think that \u201cthe pulse of art here beats to the rhythm there\u201d; however, after some decades, this seems to be far from the reality. Forget the Concorde, not even the internet has been able to synchronize the creation of art \u2018there\u2019 and \u2018here\u2019. 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