Agog: Last Research
+2 presents an Aidin Xankeshipour-curated exhibition titled 鈥淎gog: Last Research鈥�, with a selection of works by Shayan Shahabi, Saeideh Mighani, Mohammad Hossein Khatamifar, Mohaddeseh Taheri, Masoud Mirzaei, Fatima Faraji and Behnoush Haadi Irani.
The first 鈥淎gog鈥� exhibition was held in 2016 at Not Art Gallery in Tehran, in collaboration with Dastan, presenting the works of 27 artists. These exhibitions aim at introducing artists whose works have not seen the light of an 鈥渙fficial鈥� art space. Conceived by Aidin Xankeshipour and planned five years apart, "Agog" respond to a need to foreword new voices despite the qualitative and quantitative growths in art spaces in Iran.
What binds these artists together is not how or what they choose to work on, but way they see the process of creating a work. Avoiding trends and market mandates, what they all have in common is a tendency to dig deeper every day in what we can call "scenes of experimentation and learning"; not an academic one per se, but the will to understand the properties of their medium and to get closer to a vision with full attention to the process. Works of drawing, painting, and sculpture have found their way into "Agog: Last Research", occupying a place between being and becoming, a means to create meaning, a wholesome piece of art. Xankeshipour has followed these artists鈥� practices closely for the past 4 to 10 years.
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+2 presents an Aidin Xankeshipour-curated exhibition titled 鈥淎gog: Last Research鈥�, with a selection of works by Shayan Shahabi, Saeideh Mighani, Mohammad Hossein Khatamifar, Mohaddeseh Taheri, Masoud Mirzaei, Fatima Faraji and Behnoush Haadi Irani.
The first 鈥淎gog鈥� exhibition was held in 2016 at Not Art Gallery in Tehran, in collaboration with Dastan, presenting the works of 27 artists. These exhibitions aim at introducing artists whose works have not seen the light of an 鈥渙fficial鈥� art space. Conceived by Aidin Xankeshipour and planned five years apart, "Agog" respond to a need to foreword new voices despite the qualitative and quantitative growths in art spaces in Iran.
What binds these artists together is not how or what they choose to work on, but way they see the process of creating a work. Avoiding trends and market mandates, what they all have in common is a tendency to dig deeper every day in what we can call "scenes of experimentation and learning"; not an academic one per se, but the will to understand the properties of their medium and to get closer to a vision with full attention to the process. Works of drawing, painting, and sculpture have found their way into "Agog: Last Research", occupying a place between being and becoming, a means to create meaning, a wholesome piece of art. Xankeshipour has followed these artists鈥� practices closely for the past 4 to 10 years.
