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Mojdeh Tabatabaei — Director of Mojdeh Gallery and Founding Figure of the First Tehran Art Fair
Mojdeh Tabatabaei, Director of Mojdeh Gallery, emphasizes that over the past decade, art fairs have become the most powerful engines driving the global art market. According to her, statistics clearly show that regional countries, through a strategic and intelligent use of art fairs, have secured their position on the global cultural map. Iran, she notes, lacks nothing in terms of artistic capacity; it only needs a standardized infrastructure to reclaim its rightful share of the rapidly expanding cultural economy.
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6 Record-Making Masterpieces of Civilizational and Traditional Art at Baran Auction
In four editions of the Baran Auction — a specialized auction for calligraphy, Islamic art, and traditional civilizational works — many pieces have achieved remarkable records. Six such works are introduced in this article.
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UAE National Day and the Painting of Mehrdad Fallah
In this mixed-media work, Mehrdad Fallah presents a contemporary visual narrative of the UAE’s national identity through an eloquent interplay of color, texture, composition, and symbolic form. The presence of gold—applied with genuine gold leaf—emerges like a sacred radiance against the textured background, a luminosity that unmistakably conveys notions of grandeur, prosperity, and flourishing. It reflects today’s UAE as a young yet powerful and internationally recognized nation.
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UAE National Day and the Painting of Roshanak Sattari
Roshanak Sattari’s painting Awakened Time positions itself, both conceptually and structurally, in a dialogue between Modernism and Postmodernism—where the city is no longer a purely physical landscape but a geography of memory and collective consciousness. The symbolism of the clock and the watchful eyes continues the historical tradition of using emblems of power, time, and surveillance. Meanwhile, the modern architecture and nocturnal execution align the work with contemporary urban painting, while the use of artificial light and atmospheric reflections connects it to the light-based art of the past century.
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Video: Vesta Color at Tehran Design Week — a strong presence with live painting performances
The Vesta Color installation — featuring the brand’s full range of materials — attracted significant attention from artists, art students, and art enthusiasts, resulting in exceptionally busy evenings throughout Design Week.