Outsider Art Under the Crescent Moon - Iran

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A Brief Topogrpahy of West Eastern Imagery and Iranian Contemporary Art
Bernd Fechner, Hannah Jacobi

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Bernd Fechner, Hannah Jacobi, “A Brief Topogrpahy of West Eastern Imagery and Iranian Contemporary Art”, in: exh. cat. *Outsider Art Under the Crescent Moon – Iran* (St. Gallen: Open Art Museum, 2023). Cover image.

Download the PDF file of the text in German and English

mohit.art initiators Bernd Fechner and Hannah Jacobi published on the occasion of the exhibition Outsider Art under the Crecent Moon at Open Art Museum, St. Gallen, the text a “A Brief Topography of West-Eastern Imagery and Iranian Contemporary Art.” Now available for free as Pdf file in German and English, with the kind permission of Open Art Museum (you can order a print copy of the brochure here ).

Outline:

Paintings as Symbolic Form
The Western Gaze
The Orient and Its European “Islamization”
The Influence of Western Modernism on Art
The Iranian Art Context and Colonial Discourse Supremacy
Art and Politics
Areas of Contact
Woman, Life, Freedom

Raana Farnoud, Untitled, from The Flowers of Boredom series,2018. — © Courtesy of Emkan Gallery, Tehran — Raana Farnoud, *Untitled*, from *The Flowers of Boredom* series, 2018. Courtesy of Emkan Gallery, Tehran

Bernd Fechner, Hannah Jacobi, “A Brief Topography of West Eastern Imagery and Iranian Contemporary Art,” in: exh. cat. Outsider Art Under the Crescent Moon – Iran (St. Gallen: Open Art Museum, 2023); published on www.mohit.art, September 14, 2023.