Fereydoun Ave (born 1945; Persian: فریدون آو) is an Iranian art collector, curator, painter, and sculptor.[1][2]
Fereydoun Ave | |
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فریدون آو | |
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) Tehran, Pahlavi Iran, (now Iran) |
| Education | Arizona State University, New York University |
| Occupation(s) | Visual artist, curator, gallerist, art collector |
| Known for | Painting, graphic arts, printmaking, mixed media collage |
Early life
editAve was born in Tehran to a Zoroastrian family. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in England.[3] He received his BA degree in applied arts for theatre from Arizona State University (1964), studied film at New York University (1969), and attended the Semester at Sea (1964).[4]
Career
editAve began his career in theatre, as graphic designer, and sets, costumes, and lighting designer for productions at City Theater of Tehran since its establishment in 1971. He also worked as the gallery director at Zand Gallery in Tehran and Hayden-Zand Gallery in Washington State, USA.[2]
Over the past five decades, he has taken on many roles as an artist, designer, art director, collector, curator, gallerist, and art patron.
His preferred method, which he has employed in many of his works, involves making collages with traditional Persian fabrics and printed images, overlaid with nearly chaotic lines in paint. Due to his acquaintance and close association with Cy Twombly, Ave has sometimes drawn direct influence from this artist, a fact he readily acknowledges.
As an artist, some of Ave's works are housed in prestigious museums worldwide, including the British Museum,[5] the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art[6] in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[7] Victoria & Albert Museum,[8] and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.[9]
Solo exhibitions
editAve has had solo exhibitions in amongst other:[10]
- Large Works on Canvas, Plus 2, Tehran, 2024
- For Nowruz, Underground Dastan, Tehran, 2024
- Exhibition of Fereydoun Ave's Works, Fer Gallery, Tehran, 2023
- Some Seasons: Fereydoun Ave and the Laal Collection, 1959–2019, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, UAE[2]
- A Retrospective, Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan, 2018
- Homework, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2018
- Bouquet Series, Dastan +2 Gallery, Tehran, 2016
- Shah Abbas and His Servant, AB Gallery, Zurich, 2016
- Souvenirs, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, 2016
- Sources of Signs and Favorite Things, Sam Center, Tehran, 2015
- Postcards from Iranistan, Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015
- Warrior's Rest, Amirun Technis, Cyklades, 2014
- Four Seasons, Khak Gallery, Tehran, 2012
- Sacred Elements: Wind, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, 2010
- Radioactive Rostam, Janet Rady Gallery, London, 2010
- Rostam in the Deadly Winter Cold, B21 Gallery, Dubai, 2009
- Drawing Collection, Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, 1990
- Drawing Collection, Van der Straeten Gallery,Paris, 1990
- Drawing Collection, Fereideh Kado Gallery, Paris, 1978
- Collage Collection, Litho Gallery, Tehran, 1973
- Seven Amesha Spentas, Iran-America Society, Tehran, 1973
Bibliography
edit- Fereydoun Was Not an Angel: A Conversation with Fereydoun Ave, 2018 , Dastan publications
- Golestaneh, Ali (2012). Tehran Art: A Popular Revolution. Contemporary Art Publications. ISBN 9789948164746.
- Don Rubin, Ravi Chaturvedi (1994). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre; 1994
- Alternative Iran; Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice; Pamela Karimi, 2022, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9781503631816
- Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World; 2012, Brill, ISBN 9789047412076
- Urban Culture in Tehran, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini,2017, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 9783319655000
References
edit- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ a b c Farzin, Media (2023-11-01). "Grand Designs: The art of Fereydoun Ave". Artforum. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "فریدونِ آوِ طراح". نشریه نشان.
- ^ "فریدون آو - هنرمندان". آرتچارت (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ "drawing; print | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Fereydoun Ave | Rustam in the Dead of Winter, 2009". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Fereydoun Ave | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "V&A Museum". V&A Collection. 2016.
- ^ "فریدون آو و شقایق عربی؛ ریشههایی که بیریشگی را نمایش میدهند". BBC News فارسی. November 18, 2014.
- ^ "Fereydoun Ave | Darz". darz.art. Retrieved 2024-09-29.